Hi, I was wondering... after a power failure i was unable to load my pz3 file. When i load it again, it show nothing, poser also saying nothing but no image at all.. Are there pz3 file repair/recover programs? TIA

I had the exact same problem, and am interested to hear of there is a solution. The Pz3 file still shows the same file size, but the render window and light control come up blank.

PZ3's can be hand-edited, right? If not, ignore my post and chalk me up to 'less than properly educated'. If you can open them in a text editor, you might try comparing the corrupt files to known good file inside the text editor; perhaps you may find a few offending lines that allow you at least open it to see your characters. Good Luck! Jack

FreeJack is correct, pz3 files are in plain text format and can be edited in a text editor. Sometimes it may be posible to repair the file, or at least extract posed characters, props, lights, ect, to help in reconstricting your document, but a fairly good understanding of Poser library file structure is probably needed to attempt this.

There are no "repair" programs that I am aware of.

Very much a shot in the dark, if you'll forgive the pun... but given what you say about the pz3 file remaining the same size and the problem being born of a power cut (during its use?)... I'm just wondering whether it might be worth deleting any temporary files you may find?

Already did that and found nothing. Okay its editable, its an text file.. but there isn;t an descent repair tool. so saving it from time to time should be an primitieve direction... So were to look for in the pz3 file? I dont have a clue and did all work AGAIN! So now i am looking for tools, which there aren't any, and if there is an auto save option, so at least i have an previous .bak or .sav or .at_least_i_have_something. Damn.. What do they in those Labs, i am realy Curious...

One more shot in the dark!! What happens if you rename the pz3 to a cr2 and attempt to load it from the figures library?

A final afterthought. You didn't say which version of Poser you're using. If it's Poser4 you're using, then there's a strong chance that the geometry rsr files (which P4 uses alongside the geometry object files) might well have got corrupted during the power failure. If that is the case then it may be good news, as your editing task will be simplified. You'll need to open the pz3 in a text editor, and search for all references to the object (.obj) files in use. Then open the containg folders on your hard drive and delete the rsr files which accompany these objects. Poser will regenerate new rsr files when you next open the pz3.

I use poser 5 I didn't try pz3 renaming to cr2 yet...