Question: What does a PCF file do? And which folder does it stay in? Thanks.

It's an encoded object file which can only be used if you have the original from which it is derived. It's a way of distributing a morphed object while ensuring the recipient has the original, and is therefore a means of preventing copyright infringement. The file can be placed absolutely anywhere, as it's not specific to any internal Poser functions; it's used by a utility called Objaction Mover.

okay.. thanks.

Objaction Mover on the PC and Macconverter on the Mac will look at the .pcf file and check to see if you have the right "seed file". Suppose that a birdwoman figure calls for the DAZ eagle wings? The person releasing the figure can't give away or sell wings belonging to somebody else, so they put this sort of file in there. If you already have the Eagle >>>installed<<<, the wings will be found, and then the birdwoman will load in correctly. Note that I discovered that the seed files have to be installed first because I tried to install Bloodsong's hawk expansion pack and ran into a blip. I'd bought the dadburned eagle at least a year prior, but it had never actually been installed and sitting in the library. Make sure to do things in the right order and don't assume that something is in there "somewhere". Otherwise you will have to uninstall and do it right anyway. The above-mentioned decoders allow us users to have many more figures while protecting the guys who modeled the original pieces and single click conversion (at least on the Mac) is pretty painless. Carolly

It's hard when you try to install (from reform) a file, only to find out you need to find the base file installer which resides elsewhere in your collection of backups. I think the best solution is to install them into a single runtime and zip it and through out the daz installers. It gets worse... imagine if you had 100 files, plus 80 updates (assumiing you keep your files updated, of course). That's 80 files too many!