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Subject: Poser Pro hanging on startup

IsaoShi opened this issue on Apr 09, 2009 · 6 posts
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IsaoShi ( ) posted Thu, 09 April 2009 at 6:15 PM · edited Thu, 28 November 2024 at 6:57 PM

Well, I suppose it had to happen to me too, eventually...

A hard Poser Pro crash during a small shadow-only render, and now my Poser Pro won't open at all. It just hangs on the splash screen, using 100% CPU and showing 'Not responding' in Activity Monitor.

I've deleted/renamed/moved all sorts of files like LibraryPrefs, PoserPrefs, preferredstate.pz3, etc.... restarted my Mac. No change.

Please, can anyone suggest what else I should try before I resort to re-installing?

"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)

IsaoShi ( ) posted Thu, 09 April 2009 at 8:54 PM

Don't worry, I re-installed.
Dearest Moderators, you might as well delete this thread now, please.
I think everyone's gone to bed. Quite right too.

"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)

markschum ( ) posted Thu, 09 April 2009 at 9:27 PM

Only suggestion I would make is to confirm what location those files are kept in . On win xp in poser 7 they moved from the program library to documents and settings/user/application data/poser 7. I have no idea if a Mac does something similar.

ratscloset ( ) posted Thu, 09 April 2009 at 9:51 PM

The other thing to try is deleting Preferences. That will often allow you to get Poser back after something strange. Reinstall is always last resort.

ratscloset
aka John

Miss Nancy ( ) posted Thu, 09 April 2009 at 10:01 PM

o.k., before they delete it, sorry to hear of this.  first time I've seen this here for OS 9 or OS X.  but just a word of caution: it may signify directory damage, hence be sure all is backed up and a spare drive is available to recover the disk with poser on it.  experts in mac forum will know more, as usual.


IsaoShi ( ) posted Fri, 10 April 2009 at 4:35 AM · edited Fri, 10 April 2009 at 4:36 AM

Thank you, markshum and ratscloset and Miss Nancy.

For the record, on Mac the preferences are in /Library/Preferences/Poser Pro. I already (effectively) deleted all the preferences by moving these files to a backup location before restarting Poser.

The problem was isolated to Poser Pro. Poser 7 and everything else still worked fine, so I'm sure it was just something that broke within PPro when my render crashed.

Anyway, it's all okay now after a re-install, and I just have to recover all the bits and pieces from my old Runtime. Most of my content is in external libraries anyway, so it's only the scripts and stuff that must be installed in the main runtime.

I could have tried re-installing Poser Pro over the old installation, but it was getting late and I was tired and I just wanted to see it working again so I could sleep easy. How sad is that? :O)

"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)

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