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.