As you all know a few months ago I was having some major computer issues. So I hurried and backed up all of my runtimes to CDs....lots and lots of CDs.

Some of my runtimes are many gigs large so in order for me to get them onto CDs I had to break them up into pieces and zip up parts of it, especially the Pose and Texture folders.

I started off doing one zip at a time with Winzip and it was sooooo tedious and I was afraid my computer was going to breakdown before I finished. So I decided to use "Batchzip Toolkit" to do it. I had never used it to zip up whole folders before, only single files and it worked really well the times I had used it.

I got my new computer and unzipped my runtimes and haven't really done a whole lot in Poser since then.

Today I go into Poser and Poser tells me that it's looking for file after file after file after file!

I nosed around in that runtime and found that none of the folder structures in the pose folder or the texture folder were kept!  Some structures are gone completely and all the files are in one folder.  Others have the structure maintained, but there is  a top layer of files not inside the folders which seems to be all of the files that are also in the sub folders.  And there are folders missing completely     It's such a mess .

Batchzip zips, but it doesn't maintain the file structure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So now I have to redo most of my runtimes.....all of the freaking large ones that I had to zip up to save!  

So beware.  Shortcuts create more work !

"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