OK. Machine is about 3 months Old

AMD Phenom II x 6 1055T 2.8Ghz

8 Gigs Ram

Win 7

AMD HD 6700 (came with Machine)

1 TB Drive. Has a 640 gb Drive added by me.

External Library: C:Users3D MacDocumentsDAZ 3DStudioMy Library

Have some subfolders...Vehicles, Weapons, Scenes etc.

I have purchased a lot of stuff, DL'd Free stuff, and am a Poserworld Member who just went ape poo poo and DL'd everything on earth and installed it all. Obviously incorrectly. It's all on the C: drive with the D drive serving as backup.

Running Poser Pro 2012 64 bit and DS 4 Free.

I have slowed the Apps to a CRAWL and I can't find Johnathan Feces. Should I just delete it all... learn to stay non-H.U.A. and then reinstall it all or is there someway to salvage this mess?

I've read lots of threads with bits and pieces but due to a medical problem cannot seem to string them altogether into a coherent strategy.

TIA and sorry for being so H.U.A.

Just remove the runtimes, and add them as you need items from them. (Not uninstall.. just remove the references to them from within poser.)

Sooner or later, you'll add whatever was causing your issues, and you can then just delete that and reinstall it.

KISS when dealing with poser content management.

Is your 1 T drive partitioned?  Once you get into very large drives, I found it a good idea to partition them.  I keep my OS in one partition, my apps in another.  My runtimes are on a separate HDD.  I'm still old school and keep Poser and my external runtimes well away from each other even though I haven't had Poser take down my externals since Poser 5.

You might want to take a look at some of the Partitioning software out there.

If you can't afford it, check daily with Giveaway of the Day

giveawayoftheday.com

You can find a lot of useful software there.  The daily giveaway is free.  Only catch is, if you have to reinstall the OS, you lose the app. 

Win7 comes with partitioning build in.

 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg309170.aspx

Quote - Win7 comes with partitioning build in.

 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg309170.aspx

Didn't know that.  Thanks.  Learn something new everytday.

When i installed win7 I found thaqt out before buying an update to partition magic. The win7 one is just as good, and included. No more partition magic for me!

I'm not sure what to do. Maybe move the external to the D: drive. I can't stand to reformat. I just got all (almost) of my stuff back on the new machine. 

I would check your runtime structure is correct because if you have many things in the wrong place and deep set for your search option Poser will look at the entire drive to find a file.  You can identify that fairly quickly by setting search depth to the lowest setting, you will get an error message instead.

You could also unlink all of your old runtimes. Then create a few new ones and just reinstall content (in an organized manner) as you actually use it.

I've got 130GB in 13 runtimes, and a very gradual and continual reorgnization is the only way I can cope with it. I also find P3dO Explorer to be very useful. But much of the old content is no longer installed. If I find a need to use a Poserworld historial costume for M2, for example, then I'll make a Daz generation 2 runtime and install the stuff. Until then, it can stay zipped and tagged in my Poserworld>M2>Clothing folder.