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I am running out of space on my existing HD, i have 6GB of poser stuff in my poser directory and plan to buy a bigger hd to dedicate it to poser. What is the best way to transfer all the data to the new drive? Can i just copy all the files to the new one or will the registry need changed for all the files (major pain)? Will that work or do i have to uninstall Poser first then reinstall to new HD and will the files i have in my original folders all be lost in the uninstall process? thanks rodpanther

rodpanther - without warranty ... 1. Install your new HD 2. Copy all Poser Files to new HD (i.e. :tmpPoser4*) 3. Uninstall Poser 4. Install Poser to new HD 5. Copy all :tmpPoser4* to the new Poser4-Directory (Override exiting files) 6. Check if Poser is running fine with all your files if so - delete c:tmpPoser4* if not - sorry, but ... good luck egru

Here's what I've done in the past (but not with poser) 1. Back-up your registry. 2. COPY all the files to your new drive. 3. Using regedit, or preferrably some other reg utility that handles global search and replace, change your drive letter. 4. Test 5. Delete files on old drive. With Poser, I thought I'd get lazy and use MagicMover. It changed the case of my directories. Obviously not a good thing with Poser. Good luck.

Power Quest has a utility called magic mover. They also have it free if you buy Partition Magic. you would install the new drive as a slave to the old one. (your system will be a bit faster putting the OS and programs on separate drives) then run magic mover. it takes care of all your ini file and registry issues We're talking PC here right?

Hi rodpanther ! Don't worry - just drag'n drop your poser directory from its old postion to the new one. That's it ! Just don't change any directory structure under the main poser dir, e.g. c:ProgramsCuriosLabsPoser 4 No gararantees for the ProPack or on the Mac, I garantee it works witch any Microsoft OS and Poser 4.03 Cheers, Arthur.

I have poser 4 and the propack so i will give it a try and thank you so much for the help :) rodpanther

couldn't one just put everything (libraries/geometries, etc...) on a cd and then reload them (copy/paste) into Poser on the new drive from the cd after reinstalling the program onto the new drive first?

Just a thought..... I use a 2nd drive for my programs and use 1st drive (C) for operating/system stuff only. Not long ago my 1st drive crashed and I had to reformat it and reload operating/system programs back onto it. Thinking I would have to reinstall poser for the registry issues, I took a chance and started poser, It worked fine. Bryce also did the same. I don't know if this is because of them being on a 2nd drive or not. Upon doing a registry search, the only associations to poser are for winzip, rederosity poser forum, and adobe reader. I am not sure if this is a bug in the program design or not, but I did have to reinstall photoshop because it did look for and need some registry inputs. Hope this helps. TMG

Funny you'd ask this right now. I spent yesterday doing exactly this, as I just installed a scsi drive on my machine. What egru suggests worked perfectly for me, using Windows (shouldn't matter which version). Copy (not move) all your Runtime folders to a temp location on the new drive, folder by folder is best, because sometimes a huge move will time out. Uninstall/reinstall/patch Poser. The uninstall should not (didn't for me) delete stuff you put in the Runtime folder yourself, so you have a backup. Replace the existing runtime folders with the copied ones. If you copied them to the new drive instead of CD or another drive, it'll only have to change the "pointer" in the File allocation table, not copy the files, so this will be really fast. Open Poser and test random things to make sure it's working. Clean up your old drive. There will still be a Program Files/Curious Labs/Poser directory with tons o' stuff. You can save it until you're sure everything got copied, or go ahead and delete it--your call. Good luck GrayMare

As said, you should just be able to move it all around. Messing with the registry doesn't matter since it doesn't even look at the registry. I know that because I have Poser installed in 98se, but I boot almost exclusively in 2000 and never bothered to install it in 2000. I just run it from my other drive and it works fine. It's not a picky program, so you can move it around and such and so forth, and so long as you don't leave things behind or change the directory structure, it'll be happy and work. :) And I thought my directory was bloated at a little over a gig...but six? Wow! :D

Jeeez i was sooooooooo wrong its not 6GB, its this LOL (God im such an addicted Scotsman) :) rodpanther

Damn, that's even more frightening. That's pretty much 8 gigs. Um...damn! Now I'm curious...how much of that do you normally use in your various scenes?