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Subject: Migrating older Poser libraries into Poser 8

Zoxesyr opened this issue on Oct 07, 2011 · 9 posts
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Zoxesyr ( ) posted Fri, 07 October 2011 at 6:53 PM · edited Fri, 31 January 2025 at 9:55 PM

i have poser 8 on my new machine, and poser 7 on my old machine.  I want to move the libraries that I have on the old machine to poser 8. 

Can anyone link me to a tutorial on this?  The directions on Smith Micro site are pretty confusing to me.

Thanks in advance for any help.

bagginsbill ( ) posted Fri, 07 October 2011 at 7:29 PM · edited Fri, 07 October 2011 at 7:30 PM

Don't copy them into Poser 8. You can copy them onto the new machine, but keep them separate.

Then in Poser 8 add each by clicking the add library button and then choose the folder above "runtime". Never select "Runtime" when adding a library.

You choose the folder above it - which should have unique a name. That's the name that shows up in the library GUI.

 

 

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Zoxesyr ( ) posted Fri, 07 October 2011 at 10:46 PM

bagginsbill - thanks for the tip, that worked. 

Now, how do I remove the libraries I copied into the "//Smith Micro/" folder?

bagginsbill ( ) posted Sat, 08 October 2011 at 12:08 AM

Hahah. I am sad I did this because it is not obvious.

When you want to remove a library you have to first  make it the only library shown.

To do this, select, next to "Show: "  the pulldown choice for the library you want to remove.

This will cause a second button to appear - a remove library button.

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Zoxesyr ( ) posted Sat, 08 October 2011 at 12:38 AM

I want to delete the 3 gig of old files I cut-and-pasted into the smithmicro folder before I knew that wouldn't work.  Basically they are duplicates of the ones I just created.  The first set of files don't appear in the poser libraries.

estherau ( ) posted Sun, 09 October 2011 at 6:10 AM

semidieu has python scripts that can instantly attach all your external runtimes or remove them.  Maybe IM him at runtimedna.com

Haven't got a link though.

The BB is only okay if you have a few external runtimes. If you have many then you really need the python script.

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bagginsbill ( ) posted Sun, 09 October 2011 at 7:57 AM

Esther, Zoxesyr is saying something different in that last post, for which I have no answer.

"I want to delete ... files I cut-and-pasted into the smithmicro folder"

He (she?) merged a bunch of crap into the main runtime, mixing it all up. Now how to find and remove it - no way that I know without writing a custom program to take a list of files from the standard install, and remove everything that isn't in that list.

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estherau ( ) posted Sun, 09 October 2011 at 8:06 AM

yes, that happened to me when I first started poser and that runtime never recovered.

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Zoxesyr ( ) posted Mon, 10 October 2011 at 6:19 PM

Quote - He (she?) merged a bunch of crap into the main runtime, mixing it all up. Now how to find and remove it - no way that I know without writing a custom program...

Yes, basically that's the answer to my question.

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