windracer opened this issue on Mar 16, 2012 · 185 posts
moriador posted Mon, 09 April 2012 at 1:08 AM
Quote - Okay... if I create a folder and name the folder Poser Content and then place the folder in my Documents, would that folder be placed in the correct area or should it be placed on the Desktop?
You can put that folder anywhere you want. You can put it on another drive, you can put it on a USB stick, you can put it on an external drive. You can create a really big and complicated file tree and place it there. It's entirely up to you.
It's not wise, in Vista and Windows 7, to place it in the Program Files directory because User Account Controls in these versions of windows restrict what can be saved in this directory for security reasons. You can override these restrictions, but in the end it is much simpler just to locate your Poser Content folder anywhere else. :)
My Documents would be a fine place. I do not, myself, place content files on the Desktop as I have heard that having a great many files on the desktop can slow down the loading of the desktop (when the system reboots). And runtimes get very, very big indeed. I place them on my root drive at C:/Poser Content/People or C:/Poser Content/Animals and so on. You can name the directory anything you want. And you can have more than one directory. I have about 12.
But again, inside My Documents is fine. As long as you do not move this folder, it's fine, and it will be easy to find.
Once you've made this directory/folder, move the "Runtime" folders that are inside the extracted zip files into this directory/folder. (I move the documentation and the readme's as well).
Then in Poser, when you link to the folder, link to the main directory you created (not the folder called "runtime". In my case, I would link to a folder located at C:/Poser Content/ People (for my people purchases). For my animal purchases, I would link to "C:/Poser Content/Animals"
I would not link to "C:/Poser Content/People/Runtime".
If you only wanted to have one directory (only one "runtime" as we call it), you would move all the runtimes from all of your purchases into one main directory. So it would look more like C:/Poser Content/Runtime. But you would tell Poser to link to the main directory "C:/Poser Content".
Does that make sense?
PoserPro 2014, PS CS5.5 Ext, Nikon D300. Win 8, i7-4770 @ 3.4 GHz, AMD Radeon 8570, 12 GB RAM.