Acadia opened this issue on Sep 13, 2005 ยท 9 posts
Acadia posted Tue, 13 September 2005 at 3:18 AM
I compress my files in Poser 5 to save on disk space. I noticed today that I seem to have "duplicates" in some of my texture folders... I just have installed files after having compressed them.. hence them not being over written. Is the compressed file the .PZ2 file, or the .P2Z file? I guess it doesn't really matter which ones I delete so long as it's consistent... but I'd rather delete the compressed ones and recompress again.
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geep posted Tue, 13 September 2005 at 6:12 AM
Remember ... "With Poser, all things are possible, and poseable!"
cheers,
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Acadia posted Tue, 13 September 2005 at 6:57 AM
Thanks :) .pzz would have been much simpler, lol
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
diolma posted Tue, 13 September 2005 at 4:06 PM
LOL:-) The PoserGods once again failed to anticipate...
I've always wondered why Pose files had "pz2" extensions, instead of the more logical "ps2". And why a complete scene ALSO has a "pz(3 or z)" extension...
One or the other of them should have been re-named at birth..
Unless, of course, ".ps?" coincides with some other apps extension. But that's never stopped anyone before..
It's not as if the majority of users would want to open Poser by clicking on a pose file (on a scene file, yes. But not a pose file..)
Cheers,
Diolma
(Edited to add: But then consistency has, IMHO, never been one of Poser's strong points...)
Message edited on: 09/13/2005 16:08
geep posted Tue, 13 September 2005 at 6:21 PM
Ah, but what if we ...
Remember ... "With Poser, all things are possible, and poseable!"
cheers,
dr geep ... :o]
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svdl posted Tue, 13 September 2005 at 9:28 PM
All the compressed file extensions end on "Z". So the p2z is the compressed version.
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Acadia posted Wed, 14 September 2005 at 12:36 AM
Thanks svdl, now that I can remember :) lol
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
geep posted Wed, 14 September 2005 at 7:31 AM
NaySayGuy always uses the .zzz file extension.
(for ALL his files - so he knows that they're his)
;=]
Remember ... "With Poser, all things are possible, and poseable!"
cheers,
dr geep ... :o]
edited 10/5/2019
diolma posted Wed, 14 September 2005 at 4:32 PM
"All the compressed file extensions end on "Z". So the p2z is the compressed version." Agreed, Steven. But pz2->p2z is the exception to the rule that the compressed version has the same 1st 2 letters but with the 3rd letter replaced by a "z". Why? 'cos it would conflict with the scene files (which ALSO start with "pz"). That's what I meant about "not thinking ahead".... Eiether the pose file or the scene file should have had its extension changed as soon as compression was introduced. Mind you, it was probably too late by then (for backward compatibility reasons). Ah, well, I've already got used to it (and anyway I never save in compressed format; I often want to edit the files, and also, if a compressed file ever gets corrupted there's not a hope in h*ll of correcting it in a text editor, whilst with an uncompressed file you at least have a slight possibility). Cheers, Diolma