Oh, I'm sure hoping that someone can help me out -
Earlier tonite, Poser just stopped working on me. It froze up when I was importing a .3DS file, so I had to close it down. After that, it wouldn't start up again. I tried two things:

1. opening a pre-existing Poser file I'd saved
2. opening a brand new, blank Poser document
   With both attempts, Poser runs thru all its start up scripts, etc, and just when the program itself is about to open, it quietly closes.
   So I copied my entire runtime to a folder on my desk top, then deleted Poser. Then I re-installed it. Now before I tried to open it, I went and looked in my brand new re-installed runtime folder, and oddly it looked like everything that I'd had there before deleting it, was still there. I thought that deleting and re-installing Poser would have wiped out all the extra stuff I'd added to it over the last year and a half, leaving me with a generic Poser runtime folder.
   That was strange enough, but when I tried to open Poser again, the same thing happened: it ran thru the startup scripts and then just closed. So deleting and reinstalling didn't help at all.
   So, I have two mysteries on my hands:
3. Why did the newly re-installed runtime folder look just like it did before I deleted Poser?
4. What's wrong with Poser? Why does it suddenly not work?
   I have Poser 5, and I've never had a problem like this.

I gotta have my Poser - can anyone clue me in?
Thanks,

Steve

Poser 7 introduced the unannounced feature of deleting your entire Runtime when you uninstall. Two things I can think of: One is that your “config.” file is cooked. Simply deleting the config. file should allow Poser to work again. Secondly, if you can’t locate a config file, manually deleting the Runtime, uninstalling and reinstalling Poser should fix things.

What I'd like to know is - what is that particular 3DS file?  Maybe someone can take a look at it.

BTW, best of luck.  Many have had seemingly mysterious Poser incidents over the years, most of which eventually get explained. 

If you deleted the runtime folder and still the old stuff is there then is not a Poser problem, it's a Windows problem.
Do you have an active restore?, corrupted files?

There have been cases where corrupt preference files case this sort of thing.

As they're not stored in the Runtime in P7 but under your "Document and Settings" directory, you need to remove these rather than the Runtime.

Poser 7 will delete your content in the runtime if you reinstall.  However, Poser 5 and 6 do not. So if  all you did was "copy" the runtime to another location on your hard drive, when you installed Poser 5 or 6, it just reinstalled all of it's own content over top of it's own content in the runtime, leaving your additions untouched.

My suggestion would be to not copy the whole runtime. Instead copy only the relavent folders such as the Geometries, Texures and library.....and perhaps any python scripts you have instealls.

Then uninstall Poser, and go to the Curious Labs or e-Frontier folder and delete what is left.  Reboot and then reinstall Poser.

Check that Poser is working before you move your content back to the runtime.

Okay - well, I'm not sure what happened. This all took place last night, and before I went to sleep, I shut my computer down. Today, it seems like Poser is working okay. Aside from my runtime content, it looks like a fresh install; when I open Poser, a P5 man opens up automatically.
It does look however, like Poser is having a hard time locating some texture files, etc. It's almost as if they got moved. I'm thinking of taking the runtime folder from my desk top, and placing it in my Poser 5 folder, to take the place of the runtime that's there now.
Don't know if I should though. I'm almost afraid to do anything like that, for fear it'll mess something up.
Just a series of weird Poser errors.....

*Acadia
"Poser 7 will delete your content in the runtime if you reinstall."

*Do they do this like that? No options? I'm glad I still did not buy Poser 7. Is it the same for Poser Pro?

There's no need to delete the runtime folder, it has no effect on Poser's behaviour;
What can have effect on Poser are their system files that are located in the Poser folder and noy within it sub directories.
There is a file Poser.rsr (I don't know in Poser 7) that if corrupted makes Poser do strange things.
This file contains the Poser cache where atr stored all your path information from your content.
Once I had a ´problem with Poser giving me the message "no enough disk space for making the render" and it was unable to render something small as 600x600; I solved yhe problem copying the Poser.rsr from a backup and Poser worked fine again even the backup copy was very old and from other computer.
I suppose if you delete Poser.rsr it will recreate a new and clean one, but I'm not sure......!!!

Reinstalling a service pack will fix Poser.rsr.
It will not fix the preference files and ini files.

I made the test, Poser does NOT recreate Poser.rsr, without it it doesn't open, the file must have something else inside than the file cache;

My own experience with wonky Poser behaviour ended up being something quite mundane: temp file accumulation. Deleted them, and Poser 7 acted like it should again. Dunno, too obvious? Probably tried that...

Attached Link: Wings 3d

Plus, you can get a free modeler that way...;)

Quote - *Poser 7 will delete your content in the runtime if you reinstall.

*Do they do this like that? No options? I'm glad I still did not buy Poser 7. Is it the same for Poser Pro?

They fixed this problem in P7 SR1.1
No reason to suspect that it's a problem with PPro.