Dr Zik opened this issue on Sep 18, 2001 ยท 10 posts
MartinC posted Wed, 19 September 2001 at 3:15 AM
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The only Mac tool that might reduce the problem indeed is Macinstaller, although it can't help the fact that the files *must* be somewhere, as stated above... Some people got a bit confused by it (sorry for that...), mainly because of a simple misunderstanding - it will *not* modify/extract your existing Runtime, it only ever affects new installings done with it *afterwards*. In other words: If your Runtime already is big, crowded and chaotic then it won't help you much, but if you ever start from scratch with a clean Poser install, you may consider using it. It basically offers two alternatives to classic Runtime: 1) You can install into a new ExtraRuntime folder, which keeps your custom files and Poser's default ones completely separate. Pro: You only have one single folder with all your add-ons, and re-installing Poser becomes a 1 minute task - I personally couldn't live without this. Con: If you have 5 gigs of custom files, you will get a 5 gig ExtraRuntime folder. 2) You can set Macinstaller to *leave* all files at their source locations, even across various volumes and disks if you like. Pro: You can distribute your file sizes across disks. Con: If you ever re-install Poser you are back to manual re-installing of all custom files just like you've been if you put everything into Runtime. If you have any specific problems with Macinstaller, please don't hesitate to contact me directly. Cheers, MartinC