checked.  Not in the unemptied trash.  not renamed.  not hidden.

Yes, I've searched for it.

i used "find" starting from the root.  It's nowhere.  And my filesystem reads 35GB more space after the installation (I checked, to make sure there was sufficient space for both content directories).  That means the OS has freed the disk space.  35GB was the size of my old content :(

I just unzipped the install.log

postinstall goes through my entire content directory, file by file.

Sep 23 07:41:46 Oz installd[39969]: ./postinstall: /Users/Shared/Poser Content/Downloads/Runtime/Textures/vyktohria/DynamicTee

Sep 23 07:41:46 Oz installd[39969]: *** process 39969 exceeded 500 log message per second limit - remaining messages this second discarded ***

Finally gets to:

Sep 23 07:41:59 Oz installd[39969]: PackageKit: Executing script "./postinstall" in /private/tmp/PKInstallSandbox.RIcQpP/Scripts/com.SmithMicro.PoserContent.ProContent.pkg.QubRKf

Sep 23 07:41:59 Oz installd[39969]: ./postinstall: /Applications/Poser Pro 2012/Runtime/prefs/Default Poser Prefs

Sep 23 07:41:59 Oz installd[39969]: ./postinstall: reading content root path

Sep 23 07:41:59 Oz installd[39969]: ./postinstall: CONTENT_ROOT_PATH is: /Users/Shared/Poser Pro 2012 Content

Sep 23 07:41:59 Oz installd[39969]: ./postinstall: /Users/Shared

Sep 23 07:41:59 Oz installd[39969]: ./postinstall: /Users/Shared/Poser Pro 2012 Content

Sep 23 07:41:59 Oz installd[39969]: ./postinstall: >>> Copying /Users/Shared/Poser Content

Sep 23 07:41:59 Oz installd[39969]: ./postinstall: ditto: can't get real path for source

Sep 23 07:41:59 Oz installd[39969]: ./postinstall: rm: /Users/Shared/Poser Content: No such file or directory

My fear is that they copied everything from /Poser Content to /Poser Pro 2012 Content, RM'd that directory, and THEN copied the new files from temp directory into the same directory structure, including the directorties.  Unix doesn't merge directories, it replaces them.  That's why you can't drop content that's just a "runtime" dir structure onto the existing runtime on MAC.  You have to use something like RSRConv that merges the files into existing directory.

Hard to tell, I don't have the listing for the postinstall script.  If I had it, I could see what it's doing in short order.

they are NOT.  I'm looking at the file system, not Poser.  The old content directory is gone.  not hidden, not renamed.  Gone.

My contents was setup as follows:

/Users/Shared/Poser Content

The installer told me it was putting the content into /System.  I did not want it there.  I wanted /Users/Shared/Poser Pro 2012 Content.  So I selected Shared as the target.  And, indeed, it created the directory.  But my old directory is gone.  I'm pretty sure I didn't delete it myself.  I checked my trash, and lots of other files are there which i deleted PRIOR to the installation (including bits from the old Poser Content directory).  However, the Poser Content directory is NOT there.  So I did not delete it accidentally using the GUI - it would be in the unemptied trash.  I would have to rm -Rf /Users/Shared/Poser Content to "accidentally" remove it at the command line.  I can't see doing that by mistake.  Something is seriously messed up.

Looking through the info the installer leaves in syslog, (which is not very verbose, for an install log) I can see the call to cmod permissions on the new content directory.  But not really any other information.  Poor installation logging  Every single step should be in syslog.

In fact, my file system reads 35GB more space after the installer running.  I had 64GB free prior to installation, 99GB free after installation.  So the 35GB disappeared then.

So, I'll have to restore from my last sync (thank GOD I backup).  It'll take a while to copy 35GB back over.

My installation completely destroyed my current runtime (on separate volume: /Users/Shared)

I started off with a /Users/Shared/Poser Content

After installation, that directory is now gone and I have 

/Users/Sahred/Poser Pro 2012 Content

It seems to have some of the stuff that was in my previous directory but is missing tons of stuff (most notably, all the Daz stuff.)

In every way, a complete disaster.

I have a mostly sync'd runtime on my desktop, I can use to rebuild the wreckage.  But I can't  believe that the installer would DELETE my previous runtime.

OMG!

My runtime was totally destroyed.

Some sort of cruel joke????

The installer DELETED my existing runtime.

WTF kind of installer program DELETES existing user modified data???????

Mac running Snow Leopard.

Am I the only one who thinks the upgrade pricing/policy is messed up?

Poser 4 -> poser 8       $129
Poser 5 -> poser 8       $129
Poser 6 -> poser 8       $129
Poser 7 -> poser 8       $129
Poser Pro -> poser 8   $129

I've been using poser since 4, have upgraded 3 times and purchased full retail twice (since sales had the retail cheaper than the upgrade - smooth marketing).

After all that money and continued disappointment on features and stability I still have to pay full upgrade cost to "backgrade" to a non-pro track with the promise that the cost will be deducted when I move back over to the pro track that comes later?  That's cold.

Pro was pretty disappointing (on my monster 8 core mac pro, at least).  The rendering engine speed increase between p7 and pp was anemic.  The only feature I wanted was a rendering engine that would actually use the hardware in my single machine.  It would have been nice if it would use the other cores scattered around the house but it doesn't even take advantage of the 8 in the machine.  Content?  I buy or make content.  I wouldn't care if posert came with NO content.

I dunno, for me the pro line was a waste.  Especially the way they're treated as two different programs instead of feature sets of the same program.

Talk about non-professional...

Sorry, just venting.  I get so sick of all the software companies begging every few quarters for yet another upgrade, this time with some of the features you wanted 4 years ago, and some of the 8 year old bugs fixed.  And hey, it now supports state of the art technology from 5 years ago.  I no sooner buy Carrara 7 Pro when they come back with their hand out for Carrara 8.  Vue Infinite hasn't even begun to enter into my hobbiest workflow when the next version comes knocking for money.  My favorite is the "maintenance" scam.  Sorry, once I stopped using Microsoft products, I promised myself I'd never grab my ankles for another software company.

Poser 8: what poser 6 should have been.  I suppose, given the fact that every few years, poser is owned by a different company this is to be expected.  Brutal on whatever is left of the development team.  And at least they finally did fix the GUI.  8 years after everyone noticed it sucked.  Maybe that's what the "8" means?  Because if they didn't, Daz Studio Pro would have put the final nail in the coffin.  Of course, my DS pro costs less than the "upgrade" from Poser Pro to Poser 8.

Sigh.  I'm so glad I got out of that industry and back into real engineering where what we design and build doesn't suck and doesn't take nearly so long.  We'd be sued if it did.

PS: am I the only one who finds the term "pro" tired?  Yo, marketing guys.  Would you at least pretend to work?

I mean, My mac is "pro", my DS is "pro", my Poser is "pro".  Sounds like weak bragging.  "Sure I'm a professional.  how could i not be; everything I use has the work 'pro' in it."