I'm not sure why you have to point Poser to the path each time you open the .pz3 file.

Where are your external runtimes located? Are they on the same drive as your poser program?

What files is Poser looking for?  Are they the daz morph files for the figures? Or is it all kinds of files for all kinds of things?

If you have them on an external hard drive but don't have the hard drive turned on when you start up Poser, Poser can't read the external runtime locations so it will open without the runtimes showing up.

Another way Poser won't be able to locate the paths is if you removed the runtime from the library before closing the program. If you try to open a .pz3 file that has used items from a runtime that isn't in the library, poser will ask for the path because it's searched it's bank of runtimes and couldn't find the item.

Also, if you deleted a runtime or moved it to a different location.

I have over 40 external runtimes and other than the 2 examples I gave above, I haven't had a problem with Poser locating files.

One thing to note is that when you create external runtimes, you should look through your external runtime libraries and make a copy of the !DAZ folder and paste it to the same location in your main poser runtime.

Anyway, if that doesn't help, can you post back with some more information.

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