Greetings all! I plan on formatting my hard drive soon, so I've been burning all of my Poser 5 content to CD. I've saved the original .ZIP files for everything I've purchased/downloaded as well as the DAZ installers, so I'm safe. The only thing I'm concerned about is a few clothing items that I've altered with Wardrobe Wizard/Tailor 1.5 and some V3 figures I've made. Exactly what do I need to do to save them externally? I admit that I haven't paid much attention to P5's file system. I appreciate the help guys.

examine the files in a text editor (or P3DO) to see if there are any external file calls. If there aren't any you're safe. If there are, make sure you bundle up the external files (geometries and textures most likely) and save those too.

All the analyses for Wardrobe Wizard are saved in the RuntimePythonposerScriptsPhilCWardrobe Wizardanalyses folder, you might want to put that on a CD, as well as the folders of things altered with the Tailor, and any cr2/pz2/fc2 files for your custom figures.

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Just save the .dat files in the wardrobe wizard analysis folder, or even save the whole folder and paste it back once you have reformatted. I just saved the whole PhilC folder and pasted it back that way I had all of the updates as well as my unlock file already there. The .dat files are what contains the "confrom from" information. All you have to do once you have that .dat file is to put the clothing on your new figure and hit "conform to" and WW takes the information from the .dat file and conforms the clothing. A tip if you are planning on saving your runtime folders to CD. Uncompress the files if you have them compressed. My last reformat was a nightmare. I spent HOURS and HOURS burning down files for nothing. Many files from my compressed runtime folders couldn't be unzipped. I had used CDRW's and verified that I could open each CD before moving onto the next one. However, there was something about the files that I had compressed in Poser that caused Winzip, or any zip program, to be able to extract some files... alot of files. And it wasn't limited to one CD either, it was all of the CD's that I had burned my runtime files to. And oddly enough, limited only to those CDs that had poser runtime files on them. The other CDs of miscellaneous non-Poser files that I burned were not subject to this oddity. As an experiment, I burned down a runtime that wasn't compressed in Poser, and I used a CDR, and didn't have any trouble extracting all of the files.

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