Since installing V3 I now have 263 folders in my pose library. I just noticed this evening that I can't access the last folders in the library. When I click on one of them they take me back to some of the beginning folders. Has anyone else had this problem?

Any library, or in fact any directory, can get too full. In Poser 4 at any rate, the limit seems to be 256 subfolders per folder, or 256 files per folder. So you must have just crossed the line! This is specifically a Poser bug; other applications reading the same directory have no trouble.

Seems to me that this hiccup might be an easy coding fix?

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If you can, try to get PBooost by hogwarden. It is an excellent product that you can make more folders for your library.

For example, I have a folder just for body poses, one just for hair mats, one just for clothes mats, one just for Stephanie, one for Michael etc.

It is fantastic and I love it. It cost 20 dollars but worth every penny of it.

I had the same trouble too with the pose folder and PBooost fixed it up.

It works very well with Poser Pro Pack.

The link for it is up top.

Hugs,
Nancy

Is that 256 total files including png or rsr? or 256 total for pz2, cr2, etc?

Hmm, I got pose folders with up to 800 files working fine. Ok, it makes no sense to have soo many poses in one lib, but I am just sorting everything... ;-) I got a different prob: If I have more than 127 folders then Poser is cutting the names of the folders while displaying. For example "inj" or "rem" from the V3-folders are not displayed... Config: P4Pro German under XP

I think the person who decided that the more files there are in a Poser library folder, the smaller the slider gets, deserves an award for possibly the stupidest piece of computer interface design ever. In some of my folders it's almost impossible to scroll down, so hard is it to use the tiny slider!

Same here rockets, I do hate the poser folder stucture. ;( Have to go and delete again some folders, I think I do clean more of folders that I have time to do images. ;(

I get a prob with the pose libary, the only way i solved it was to put a ! or + in front of the folder name. otherwise it sometimes doesn't open and randomly pic a different folder.... LOL.... -=SimderZ=-

Well, I think the concept of the proportional scrollbar is actually brilliant. 99% of the time it works out fine. When I run into software without it I cringe because I have no idea how much is available to me if I scroll. Hard to explain but I get very frustrated without that visual clue. Anyway the proportional scrollbar was patented by Amiga. I think it was one of the things Microsoft bought at the big auction of Amiga technology years ago.

"Have to go and delete again some folders, I think I do clean more of folders that I have time to do images." Thats a big problem for me as well - If I didn't re-organize/rename/consolidate files and folders every couple of weeks, I'd have over 900 folders under poses alone - probably 6 to 8 hundred under characters. I find utilitiees like Yarp's P3do Explorer and H's correctreference to be indispensible. Unforunate I'm one of the minority of XP users who can't "hot-switch" banks of folders with PBoost.

Thanks for the comments and suggestions. I took Nancy's (Sophia Deer) and bought PBooost. After questioning her all morning about how to set it up and how it works, and after moving all those files around, I think I've got it figured out. Hopefully this will do the trick!

Does anyone find that poser 4 slows down a LOT when you have lots of stuff in your folders (I have a bout 2 GB with lots of folders all around). Just switching between pose folders, or clothes folders in poser can take up to a minute. On the other hand, Once when my virus scanner stopped working, it went really fast, which makes me suspect that it isn't just poser. I have mcafee 5. Anyone else get this prob? BTW - my stats are: P4, 1.8GHZ, 1024 RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive with 17 GB still available. Thanks. aharon

My folders switch pretty fast inside Poser. The actual speed depends only on how much is in the individual folder I just picked, for example. Doesn't take long at all. I have about 5 gigs currently in libraries. But I don't run anti-virus in the background. I only let Norton check my mail live but run a complete scan once a week.

Actually, this isn't a bug, it's just a matter of short-sightedness. They are using a single byte to index the folders. One byte can hold a number from 0 - 255, your 256 limit. Once you hit the 256th folder, the "index" resets to 0, or the first folder (not a random one). So, at folder 257 you get the first folder, at 258 you get the second folder, etc. Poser5 overcomes this limitation as well as the "proportional scrollbar". The 256 limit applies to the number of pz2 (actually, cm2, cr2, etc) files, also. The rsr and/or png files don't count against you.

Shadowblade, I am not sure I get this - when you say 256 folders, do you mean in a section like "Poses" or do you mean in the entire runtime folder? I have about 600 folders in my runtime folder... Regarding the speed issue, I think this problem actually started for me when I got the pro Pack - Poser 4 didn't have this problem, and Poser 5 doesn't either. I use P4 Pro vs. P5 because of the external 3D plugins. The only thing I can think of that would slow down the previewing of my Poser 4 Libraries is the PNG thing (instead of RSR's), since that is what has changed durring Previews. Of course, I know nothing about how it is programmed, so my assumption is based on complete guesswork.

"The 256 limit applies to the number of pz2 (actually, cm2, cr2, etc) files, also. The rsr and/or png files don't count against you." Shadowblade...THANKS! I've asked this a few times and never gotten an answer. Arabinowitz: It's per folder. So 256 folders under Poses, and 256 entries in each.

Thanks!

My pleasure. Having been a programmer for 20 years, I was pretty sure of what was going on, but I finally got in touch with Curious Labs and did get confirmation. And, Spit, thank you for clearifying my response. The fact that it applies to the sub-folders, not the Runtime folder, was not clear from my post.