https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=3930&p=45016#p45016
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Nik
Monday, 31 July 2017, 01:21 PM

Identifying Old Zips' 'figure', And Organising External Run Times-- SOLVED-ish !!
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Between dealing with family health problems --My dear wife is in hospital *again*-- I've been investigating zips...

Gathering an artist's stuff together, related by style and/or date, I've usually been able to spot *one* essential reference among their ReadMe files. Sometimes Posette, sometimes V2, a few early up-takers with V3...

And, yes, there were a few P3 / V1 whatsits in the mix...
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You can tell Poser 11 hails from US; the manual has a characteristic, exasperating style I remember from wrangling Agilent lab equipment. Typically, a new HPLC system's module stack was a similar size and weight to its many manuals and validation data binders...

I'd set to work with a set of manuals, a fresh pad of post-its and my office door signed 'Do NOT Disturb'. Being a reasonable guy, that had 'Unless REALLY urgent' in small print beneath...

To put it politely, Poser's 'index' is little more than a collection of chapter and topic headings. If you're looking for something that didn't merit such, you gotta take pot-luck with the search engine...

So, via a grim mix of bloody-minded perseverance plus a pinch of serendipity, I found the innocently mis-titled section that explains, in passing, how to set up external run-times. One un-indexed paragraph solved it.

NOW, at last, all those arcane tutorials, threads etc on subject make sense. I need to create eg...

E:\ First_ERT \ First_topic \ Runtime

Browse Poser's library system to that Runtime, select 'add' and the 'First-topic' folder is duly connected.

Rinse and repeat...

I may have multiple, meaningfully named top-folders, each holding multiple, meaningfully named topics. I'll need them. I've decided to segregate the non-specific props, sets, set-kits etc from the crew and the zoo...

My first take would split Poser characters such as dear Posette from the DAZ team. A third group gets the 'Independents'-- AD/MD, Staci etc. Fourth group is the zoo.

With drive space to spare, I've decided clothing sets etc that fit multiple characters, eg A3/V3, A3/V3/V4 or V3/V4 should be copied to each 'fork'.

I'm still trying to figure how to best organise the zillion props, sets etc...

Okay, hospital visiting time approaches, and I've a list of stuff to take...


