Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Mini Rant about a problem with (probably) no solution.

leather-guy opened this issue on Jun 20, 2004 ยท 5 posts


leather-guy posted Sun, 20 June 2004 at 7:34 PM

Does anyone know of an archive indexing program that can search thru zips and installation EXEs as well to generate an index of files and folders contained?

I've been experiencing a growing problem.
I used to buy Poser products every week or two. Lately that's tapered off to once every couple months or less. One of the reasons is the tedious and time-consuming process of integrating new purchases into my Runtime Folder. I regularly go thru renaming and consolidating folders and files to stay within the 256 folder limit in the libraries, but I keep coming across files and folders with random names that I have no idea what product they're associated with. Often I can do a FileFind thru my archived recent purchase Zips to find which Zip contains the files, but that's sometimes not practical, and with *.EXE files (like from DAZ and a couple other sites) that's not possible.

Wish someone was doing a database or list of Poser content filenames and folder names and the product or download associated with them. Cross-references to what products are associated and/or required for each would be a fantastic convenience too.

Thanks
Jerry B
leather-guy

Message edited on: 06/20/2004 19:35