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I just completed your survey. I'd like to say thank you again for Maconverter. It's not only invaluable, but a pleasure to use. =) I haven't yet tried Macinstaller, and it's time to fix that. Here's why I hesitate: I've got 3 Poser folders installed (4.02, 4.0 and 4.0 w/ some/most/maybe all the Metacreations installed stuff removed) with both duplications and differences in the Runtime folders. I'd like to just drag and drop all three onto (maybe Macinstaller) and have it sort them together, but it's Gigabytes of stuff and I'm not sure it's the best approach. What's the best strategy? TIA

This is a bit tricky, and I'm aware that Macinstaller is currently a bit poor with multiple Posers. It only accepts one Poser at a time and needs to restart after you select "Change Poser". This will be improved (hopefully) soon by allowing you to switch Poser "on the fly". I was working on it for a long time (the idea is as old as Maconverter when I tried to look for a better Texture fix than just removing), and the 4.0.2 betas arrived when it was already designed. So it is just not prepared to handle multiple Runtimes, and I suppose that 4.0.2 becomes final (and makes 4.0/4.0.1 obsolete) before I could finish this major change. For your custom installations there is a good solution: Choose "Source Folder" as Destination for both Libraries and Geometries, and "Source" for Textures in the main popup as default. This way you can keep just one copy of each file where it is (anywhere on your disk(s), you can even split it up on various places), and only minimal data will be copied to the Runtimes. You can turn off "4.0/4.0.1 compatibility" if you have separate folders for 4.0 and 4.0.2 and save some more space. The only disadvantage will be the need to install everything 2-3 times (with the annoying Poser change in between), but (once again) Macinstaller was designed to address only one Poser at a time, with an easy handling of upgrading/re-installing one Poser, not multiple ones at the same time.

continued... Alternatively, if you don't need to install everything everywhere at the same time (eg if you only work with one version for hours), there is a better solution: Start with Poser 4.0.2, turn 4.0/4.0.1 compatibility on, and choose "ExtraRuntime" as Destination for both Libraries and Geometries, "Source" for Textures in the main popup as default. Whenever you switch Poser, drag the entire ExtraRuntime folder into the new Poser folder, choose the new Poser in Macinstaller, and select the command "Register ExtraRuntime". Within seconds all of your custom stuff is recognized.

Thanks for mapping this out. I understand that I'm trying something the program wasn't intended to do. It's not like I use the 2nd and 3rd installs, they're just there. I guess I'll jump in and make it happen. Thanks again for your time.

If you only have one active Poser folder (and the other ones merely for reference), then definitely go for the ExtraRuntime model. Best start one last time with a clean installed Runtime, and then just add everything into ExtraRuntime. Whenever you have to switch, drag it into the new folder and select "Register", that's all. This is exactly what I'm doing - I now have a nice growing pile of 7 CD-R's containing different Poser version folders, and whenever I exchange my current one, it takes less than a minute for Macinstaller to get my tons of custom stuff recognized as it was before.