https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3416&p=41456#p41456
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Endosphere
Thursday, 13 August 2009, 06:26 AM

Re: So, You're Still Using Poser 4
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Whoah, 15 terabytes for personal data!  Not long ago I would have thought that was excessive, but given the changing nature of data use and management it doesn't seem fanciful at all.  That's unfortunate about your just-out-of-the-box HD being a lemon, but on the bright side at least you know to be wary of it rather than having it suddenly fail with no warning as happened to me with an only-several-months-old drive earlier this year.

Making regular back-ups is definitely a best practice, particularly for nostalgic people like myself who have a lot invested in antique software and arcane files that are irreplaceable.  Since my own major HD crash last year where I lost a lot of data, I've been religiously making backups to CDs once a month--which saved me lots of crying when the replacement drive I bought also failed shortly thereafter.

The threat of lost artwork is yet another great reason for everyone to post their pictures on Posette Forever--if you lose a file locally, you'll still be able to remember and appreciate it here on line.  As you said, multiple copies are good but mulitple copies at multiple locations are even better.

I researched that Poser memory patch thing a little more, and while sadly I did not find anywhere to download it (which is lame--if the current owner of Poser refuses to support older versions it doesn't inspire much confidence that their own current version will still be supported a few years into the future) the details of what the patch was supposed to do is that it allows Poser 4.03 to address installed RAM larger than one gigabyte in volume (not 2 GB).  This explains why I never noticed any reason to install it, as my old computer only has 512 MB of RAM (which knowledgeable people told me years ago I was WAY more than I would ever need).
 
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