I've just started playing around with Poser 6 on a iMac. I've noticed a few purchased items are not displaying thumbnails. On my winows machine they appear, but not on the Mac. Any ideas why this would be happening?

Attached Link: http://www.soft-rabbit.de

Try converting your files with Poser Maconverter (freeware) - click on the attached link. Windows and Mac poser files have a different way to display thumbnails, maconverter should fix it. It requires Classic to run (is for Mac Os 9 only). Unzip your files in a temporary folder, drag this to the maconverter window and click on convert. Hope this helps.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/freestuff.ez?Form.Contrib=fmorgan&Topsectionid=0

Use fmorgan's PoserMacConverter Lite in Renderosity freeware (http://www.renderosity.com/freestuff.ez?Form.Contrib=fmorgan&Topsectionid=0)

The old maconverter runs only in Classic (you'd need OS 9 installed, which not everyone has nowadays), and creates old-fashioned file resources. PoserMacConverter changes the archaic PC-specific .rsr files into portable .png files, and runs in Mac OS X native.

fmorgan also sells a MacPoserBrowserPRO package in the marketplace that will help with installation as well. I bought it, but for installation I usually just use "ditto -xk *.zip /Applications/Poser 6" from a Terminal window. (But be careful that the zip is really rooted at "Runtime"; some are at "libraries", while a very few include the enter PC Poser application path from "Program FilesPoser 6...".)

Aside from the crufty rsr files, very few Poser zip packages require any "conversion" at all (and no rationally packaged P5/P6 packages, which have png previews). For P5 and P6, maconverter, as useful as it was for years, is overkill, even aside from requiring Classic. Curious Labs kept the Mac and PC versions of Poser 4 pointlessly and artificially incompatible (and even worse that pesky PC-specific rsr file is actually a Mac-specific file format deliberately broken so the Mac won't read it). For PP and P5, they wised up and stopped doing that.

Ah, thanks to both of you!! I did try the freeware version that requires OS 9. That did work on my lapop which does have 9 installed. To use it I'll have to install OS 9 on my iMac, so I may try PoserMacConverter. The freestuff link no longer works, so I'll have to buy the $5 verison in the store. A small price to pay. Thanks again!!!!

The freestuff link no longer works

Huh. You're right. I suspect that if you get in touch with fmorgan through his member page, you could get a corrected link. However, I'm certainly not going to try to discourage you from giving him $5 encouragement for his past and hypothetical future efforts. ;-)