https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3416&p=41151#p41151
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Nik
Monday, 16 March 2009, 01:57 PM

Re: So, You're Still Using Poser 4
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"... hdd crashed after I had all my runtimes sorted out and before I could save them to an external drive"

Been there, done that. Except mine was a HUGE 3DS archive, neatly sorted & categorised, duplicated on the two D: drives on my two PCs. Then one D: drive died by inches. While I was still trying to identify cause, then recover from failure, the other D: died...

They were identical drives, from a bad batch. Maker later left the business...

I was able to recover *most* of my archive from the upload/download directories on the PCs' C: Drives, but I was never sure what I'd lost, and a lot of the web-sites had vanished...

Sting in tale: I'd bought three (3) drives together. I'd put the other into a portable USB box, used it for 'take on holiday' stuff with lap-top-- It died a year later, on holiday.
D'uh.
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Um, I found my Poser 4 needed the BigRAM patch, otherwise it fell over in bizarre ways.

I've got v7, still in box, but I can't install it because the CAD_PC would need to dial out. And the CAD_PC cannot spare Norton's overheads. I'm thinking of getting a Yoggie stick to off-load the firewall's resources, but I can't justify the £ 100...

And, um, I seem to be 3D-blind at the moment. I can't see meshes in my Mind's Eye or think creatively. Same happened in 2004/5, which took me out of Poser for several years...

My head hurts...
 :sad: