I'm setting up a new Mac. I have a number of Runtimes on a PC with a number of installed products. Can I just copy the Runtimes over to the Mac without having to reinstall all the products? Thanks for the help. Dan

Yes :-)

I have all my Runtimes on an external drive and I use it on both my PC and Mac :-)

Quote - Can I just copy the Runtimes over to the Mac without having to reinstall all the products?

Yes for all but the main Poser Runtime which requires some care. Also don't get rid of the PC installers for any old stuff from DAZ as the old MacOS installers won't run on modern machines (meaning the simplest thing to do is install on a PC and transfer).

Perfect!! I like the external drive idea.

Thanks for your replies. Mac coming today!!

Dan

Have you got much stuff in your main poser runtime Dan?  You could just make that another external runtime of your new poser if you re-lable it I suppose, but you will have to reinstall all your python scripts I think if you have any.

Love esther

I have about 7 gigs so far. I did try to move my runtimes to an external drive. These runtimes were installed on Windows. My Windows version of Poser sees them fine (in Bootcamp), but when I try to load them on my Mac version, it doesn't see them (shows "0" in the library window). The external drive is formatted as ExFAT.

This is on Poser Pro 2010.

Dan

Hi, I think it would be best to connect up a mac formatted external hard drive (mac os extended journaled I think) and then copy your windows runtimes onto that drive.  I think your PC will still be able to see the things on that drive. If not, I have a solution if you really want to use both PC and mac poser.

If you are happy with your mac poser you could just do the above anyway.

Love esther

You know, the only real reason I'm doing this is that if the runtime content doesn't have an installer, you need to manually copy over all the appropriate support files (objects, textures, etc.). With Windows, you can just drag and drop, and it will take care of merging.

On a Mac, it will replace the folders without doing the merge, so existing stuff gets deleted. Or am I doing things wrong??

Thanks for your help!

Dan

you are correct.  Drag and drop replaces folders on the mac.  Lucky you noticed that hey!

well I use a utility called ditto to  merge folders together. I got it from Kaveman who is a member here.

I drop one folder into one side of the ditto window and then I drop the other folder into the opposite side of the ditto window and hit the word ditto and instant merging.

Love esther

PS try reformatting an external drive for mac and copying your windows files over.

Re Mac installers - there are some old bits and bobs from Daz I got recently which I couldn't open on my present G5 (PowerMac). Went back to an old pre-OSX Mac, opened them on there and then moved the files across.

Yeah, unfortunately at this stage with DAZ phasing out older products, anything with an outdated Mac installer won't be getting an updated one at this point.

As suggested by others, there is no harm in using the same Runtime you are using right now on your Mac.