OK so I bought poser 7, I have kah-kah-loads of poser 6 material I've created.  I want to bring all the stuff I created in poser 6 into poser 7.

I want a big, fat, shiny red button that I push and does this instantly,...ok that's not realistic.

Alternatives?  Should I just rename the poser 6 directory Poser 7 and then install into that?

Thanks,
                   George

No. Have you not read the 1000 other posts here that all say to NEVER install a new poser version into an old one?

Sorry, but it seems this exact same question has been asked every other day for about 2 weeks now, and the exact same answer has already been given every other day as well.

All you do is install P7, and then add your p6 install as an additional runtime.

Use the management tools EF has built into the program.

Hrm,

Maybe they should turn the subject into a huge banner at the top of the list as it is such a popular issue?

Thanks, by the way :)

It might be a good thing to add in the back room, but I can't think of any single program at all that you install a new version over the top of an installed version.

Can you?

Actually, Band in a Box recommends you do install over the existing version.  But that is the only one I have run across.  As a rule, I never install over the old one; except for the already mentioned BIAB.

Right now I have Poser 5, Poser 6 and Poser 7 all installed on my D drive with no problems whatsoever.  That drive also has my Bryce 5.5, Bryce 6, Vue 4 Esprit, Vue 5 Esprit and Vue 6 Esprit since it's my 3D Apps drive.

We weren't talking about having multiple versions installed, we were talking about installing over the top of a previous installation.

I also have P5, P6 P6 sr3 and P7 installed on my old system, but each is installed in their own folder.

On my new system, I have P6sr3, and P7 installed.

I tried it once by installing Poser5 over Poser4, neither worked so I had to uninstall & start again from scratch, my advice leave poser6 where it is & just let Poser7 do it's thing & just link to the runtime.

I haven't had any problems with leaving the poser 6 install entirely separate.  I did reinstall all of my content though, considering the way stuff is distributed through many directions I think that's much safer than trying to copy stuff manually.

Agree with Garee, I never ever install any new application on top of an old version, if there are any issues with them refusing to co-exist then I'd uninstall the old version as completely as possible.

Actually with many smaller applications, one is expected to install the new version over the old one. The more complex the application, the less this is likely to be a good idea.

Not to mention the fact that in some cases one may want to run the old version to check compatibility, etc.