I've had Poser crash during saves after setting up figures. It's very frustrating. I've also had corrupt saves. That destroys your work as well. 

My advice is to save versions of your figure every time you do anything significant in the Setup process. This will prevent the sort of failures that eradicate every bit of your work and you can fall back to a previous version when the inevitable malfunction occurs. 

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