Runtime library that is. :-) Mine is 6.27GB...sad isn't it?

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oh..I'm upwards of a megabyte now..;) but then half the stuff I've set up belongs to 'the shruggin' man'..saru's just 2 eyeballs..if it weren't for Sixus..it'd be even less..gotta still figure what goes where..;)

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Mine is 42 gig. Yes, gig. That doesn't include my own work files for clothing and objects that I keep. That's another 4 or 5 gig. And it doesn't include all those texture files I use but aren't part of my runtime, another 3 gig. The total is pushing 50 gig. So I'm a junkie. I never delete anything. I don't even know what half of the stuff is. Thank the goddess for big hard drives. But I'm keeping it ALL. MWHAAAAHHAAAAAHHAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!! (please note: multiple exclamation points are the sign of a diseased mind)

Pdxjims that is one huge runtime or runtimeslol Mine is really puny only a 2.3 GB it used to be way bigger but I try to be selective of what I install now.

P4 or P5? ;D P4 = 5.73 GB P5 = 2.11 GB

Gee Pdxjims, I thought I was bad! You must have one HUGE hard drive! LOL

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OK, so I admit it. I've got a 120 gig and a 160 gig drive. Poser is on the 120, work files and uh, other things are on the 160. I am planning on pruning my runtime though. I got a DVD R/W not long ago, and I'm going to back a lot of old stuff onto it. And I didn't count my P4 installation... Geeze, it's probably 10 to 12 gig.

p4 - 21.5 gigs p5 - 2.03 gigs Not counting my Images folder, Characters in Progress folder, and Working Products folder which add another 10 gigs or so ..not counting the PoserWorldProduct folder which is at 2.5 gigs right now .... just wrapped up another huge product there and will burn it off to CD tonight. I have a 120 gig HD devoted to graphics. Games? who has time to play games? Lyrra

Glad I1m not the only one.I have 11 gigs and 15,767 files

P4 - 20.1 gb P5 - 810 mb I haven't installed everything i have in the runtimes. 120 gig HD, 70 gig partition for poser JV

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OMG you people are insane! LOL! My Runtime is 3.75 GB and I think that is way too large! I'm constantly pruning stuff out of it too because you have to come to a point where it's impossible to know what resources you have available and it's just wasting disk space.

Admittedly it's easier to maintain such a small Runtime when all you do are pinup renders and nudes:

V3 - check
Lingerie - check
Props for ambiance - check

Good to go! :)

Only 14.4 GB for my runtime

My current harddrive is only 15GB total...and that is all I'm saying!!

7.96 gb with 36,220 items. Hmm... I wonder how big it was before my crash. I didn't put everything back.

Are you folks counting the size of the pz3 files that are created everytime you make a new file ? or just the raw runtime.

Nope, the pz3 files are burnt on cd's ( i got 33 of them)

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OK, now how many of you are padding your Runtime with BUM files? They don't count you know. I once found 20+Gig of them buggers on my HD so I now only make them when I need them then throw them out. Got a 26.7Giger here (with No BUM nor PZ3s included)

24.8 GB here.

I am going to be getting a bigger HD soon.

I also need to weed out a lot of things as I have much stuff for Victoria 2 that I do not use so much anymore.

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17.5gb... must admit I got a bit scared when I clicked Properties and the hourglass just started spinning... thought it was going to be even bigger! I really have to sort my runtimes out. There's loads of stuff there that I've used only once or not at all. There's too much yummy freestuff out there!

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p4/4.6 p5/5.1 bryce5/4.0 size dont matter its how you use it that counts lol

Unreal, I have a 518MB runtime.

16.6 gb. That was a shock to me! And it is all one runtime. I copied all my old runtime into Poser 5's when I got it as it sped it all up so much.

You guys are nuts. =O) I was just wondering if Poser has any professional applications? I've hear that police forensics like using it for crime scene reproduction, and I have scene it used in some advertisments but are there any other real world uses for it? Or is it just a form of entertainment for people like us. Oh yeah... 2.3GB Poser5 only... but isn't it how you use it? The Ever Viscious Skidlicious

Here's my nominee for the *smallest* working runtime (& I'm not talking about an "extra" used to zip up freebies/products :-) Since all I use Poser 4 these days is to test my freebies, I use a stripped down runtime with all the defaults removed except for a few textures, Posette & Dork, & whatever my current project is.

Okay so pdxjims beats me on size - but file count? No, never! If you're a junkie, you're a junkie. No PZ3's, no zips - only pure Runtime. Poser with all its stuff occupies about 210 GB on my harddisks (total capacity on 5 disks is over 900 GB). Plus all the backups on DVD of course. :] Fish

Hmmm... just crossed the 10gig barrier, but then again I've now in a habit of storing props outside Poser runtime. Filecount in runtime 40700+ ... uuh... I think I'm gonna go insane when the time comes to do a defragmenting of the partition ...

P4 21,9 GB, heavy cleaning ahead rest of the week. ;(

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7.01Gb. But its not the size... its how ya use it. ;o)

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39GB and I have only been using Poser for 13months now!!

And this is just the V3 Runtime!!!!!

Runtime only is 34GB and 176,121 files. Poser4 has it's own 120 GB HD not shared with anything else.

P4ProPack 24.9GB 42,186 files 1976 folders P5 4.9GB 10,060 files 679 folders

5,09

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25.4gigs in the external runtimes (which mirrors the old P4 runtime with new runtimes to keep some things seperated and easier to find). No scene files, no modded textures (-that- would add another 8 gig or so), and the only bum files are those that came with P4; the rest were converted over time to jpeg. Years and years of years and years.....

