Amanodel opened this issue on Feb 08, 2009 · 4 posts
Amanodel posted Sun, 08 February 2009 at 1:01 AM
I work on an Asus Eee PC and it works wonderfully. Unfortunately I've filled my netbook's harddrive already. Largely in part due to my poser downloads. I'm going to be purchasing an external hard drive and was wondering if anyone knew if all of my data would transfer fine and how do I switch poser from drive C to the external drive?
IsaoShi posted Sun, 08 February 2009 at 3:58 AM
Best practice would be to leave Poser itself installed on your internal drive and create an external Poser library (Runtime) on the external drive. All your content (current and future) will be on the external drive. (I think there are some people who do have Poser itself installed on a USB or Firewire drive, but I would not do this myself).
I have only ever used external libraries, but If I were doing this I think I would:
By the way, I would also recommend getting a two-disk external drive with mirrored disks. It's a bit more money, but using an external disk gives you this option, and think of what you would lose if your single external drive failed... which they sometimes do!
EDIT: WAIT FOR MORE RESPONSES BEFORE DOING ANYTHING!! Others may have better ideas than mine. (It's actually more than likely!)
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TrekkieGrrrl posted Sun, 08 February 2009 at 4:21 AM
I'm running my Poser from an external harddisk. I't's only installed on my computer to help me get the file associations. Poser can theoretically run from anything. I've run it from a CD and a flash drive (USB stick) just to prove a point :)
so just copy the whole Poser 7 (or whatever version) over to the new disk, make a shortcut to Poser.exe and that's it. :) Easy-peasy.
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karibousboutique posted Sun, 08 February 2009 at 12:10 PM
You can have runtimes anywhere. I have runtimes on three separate hard drives, with poser running on my main C drive. And, yes, you probably can run Poser from any drive, too, though if it's not a serial drive, it will slow down considerably. I suggest keeping Poser's main install on your C drive, and using external runtimes, just as IsaoShi suggests. Just remember a few things:
2) Python scripts must be installed in your main runtime.
If you boot poser with your external drive unplugged, it will forget about your external runtimes, and you'll have to re-add them.
Take IsaoShi's advice and get a redundant, self-backing drive. I lost ALL my runtimes about two months ago and had to start over. NOT fun, I assure you. Thankfully, I had backups of most of my install files on another drive. In any event, back up EARLY and OFTEN.
Good luck!
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