If you have a backup and still have to unzip content then either you are backing up the wrong thing or your restore procedure is not right.  I have all of my content in a folder called Poser content on my E drive. Within that folder I have around 40 runtimes and I back up the main Poser Content folder.  To restore I just copy my backup to a drive and the only thing I have had to do in the past is point Poser to each runtime.  I have done this a few times now without problems and the folder has been there since Poser 6 days while growing on a weekly basis.

Don't get me wrong, I am not having a go and I have had have some manic problems with restores, enough to want not to have to do it again. I am really glad you have got it sorted but if you have backed up the data a restore really should be a lot easier than what you have had to go through.

Not at all!  These are excellent ideas now that I am using DAZ studio I will be able to do just this!  It allows for as many install places as you like for Poser content.  Thanks!  And sorry for all the "now that I am using DS" junk.  Sounds like Propaganda but it isn't meant that way.  If I could afford Posers last upgrade i would be all over it but they upgraded rather quickly but not quick enough for me to get the cheap update.  Reality makes the point moot as that is what I render with for both DS and Poser. Thanks again.

Of course, if the runtimes were back up correctly, neither of these problems would be an issue.

I always understood that Poser did not take back ups well so that while I did have them copied on another hard drive, poser would not recognize them.  Like i have said, I might not have done this correctly because placing the old runtime into a new installation never worked for me.

That's one opinion now why don't you back up your system? and than we don't have to pay for a Download assistant

You are paying for poser... a lot as well... or you can get DAZ Studio and a downloader for free.  It wasnt much of struggle, I do miss Poser at times but DS has turned out to be a great option and its. once again, free.  And who said I didnt back up?  You have to reload the files from their packs to a new runtime in my exp with Poser.  I tried just copying the runtime once and it didnt work, perhaps I did it wrong?  I have all the old files on back up, I just hate unzipping them.  As a perk it seems that I can use my old runtime folder with DS  so color me happy.  That and someone pointed me to a program that unzips multiple files at once so I am really happy.

Thank you very much!

I JUST bought Reality 2 a few days ago and it seems that the Reality 4(?!?) upgrade came out the next day or something like it and now it will cost me more to have bought this first one with the upgrade than it would to just buy the upgrade as a stand alone.  Can I return the first Reality and do this or am I stuck?

Thanks for any information!

ok hope this works...

I JUST bought Reality 2 a few days ago and it seems that the Reality 4(?!?) upgrade came out the next day or something like it and now it will cost me more to have bought this first one with the upgrade than it would to just buy the upgrade as a stand alone.  Can I return the first Reality and do this or am I stuck?

Thanks for any information!

Reposted to make it legible...

Quote - > Quote - It isnt the download that is the problem.  I have all my files its unzipping them one by one that is the nightmare.  Last time it took two days and I didnt even finish.  Its just a pain.

A program like 7zip can extract any archives files in a directory at once. Select all the zip files and just chose a directory to unzip.

THANKS!  You are a savior!

It isnt the download that is the problem.  I have all my files its unzipping them one by one that is the nightmare.  Last time it took two days and I didnt even finish.  Its just a pain.

Wow lots of great ideas.  Doesnt solve anything tho.

When a computer dies, short of a backup image (I will look into that but just as this last time the image had the flaw on it as well so the system crashed again) and you have to reload poser I have found that backing up the runtime is useless as the program wont recognize them unless they were installed by hand.  Seems that when they install they place files needed in other directories outside the poser file.  Anyway having an install manager would be very nice.  Hell perhaps a better version of unzip that will do multiple files?  Does this exist? 

I, of course, have all my files on a back up disk but clicking through the unzip process is just a nightmare.  Winter is coming, maybe I will do it when I have a few days to spare.

And its back again!  So the restart should clear it up hopefully.

Thanks for the ideas, to be honest the power that is renderocity has already laid hands and fixed it though...  I kid you not, without doing anything, I went back on to see if I was missing anything... Nothing wrong.  I didnt do a thing!  Its fixed but I am still gonna do what you said should it reoccur.  Thanks Woot and Huzzah to you!

Many Thanks Mendy!  Very fast response!

Louis

OK. Live and Learn Dept: ProPack IS 4.03. The update numbered 4.2.166 is for non ProPack folks it seems because I re-installed Propack and It works fine. Here is an interesting note: When I had the patch installed it changed the opening screen to three different colored boxes, the ProPack changes this back to the three sepia colored boxes with the dancing figure. Ergo, I believe that the patch was trying to make Poser 4 forget it was Propacked! Anyway, I am back and working again. Thanks for the help.

And why is it showing up as 4.2.160 in the about dialog? Did I get the wrong patch? Is there a patch after this for ProPack?

I do have ProPack already installed. Should I reinstall over the old Poser and ProPack? What exactly did you do kayjay?