I've tried importing as well as opening. Same result.

What do you mean by linking runtimes? I've copied all the P4, P5 and P6 geometries i(and a few others) nto the P7 geometry folder. I don't think I need to do anything with the rest of the runtime folders unless I want this figure to appear in the list of figures. Or do I? i don't get the problem with DAZ figures.

Whatever the cause or solution, I'm disappointed that Poser crashes completely rather than giving an error message and then dying gracefully.

If I've still got a P2 figure I'll try one of them too.