Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Challenge Loading/Organizing Unzipped Poser Content

skeetshooter opened this issue on Aug 23, 2006 ยท 8 posts


skeetshooter posted Wed, 23 August 2006 at 12:57 PM

HISTORY: Over the past couple of days I have downloaded about 70 characters, morph packages and props to help with an animation project, and I unzipped all of them onto an external hard drive (intentionally) rather than to the Poser program folder. Now I have 70 different runtimes waiting for an organized home, so using the Library in P6 to add a runtime for each seems silly (70+ runtimes at the top level?). FYI, I am Mac-based. PROBLEM: The original .sit packages are gone, so unzipping again them "into" a more structured runtime is not an option, and placing the individual .cr2, etc. files into folders by hand is too tedious to comtemplate. POOR ALTERNATIVES: Simply downloading them again via Content Manager is also not a good option for a variety of reasons, but especially for Mac users like me, because Content Manager uses Inernet Explorer as its default browser, a browser that is way out of date for Mac users since it functions under and old operating system. WHAT I NEED: Ideally, I want a shareable runtime(s) on my external drive and Library that is well organized. I want to take advantage of P6's ability to have a runtime on an external drive because I move my files back and forth between hulking G5 desktop computers at my home and my office. I've succeeded in accessing the drive and sample the Poser content via each home/office computer, but I'm still struggling to organize my content and my Library AND, most importantly, not having to either hand-place each content file (there are over 5,000!). Gettin' frustrated here. There's gotta be a way! Any ideas?