I have for a long time had P5 and P4 living quite happily together on the same drive, with linkage between the libraries. However, just recently my boot disk started to die and I had to rapidly shift everything onto a new disk. Now I find that if I try to reopen a PZ3 file done in P5 it tries to load into P4 and hangs up the machine. I would appreciate it if someone could tell me what is fouled up here. Thanks in advance. Regards, David

Try this:-

• Right click the file in Windows Explorer
• Select "Open With"
• Either select Poser 5 if its listed or click "Choose Program" to brows for it.
• Then click the selection to "Always open with this application

If that was the problem then this will be the solution. If its something different then ... errr ... ummmm ???? :)

PhilC,
Thanks for the response. I tried that but Win Explorer seems to be the root of the problem, it only lists P4 for some reason. However, I tried importing a PZ3 file into P5 and that seems to work okay, so there is a work around.

It may only list P4 but if you "Choose Program" and use the Browse button can you select P5?

Unfortunately, no. I should have said so in my first response but neglected to so say. I tried it several times without effect. Thank you for your attention, I guess I will just use the "import" route for the time being. David

If you just copied everything, the registry might not know it is there. Have you tried "add program" ?

As suggested by someone off line, I backed everything up and then reinstalled the P5 program. That fixed the problem. Watching the backup I discovered that somehow, I have no idea how, I had ended up with two copies of the P5 executable file with differing URLs and suspect that was the root cause, just confused the machine I guess. Thank you to those who offered suggestions.