First off, I've worked with Poser since 1998.  I have 110 GBs of runtimes.  I totalling messed up my primary system (Who's boot drive only has 200 gb) with Poser.  I'm having a friend fix this cuz he has the resources that I don't.  What I want to do is run all my runtimes on an external drive and I already have PP2010 on an external 1T drive.

Here is the potential nightmare I see.  I know that Poser uses absolute paths to refer it's locations in library files.  I've created a library of custom characters that I plan to use ... all refers to the c drive with a particular path.  Once migrated it won't only be a totally different path, but on a different operating system. 

Will PO3d help?  Are there utilities out that that will lessen the nightmare?  I have a little over a week before I get my system back.  I'm running off a laptop at the moment with PP2010 running off the 1T external drive.  I only have the content of PP2010 plus a few items I've downloaed.  I don't want to reload Vicki etc. and duplicate content ... that would just complicate things even more.  I'm finding it hard to create images without having access to the content I've depended on all these years. LOL, I'm such a Poser addict.

All advice would be grately appreciated. :)

Boni

You are mistaken. I have moved my V4 and other libraries several times across multiple machines with no issues. edit: Paths saved for your own custom things may be absolute if they were saved from some old Poser, but 2010 saves relative paths.

Oh, BB, master of Poser! Thank you for answering.  That is so good to know.  Unfortunately I only recently recieved PP2010 ... which is why it is on the external 1T drive.  All other runtimes are from P4-P6 ... all 110BG of them.  That is why I'm a bit concerned.  They all resided on a boot drive, C of course and an XP os.  I've upgraded to W7 and do not plan on putting the runtimes back on the C drive.  Once I make sure P2010 can find them the search will be relative? Even to all the other runtimes?  Excuse me if my questions are redundent or confusing.  I just need clarification to be sure I know what I'm doing when I get my system and other external drive back (where all my runtimes will be) I'll be switching my P2010 to whichever external drive will be most convienient.

This is sooooo helpful!  I hope this helps other users as well.  I'll be having matterial room questions for you soon. ;)

Sincerely

Boni

Boni, al of my content is stored on an external drive (I have, at last count, 47 different runtimes based on what they are and where they came from, totalling over 150 Gb of stuff).

My PP 2010 has no problems accessing them just by adding them to the library structure like we did with previous versions of Poser.  In fact, my PP2010 resides on a different drive (a 1.5 TB drive partitioned out for my 3D programs along with my 2D editing programs and my Texture resources.

Wow! thanks a lot!  Whew.  This will be easier than I thought! (if Wael can salvage all my runtimes from my "bad" of overloading the HD). Again thank you, BB and Victoria_Lee!

Boni