A while back, I came across a thread explaining why the victoria MFD loaded so slowly. It was because the CR2 was in MAC format, which slowed it down on WIN systems. I loaded the file into wordpad, saved as..and wordpad formatted the file to WIN format. Anyway, now the MFD loads almost 3 times as fast as before. My question is, does anyone know a way of determining whether or not the CR2 files are in MAC format, if not, could anyone reading this point me in the direction of the thread that had the information? (I know this is a longshot, but I'm fishing in the dark here.) Thnx

Interesting. I never knew that about the MFD. AFAIK, pose files which are MAC friendly use : instead of / as a separator. Maybe CR2 files do the same. Apologies if that's a wild goose chase; it seemed like a logical idea.

Text files (which is what all uncompressed Poser files are) use 'special characters' to denote line endings. In the Windows/DOS world, CR+LF (0x0D+0x0A) is the two character sequence that does this. In Mac world, CR (0x0D) is the one character sequence for this. The problem may be an exacerbation caused by a lot of lines expecting to end in Windows format, but being in Mac format. One result may be that it sees the entire file as one long line and tries to create a buffer for that one line and read that one line into that large buffer instead of using the more speedy, memory-conscious single line reading. Make sense?

This happens with Poser5 or Poser4????

both as far as I can tell. All my daz products are in poser 4 with the runtime accessed externally by poser 5. The files loaded faster in both programs.

Correct Reference Pro corrects this (at list that's what the dialog box says to explain why my computer is busy).