Never noticed this until Bryce 5 but it has claimed all the icons in my Lightwave and Poser folders as Bryce 5 Library Files. (Mac G4 733mhz running OSX.2.1) I have reloaded those programs but Bryce eventually claims the files and this prevents me from loading plugins in Lightwave. Haven't noticed what it might be doing in Poser 'cause I've been covered up in LW. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Anyone know how to fix it? And if you don't do you know who I could ask. Thanks for reading. deci6el

Never had that problem before. also running 10.2.1

Maybe the B5 patch corrects this? I've never had that problem.

New to me, too, but may be a Mac only quirk.

If it was PC, I'd ask you what those plugins have for extensions. Anyway, it usually happens if you have an extension like ... pst, for instance, used by a program. If you install another program that uses the same extension for something else, you'll notice that all the files with that extension became associated with the program later installed. the problem is, I think that Mac doesn't uses the associations like Windows. Nevertheless, have you tried deinstalling everything and then installing Bryce first and those two afterwards? How can Bryce claim folders BTW?

TRy this...go to START/SETTINGS/Control Panal/Folder Options. Click on the FILE TYPES and wait for the list to come down. Select the file type you want to change and then click the change button. You should be able to follow this through until you have change the icons attributed to the file type eg:BR5 you have trouble with. This is probably the long way to go about it, but it's all I can think of at the moment.

Sounds like you need to reassociate your extentions with the programs you want them to use. I could tell you how to do it on a PC but have no idea about Macs. In a PC you just shift-right-click on a file with the extension you wish to associate, select "open with" and pick the program you want to open it with.

imageio.ppc imageioEngine.ppc JpegReader.dll MtsWriter.dll PythonCore Above are the Poser files affected and the LW plug-ins are .p I have tried reloading, I have tried reassociating but Bryce continues to grab them. Thanks for the many answers. I will keep trying. deci6el

There's something really fishy going on here. Bryce has nothing to do with Python. ppc, my computer doesn't have them, so nothing to do with Bryce, either. (I don't have 4 with Power Pack.) Hmm, try going to Bryce picture import dialog and setting the plugins directory. the down-pointing triangle beside the picture.