That sounds like an awful lot of CR2s one would have to >change doesn't it? Yeah, I know, it does not sound right and I do not think that is what DAZ wants to happen, but it does seem to fix the problem for me. I was looking at the log.txt file for DS and was watching what and where it fails. It seems that DS relies quite a bit on the 'content' and poser folders for pathing instructions when importing files. This seems a bit risky to me, but I suspect it will eventually make DS a bit more bullet proof for the majority of users. Since I use mostly custom folders and keep virtually all parts of a model in that folder, it causes a problem for me. I do not much care for being locked into preset folders and paths. :) Of course this is an Alpha, and I am using W2k pro that I geek pretty deeply, so I am looking into some of the esoterical things that I have done to Win2k. But I always get suspecious when I see 'string messages' using the / in the path name. Sometimes it can indicate a programming oversight elsewheres and then again it may just be the way the error message was coded to display. Overall I am impress with DS and certaintly DS will continue to improve as DAZ has dedicated themselves to this program, I am sure they will be successful. BabaLouie