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Subject: Python Script to uncompress single files in Poser

Acadia opened this issue on Jun 03, 2005 ยท 10 posts


Acadia posted Fri, 03 June 2005 at 7:48 AM

Hi, the other day I found out I could compress my runtime folders (I use multiple ones) using Poser 5, in order to save hard drive space. A problem I've encountered that I don't like is that you have to target an entire runtime to compress or uncompress, even when you only want to uncompress ONE single .cr2 file. I wanted to run Dial Cleaner on my V3 .cr2 file, but because it was now a .crz file, Dial Cleaner can't read it. I was been told that Winzip could be used to unzip the files as needed, but I have Winzip and when I right click the file to unzip, there is NO unzip option... just various ones to zip it. I did a tedious work around by creating a separate runtime and placed the single file I wanted to uncompress in it and ran the Poser 5 uncompress file script, and then placed the uncompressed .cr2 file back in the original location. It would be extremely handy to be able to do all this compress and uncompress within Poser instead of having to rely on outside utilities for everything. Would it be possible for someone to write a script that addresses this issue and allows for single file compression/uncompression from within Poser itself?

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