47.84 gigs. I need to go through and archive the stuff I'm not using. :)

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okay this is just my runtime but a lot of poses that I don't use as much are stored in a different folder. Thanks for this thread...seeing how big everyone elses is makes me feel better...now I don't feel like such a junkie... :)

Except for the primatives and geometries for the lights and camera,all original Poser content was deleted. I'm very selective and "picky". SWAMP

P4- 7.46 Gb P5- 1.57 Gb I create all my figures in P4, which would be half that if I ever get around to making injects and mats. I use P5 for the renderings and setup room, well all the rooms. Most of my poser stuff is on disk, don't want to think how much is sitting there.

41.8g here. I really need to prune it.

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gee. Mines only floating around 5GB right now. Oh, wait, forgot that runtime and that one and that one. And, oh yeah, that one. um, well, I've got a lot of stuff. Dunno how much, and I'm too damn tired to think about it.

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I have 23.4g, but a lot of it is stuff that I don't use anymore. What's the best way to get rid of it?

Ok..just to keep things in perspective- my 'work' Poser, v3, no additions..but if we're counting CD's..I have 87, 15,005 files, at about, oh..23g's or so..;)

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Mine is at 1.26, and I thought that was way to much and can get confusing, that I have deleted some files (Obj files, stuff in libraries, and also including with the texture folders) that I do not need. Now I have seen big time Runtime folders in here (Amazing). Wondering how in the world can they keep track of everything in Poser?. Now, just imagine when everyone here and even myself, need to reinstall everything...hehe..that is the painfull part.

Oog. I know exactly how big my runtime is, last week I had to move Poser from my 10GB D: drive to my 40GB C: drive -- the free space kept falling below 500MB, and I was running out of other odds and ends to shift off my two year old never-fill-that-in-a-million-years 10GB drive... I also know now how just long it takes to copy 7.5GB from one drive to another. Never mind my 2GB archive of .pz3 files, that was already on the C: drive.

P5 only. Nothing in Runtime that should be elsewhere.

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And I have gzipped every single file I could (except the poses) :P

OK here's mine.. It has grown a bit since I last checked it *G* No .bum's , no .rsr (at least none that can be omitted) and no PZ3's.

~6gb but i'm not sure it's been awhile since i checked.

No wonder Poser5 takes ages to load. But they won't make us delete any one of our files. We love them too much...They are our precioussssss...

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Some of you appear to be using Disk Compression and some not.

For those that are not, why not?

For those that are, ever have any difficulties?

(Posted as a separate question linked above, but this thread is what started me wondering).

Poser runtime - 25.0GB Scenes = 685MB Thank god for P3do explorer or I'd be lost.....Why in the world do I keep buying ~eye roll~ LOL

Nance; main reason for not using disk compression is performance. It slows down the whole system (regardless of what MicroMonkies might say), every time you call a compressed file it has to be uncompressed to work with it then recompressed when your done with it. On top of slow down there are also resources involved in the decompression/re-compression. Also take note that HD space limits do calculate the "used space" based on Non-compressed data, not on the compressed status. Say a user has a file restriction of 50Meg on a hard drive; that is 50Meg Un-compressed, not 50Meg after compression (talking Windows here, don't know MAC) IMO, it's ok for standard office jocky machines but not sutable for any machine that needs power and speed. On the other hand, with some of the more powerful machines today, loaded with memory and plenty of disk space then it may not (in most cases) cause much issues.

The real story at this point...but changes on a constant rotation. At this point I try to delete seldom used items b4 adding new ones.

I've only disk compression 1x on my old machine & programs came to a screaching halt, so to speak. When I got my new system, actually as of 2 systems ago, the guys that build my puters say it's not good to compress...so I haven't. Just got a bigger HD & use my space wisely. I'm now up to 3 HD's all 2 120's & 1 200. Just my experience. On my main HD I ALWAYS keep 1/2 of the drive space free, and I do mean always. I check space weekly & move/delete/backup as necessary. I've never had a problem operating this way. ~Knocking on wood now~ I actually have my Poser & Vue folders backed up twice, 1 backup on each HD.

8.79Gb in mine :-) but should be around 9 after I get done installing about a dozen things I have waiting It would have been over 9 but I got rid of 35meg of bum files

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compiler; Want to speed up P5 launch? Create a folder called 'null runtime', put =nothing= into it, and link it into P5. Get in the habit of switching to that runtime whenever you quit P5, and your startup should get a lot faster. Like about 14-30 seconds, depending on your system (I get a click to workspace in about 15 seconds with an Athlon 64 3000+ and 1.5 gigs of ram). It does work, and P5 doesn't mind there not being any content in there...or even a library structure.

2.67 gig in 6 runtimes ~18,000 files in 1,400 folders built from 1.27 gig of zips and installs (plus M2 and V2 CDs) 675 files

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Thanks for the tip, Dale B. I'll try it. I fear that what time I don't spend in the opening process will be spent when I open the real Runtime, but it's definitely worth trying. I wonder if I could force this default folder by making the relevant xml non writeable ?

Around 18 gigs spread across 6 runtimes plus WIP/saved pz3's taking up another 26 gigs and just under 2 gigs of finished & test renders And another half a gig of zip files I haven't installed yet

here is mine. not too impressive...