I ran it through the mac to PC converter, installed poser 5 on the PC then copied in the poser 4 runtime without any of the poser program files just the library and geometry, but for some reason when I choose a figure in poser on the PC it cannot find the geometry file and when I try to locate it from within poser it just can't see it. Any ideas? Love esther

I shopping one Pc the last day of this month and I have interest in this question.

Hi, I think maybe I did something stupid. I'm just reloading the geometries folder now, so I'll let you know if it works. Love esther

I think I broke the PC. I was copying a very large folder of characters into a folder that had some folders with same name, and the thing just crashed. WEll either I hurt it, or funny crashes in the middle of moving folders is part of having a PC. Anyway it's self restarting. Think I'll go to bed and try again tomorrow. Love esther

What OS? I've seen this happen several times under 98/SE when doing a large copy operation. I don't think I've ever seen it of 2000 and I imagine XP should be the same. If it happens again, try copying fewer folders/files at a time. On 98, it seerm to be more related to the number of files than the total size of the copy. You might also try turning off anti-virus--just a wild guess. Worst case, you might try booting into "safe mode" and copying them from there with a minimum of loaded drivers, etc. Again, just a guess.

Hi thanks for that - it's XP. Yes, it even crashed copy a library file that I had on a DVD just now. I'm trying it again, but if it doesn't work then I'll start turning stuff off if I can figure out how to do that. Love esther

Copys that involve a huge number of files are best done using xcopy from the command line as Explorer just doesn't handle them well.

tell me more - i don't even know where to find the command line. love esther

Click the Start button, select Run and then type "cmd" into the text box and press Enter.

When the command window appears type "xcopy /?" to get the help.
You can also find this information in the Windows Help, click Start button, select Help and search for xcopy.

To summarise, there are options to specify if / how subdirectories and their contents are copied.

thankyou - will try one more time the normal way and if it doesn't work will try xcopy. love esther

I think I need to use this as I keep getting error messages when I try to copy the files manually. There's certain ones that just won't copy. I looked at the help thingy but I'm scared. Can you tell me how I just copy from source to destination. Love esther

For this example I'll assume you want to copy files from the directory C:here to the directory C:there
Just replace the example paths with your real ones.

Copy only files not subdirectories

xcopy C:here C:there

Copy only files and all subdirectories (and their contents) xcopy C:here C:there /s /e

If you are copying over a network add /z

If some of the files already exist in C:there and you don't want to have to confirm overwrite for each one add /y

If you want to check what files will get copied add /l

and remove when your sure that you have the correct values.

The other two most useful options are /m

and /d:date

Check the help for an explaination of the last two.

thanks - I'll try it. Love esther

If you're having problems with specific files, I'm wondering if it may be something about the filenames. The MacOS and Windows have different characters that aren't allowed in filenames. Windows won't accept a filename with any of the following: /:*?"<>| I'm not sure what the result would be if you tried to copy such a file.

Also maybe length of some of my file names? WEll anyway I tried Xcopy but maybe I did something wrong - I put spaces as shown where you put spaces, but I got an error message, so I'm just back to copying a little at a time and leaving out the files that give error messages. It will take me awhile to finish I feel. Has anyone made a little GUI for Xcopy somewhere. That would be easier for me just to drag and drop. Love esther

Length shouldn't be a problem. Windows can have up to 255 characters I believe which should be as much/more than MacOS. xcopy J:MacFiles*.* C:Poser /s Should work--don't know what your source paths look like for the Mac files--that's the way it works in windows. One possible problem is spaces in the path: xcopy J:Program FilesMetacreationsPoser 4*.* will error. You need to use quoues to handle the spaces: xcopy "J:Program FilesMetacreationsPoser 4". If you're really brave/desperate, I'll post a script to semi-automate the process. No drag and drop, you'll have to paste the paths manually but it should handle the quotes and the trailing 's for you so you would only have to copy the paths directly from Explorer's address box and paste them in the prompts. WARNING: I've only tested this briefly. It didn't destroy anything on my system but use at your own risk. It's quick and dirty--test it first on something non-critical.

You'll have to have scripting enabled on your system for this to work. Create a new text file on your desktop and paste the text into it. Save and rename the file to Xcopy.vbs. Ignore the warning about changing the filetype. I don't know how scripting runs on XP if you will get security warnings. Double click to run or right click and select open if double click opens it in Notepad. '----------------------------------------------------------

' VBScript GUI for XCopy

Dim YesNo
Dim mySource
Dim MyDest
Dim MyCmd
Dim WshShell

mySource = InputBox("Enter Source Path","Xcopy")
If mySource = "" then WScript.Quit

myDest = InputBox("Enter Destination Path","Xcopy")
If mySource = "" then WScript.Quit

YesNo= MsgBox("Copy SubDirectories?",4,"Xcopy")

If Right(myDest,1)  <> "" Then myDest = myDest & ""

If Right(mySource,1) <> "" Then mySource = mySource & ""

myDest = Chr(34) & myDest & Chr(34)
MySource = Chr(34) & MySource & Chr(34)
MySource = MySource & "*.*"
MyCmd = "XCopy " & MySource & " " & MyDest

If YesNo = 6 then MyCmd = MyCmd & " /s"

YesNo = MsgBox("Run " & vbCRLF & MyCmd & "?",4,"XCopy")

    If YesNo = 6 then
 
        Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

        WshShell.Run MyCmd,,vbTrue
        
        Set WshShell = Nothing
        
    End If

'----------------------------------------------------------

Ooh, that all looks scary but I will keep that script. and promise I will eventually try it when I'm more familiar with the PC. Thank you so much for going to all this trouble for me! I managed to copy almost everything from my DVD backups of poser, but it took a long while, and certain files were not accepted. So I've got a runtime on my puter. I just tried poser 5 and it asked me to locate the geometry so something is obviously amiss. I have to try and restart, and also just check my folders and make sure everything is in the right place. I had no idea it would be so difficult to copy large quantities of stuff. Ihate the way that if it can't copy one file, it just stops and doesn't try and copy all the other files in the folder and all the other folders. then at the end it could just tell me which files it couldn't do. that would be so much easier. Love esther

Use the option "/c" to ignore errors.

aha!