Welllll not lost any more. I did copy the pz3 and change it to cr2 and it did load........in 9 minutes. Without the back ground it loaded in 6 minutes. Without the hair and background it loads in 30 sec. I had been watching Poser and when it was "not responding" I closed it down. This time I watched the task monitor and Poser was indeed running (it said it was not) but the mem use rate was slowly going up. When it got to 117,000kb the cpu use rate went to 0 and Poser was finished. Guess the bottom line is "just wait for it to finish" Thanks again for the help raptordude