I have duplicate figures and materials in P4 and P7 runtimes and would like to remove the duplicates. Is there an easy way to find these and remove them, Will it mess things up?
How do I find all the duplicates? I need computer space.

skee.

Hard drive space is very cheap.. you can buy an external 1 tb hd for $89 shipped, and a 2 tb external for $150 shipped!

That said, there are many duplicate file finder programs available for free.. but the problem you'll run into, is poser is looking for things to be in specific folders, and if you yank them, you'll start getting errors on your content.

You could merge just the content folders from the p4 runtime into the P7 one, and then delete the P4 one, unless you've customized some of the content yourself.

But if you are that tight on hd space, odds are your system cache is also going to be hurting as well.

Just a suggestion but ... :huh:

Hard drives have become so inexpensive now, why not just add more storage rather than risk losing something because it got accidentally deleted. :blink:

cheers,
dr geep
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Edit: LOVE those xposts. :lol:
Hi Gareee

Thank for the suggestion Dr.Geep, I have mutiple hard drives and I am using the them to store
the files. I was hoping to lean down some of my computer space on the main one. I use extra runtime folders, so maybe I don't have to worry about the duplicates.
skee.

Odds are you won't save a ton of space, because the older poser figures you have duplicates of were lowere poly, and used smaller texture maps.

Also Thanks Gareee for your suggestion, Another question maybe you can answer....
Do I need to keep all the Poser programs on my computer( P3,P4,P5,P6,P7) to have the runtimes work in P7.  I could make space by removing some of these.

skee.

The one I use is called Duplicate File Finder , works very well, but you have to be a bit careful with it. 

Consider making your runtimes compressed. There is a python script to compress them and the preference setting will make sure anything new is compresed too. It does save a lot of space .

Not at all.. you do need the content folders though. Most of the content is exactly the same and unchanged from version of poser to version, but the safest way to deal with it is to copy the newer content runtimes over the top of the older ones, JUST in case there were updates.

Non duplicate files will still exist, and remain untouched.

Only merge the runtime folders with lights, poses, figures, textures and materials. The actual content you use. None of the poser system or python files, unless you grabbed some unique ones you use, and need them for some reason. A lot depends on what you installed where.

There isn't really any reason at all to keep P3-P6 installed at all once you merge all the content into your P7 runtime.

Normally I recommend using multiple runtimes for everything, because poser operates much faster, but since you have so many redundant files and a big mess, back merging them is probably your best way to clean house.

Before doing a merge, think things through completely, as far as things you might potentially loose.

The real problem with duplication is not the figures and props, but
the textures and OBJ files.   If you have lots of runtimes connected
to Poser, you have a good chance of finding the wrong "Wood.jpg"
or the wrong "Box.obj" when loading a figure or prop.  There's no
easy solution to this problem; the mechanical duplicate finders won't
tell you which "Box.obj" is the one you really need.

On the last question:  No, you don't need to keep the earlier Poser
programs.  You can keep their content and connect it to P7.
But again it's the same thing: Disk space is really cheap, and
your time and mental effort are really expensive.   Life's too short.

Trying to delete the program without deleting the content (or vice-versa)
is time-consuming and error-prone.   Poser mixes the content and
program parts so closely that you'll almost always delete some of
the wrong stuff.

I guess I should leave it as is, I am prom to screw things up.

skee.

Best thing to do, is just move all of them to an external hd, if you c drive is too full. You want no less then 10 gb free on C for vista and everything to run smoothly.

The old saying was if you could buy a gig for less then $100, is was a great deal. Now you can buy 1 tb for under $100, which is an amazing deal!

No clone is a good program that compares content of files not just their names. It will find things that are the same but have different names too. And you can pick what to delete. You need to be careful though your png files may be the same with the inj and rem poses. also it won't delete the rsr if you also have the png file.

You could also go through everything by hand. It'll take a bit longer but you'll only earase what you want.

Good luck