Hello again... I just had to do a full restore on my PC, due to a few problems I had. I zipped up and recorded to CD all my Poser Geometries and Libraries, in which I had a number of characters which I downloaded and made myself. Now when I try to open them into Poser 4, I get the error message, " Cannot locate shortcut to ..." Whatever it is doesn't matter, but it IS an .obj file, and it's NOT one of the basic geometries. I have these files, but they are not in the right place where Poser is looking for them, and I can't remember where they were, hierarchy-wise, in my former installation. I know, however, that Poser knows where it's looking to find these files, and I'm wondering if there is a way to find out the specific folder that Poser is looking in before telling me it can't find them. This information HAS GOT To exist somewhere within the various files. Question is, how do I access it? Thank you! Mike

Well one place to look is in the .cr2 file. Right at the top and located a little further down list the path to the file, for example in the catsuit .cr2 it is listed like this: figureResFile :Runtime:Geometries:Poser4Clothes:Suits:blcatsuit.obj The folders holding your object is Poser4Clothes>Suits where your blcatsuit.obj is. Now I'm on a Mac, so it might look a little different, but I believe its basically the same. Did you backup your .obj files outside of their original folders? If not, this may not be the answer. Good luck.

Thank you for the suggestion... I just discovered that I can battle the error message by continuing to press Enter or hit Okay, and after 20-45 times doing it, the character will load into Poser 4. Then, if I save it into the library right after that, the next time I won't get the error messages, so if this is what I have to do, so be it. It seems to be working every time. I already tried opening the cr2 files in Word Pad, and I don't think it had what I was looking for, but I'll try again... I probably just missed it, especially if it was at the top of the document. Thanks again! Mike

If it is a geometry file that it cannot find, then it will open with no figure (or something strange). What you describe is the behavior for lost textures. For those, Poser "looks" in the location where the tex was, when the CR2 or PP2 was saved to library. If the tex line in the materials section of the CR2 is: ":TEXTURENAME.EXT" it will "look" in the same library folder where the CR2 file is. If the character is one that uses an exclusive texture(s) this is a good place to store those textures (ie textures not used by multiple characters.) If you do that, you can move the library files in and out of Poser with no problem, it will always "know where to look" and you can store the CR2 and the textures off site when not in use. (You can also put the OBJ file in this same folder as long as the 2 geometry call lines point to this location.) As far as Poser location restrictions are concerned, the exact location of textures and geometry files are not constrained, you tell Poser where they are and it goes there every time. The CR2 (character) PP2 (prop) HR2 (hair) PZ2 (pose) etc ARE constrained by Poser. In the various library folders, it will only find files with the required extensions.