Copying Poser content to external drive

deeahr2169

I am going to take some care in asking this question because i wish to avoid any confusion over the terms i use which may not be correct.

I want to set up separate folder for my Poser content on an external hard drive. I have done this for my DS content, I copied my DS content into a folder which i called DS Quick Find and put it into the external drive. Then i used the Content directory manager to set up a path to that folder.

This works with my Daz content but with poser i get the following message ( see attached file )

I don't seem to be able to do the same thing with my Poser content, not sure why...

I would be grateful for any advice or possibly a link to some kind of tutorial that i can follow to do this.

Thank you...

fixmypcmike

Is the folder you selected a Runtime folder, or is there a Runtime folder directly below it?

deeahr2169

That poses the question what exactly is a runtime folder. If i create a folder and name it runtime that surely cannot be all there is to it. However, with the DS content that i mentioned i simply created a folder and called it DS Quick find. In that folder are sub folders for example called Genesis 2, which contain all the content for G2F i have. When i obtain something i manually install it. I put DS conten into Data as required, I put the runtime content like Support and Textures into the runtime on my Daz system folder. I put everything else in the DS Quick find folder on my desk top. I dont think i missed anything there. It works, no idea why but it works. I have the DS Quick find folder set up in content data manager and it works.

However if i try to do the same thing with Poser content, it doesnt work.

I would simply like to have a copy of my Poser content on an external drive as a back up and also as an alternative to having this content on my main drive. But i cant seem to get it to happen...

 

 

fixmypcmike

What is the path to the items it won't let you add?

Sisca

Sadly it is as simple as having a folder named Runtime. Poser looks for that specific folder as it's base starting point for its directory structure. So for what you're doing you can either create a folder on the external drive called Runtime and then move all of your poser content into that folder or create a folder called something like \Poser Quick and then add a folder under that called Runtime and move your content into \Poser Quick\Runtime.

Doing that should work. 

deeahr2169

Got it! It wont wok unless the entire content of the runtime folder is moved into whatever folder i create. I now have a folder on my external drive called Poser quick find with my runtime in it and it works fine. Thanks to everyone who helped...