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Hi all, Just a quick(!) one to tickle your brains. My Poser "Poses" library is slowly growing very long. I don't mind this but I'm finding that the names of the items inside it are growing shorter. The more I add the shorter they get! It's getting hard to figure out what's what when names are starting to get truncated. The attached image shows what I'm on about. Any insights or solutions? Thanks.

You have more than 256 folders in the library. It's a well known "feature" of P4/PP. You can either: Get rid of some folders by consolidating them into others or moving them into other libraries. Buy PBooost, which will allow you to arrange them in separate banks. Buy Poser 5, which has no such problems.

"Feature"?? Heh! Nifty feature...not! I'll check out PBoost. Thanks.

If you are thinking about getting PBoost, be sure to consider this line in the product info before you buy: "Users with XP/2000/NT especially with FAT32 drives, please see the information on the tutorial site referring to 'Folder Locks' which are known to sometimes occurr on these systems." I have a FAT32 drive on XP, and bought PBoost and cannot use it.

Bec, It's not that you can't use PBooost on your fat32 xp system, it's just that all your MAT pose files and CR2 file must have correct file references in them in order for PBooost to 'follow' where they are. So that if a texture is in a folder called, "mikeTextures" and the MAT file says that the texture is in a folder called, "michaelTextures", the system will lock because of the difference. (This apparently is a Poser4 problem rather than a PBooost problem. It has to do with how and what Poser reads when it's putting together the library menues.) SO, once you have all your MAT files and CR2 and PP2 files corrected (if necessary) everything will work. Hog's Correct Reference (free or pay version) will correct these references and then PBooost should work. I did my reference correction by "hand" with PBooost's deep file editor because the free Correct Reference sometimes miss-corrected references to textures that had the same name - like black.jpg and black.jpg for hair textures that were for different products... Good luck should you try it again. Dave

You'd be better off with an NTFS drive in Windows XP. You'd also be better off if you get CorrectReference to fix all the bad texture references. Poser will work faster, and PBooost will work also.

I'll be sure to get and run correct reference. As for NTFS, other than running Poser better, what is the advantage? I guess I wouldn't mind switching to that if it didn't mess up any of my other software, and/or actually made things run faster.

In a nutshell, NTFS is the better file system for your computer. IF/when you decide to switch, go to Start, Help, and then type NTFS to get the simple directions. Or, if you're like many of us, you might use that as an excuse to re-evaluate what is on your hard drive, back up important files, and reinstall Windows XP with NTFS to start, and all your software after that.

Bec, I run win 2k and for years had FAT32. My 2nd computer was running win 98 and I figured I'd keep both on FAT so I could switch drives in an emergency. Well, I upgraded 3 months ago, and my 1st computer became the 2nd, with the ex-2nd going out to pasture. So now that I'm running win 2k on both, I decided to switch to NTFS. Like..... WOW!!!! Night and f*&%ing day! I used to have to defrag a minimum of once a week, was plagued with weird crashes and freezes. Now both computers run like a dream on NFTS. Not only that, I can now divide my HDDs into smaller volumes (like having several drives in one HDD), and any defragging I do takes literally seconds instead of hours. I strongly advise you consider switching over. You can convert an entire drive very easily. Just make sure you have a back-up just in case. mac