ghostship2 posted at 10:28AM Mon, 02 November 2020 - #4402455

@azath pass that doobie my brother because you are high. I have done every update since 11 came out and NEVER had to re-install the software from scratch. I never even changed my preffs.

I move my content and prefs to the side (well, I duplicate the prefs and move the content). Because I've encountered a bug in the Mac installer, that uses bash script and when it installs the content folder into place it does a mv, no prompt which will clobber an old folder if it's there. This bug remained for many versions. Have lost (on 2 computers) my runtime (40GB, de-duped) more than once. I tailed the log file to confirm the clobber, and located the line in the install script that did it. Filed a bug. Got a "no, it doesn't do that" from support. Bug, the logfile says it did. The script does it. The result is that it did. Gave up on SM Support at after that happened the second time..

Lesson: I keep my runtimes in a different path. They are sync'd between my 2 dev machines. And a backup sync to a server.

The 11.3.818 update did, in fact, delete my !/Library/Application Support/Poser Pro/11 directory. i noticed this on one machine but retrieved it from the other. When I upgraded the other, I duplicated the directory. Sure enough, /11 was gone. I just renamed the duplicate back and all good.

Also, if you have something in the python startup (avfiz, for me), that's blown away as well. Again, retrieved from un-upgraded machine.

It's only paranoia if you're not right.