I've asked a couple of related questions on the "June POSER Sale Continues - Upgrades now added" thread in the Community Centre forum. In response TinaK has said that it's digital download only, downloads will be from the SM site, and they should be available indefinitely - provided you have your registration key.

The new 'download manager' seems to be a change at SM (check their 'upgrades' page here http://poser.smithmicro.com/poser10-poserpro2014/#upgrade where it says...

"*Serial Number Required. After purchase, you will receive a link to download the Smith Micro Download Manager. Once this small utility is installed on your computer, the Download Manager will let you manage the download of your Poser application installer as well as all support and content installer files. You will be able to select from the full set of Poser installers for the version you've purchased, monitor download progress, pause and resume your download, designate where you'd like the installers saved on your computer, and launch your Poser installation. "

...so I guess that even if you bought digital download direct from SM you'd still have the same issue PAnn's talking about.

(P.S. I'd guess that the17.46MB download is the Smith Micro Download Manager?)

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The 3Dcheapskate* occasionally posts sensible stuff. Usually by accident.
And it usually uses Poser 11, with units set to inches. Except when it's using Poser 6 or PP2014, or when its units are set to PNU.

*also available in ShareCG, DAZ, and HiveWire3D flavours (the DeviantArt and CGBytes flavour have been discontinued).