And Poser is not at fault. You are ignoring a few not-so-small points... such as that you can store files not only outside Poser, but in other partitions and even on other computers. Right now I'm experimenting with having Poser on a Mac Mini accessing my old Runtime on a G4... and once I get this router thing set up, it ought to find the characters I made on the Windows box too. If people have multiple Runtimes, for multiple projects, how is Poser to know which version of a character they are looking for? Right now Judy is resting on 3 machines: if Poser needs a texture for a character pack, I would rather that it asked, rather than that it assumed. Textures don't need to be "installed" at all... and it keeps a leaner, lighter, faster Runtime if you don't fill it with useless MATfiles and extra textures. And you missed my essential point. If the DAZ installer doesn't put the files in the right place, it is a DAZ problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They have a Forum. If it was a CL installer, I'd gladly blame them, but it isn't. It is a DAZ installer. And they have a looooong record of sloppiness when it comes to installers (at least 5 year's worth). They are constantly rewriting it, but not fixing it. They have to fix their taxonomy first. "Character" is not the same as "Characters" or "character". Sloppy. I got tired of the endless searches for things they had misplaced. Unless you the customer tell them there is a problem, they won't know, and won't fix it. And blaming the wrong company won't fix it at all. Carolly