Hi all - i have recently (less than a day ago) purchased a mac - so i downloaded the poser dmg for it from daz and then the update from poser site, installed them both, and it just wont load, every time i try to start it, it gives me an error about an unexpected event (error escapes me atm as im on windows pc).

I thought it may have been the update as it shows it as a 60+meg file but when the update is ran it looks like 6meg - i thought i may have a bad download so i grabbed the file again - no difference.

I decided to reinstall poser and not use the update - it worked but only a few times before i got that error again. Is there something i need to install or turn on/off.

Totally new to Mac so any help is grateful.

Thanks

Best you contact Poser support at Smith Micro.
http://my.smithmicro.com/cgi-bin/support_links.pl?psr

Totally off your topic, since you have a brand new MAC I recommend that you go in and adjust your monitor's gamma.  Apple boasts a native setting of 1.8 while the rest of the electronic world as set the standard to 2.2.  Yeah, that bright monitor is alluring but is drastically incorrect for viewing digital photographs and web pages.

FYI, the new Snow Leopard OS has a native gamma of 2.2 so it's a moot point for people who are using 10.6. As an aside, I have noticed that my non-Apple monitor is noticably darker than the Mac display even after setting the gamma, and adjustment / contrast. I haven't calibrated it yet because I don't have one of those sensor things.

As far as the OP, I have no issues installing Poser 7 from SmithMicro download. Sounds like an unusual problem. Try checking the permissions on the installed executable and its folders. If they're set to "read only" and you're trying to write (a PMD, update an ini file, whatever) one could see those sorts of issues.

snow leopard isn't out till September from what  i have read - only beta versions are floating about, as to my issue - i think it may be a corrupted preferences file, i will see after i have installed a few things

I would try this, Restart your Mac, go into your Utilities Folder and find the Disk Utility program
Run the Repair Disk Permissions.

HD>Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility

I have experienced strange things with NEW software loads, ever since I switched to to 10.5 and the periodic updates,  

Running a Repair Disk Permissions seem to remedy 99% of the issues.

i have done that - googled the issue and that came up - would you advise doing that after i have installed my whole content (have just finished re-downloading a lot of it) - it seems to be ok atm mind you i ran the utility then reinstalled poser and the update.

Quote - i have done that - googled the issue and that came up - would you advise doing that after i have installed my whole content (have just finished re-downloading a lot of it) - it seems to be ok atm mind you i ran the utility then reinstalled poser and the update.

Your content should not be effected by permissions, but it will not hurt anything either way. :)

The biggest thing to get into the habit of doing with Poser, is to make sure you SAVE, SAVE, SAVE and Backup, Alot. If you run a Time Machine it is painless to backup.

external drive - htpc machine - and laptop all have copies of the most important stuff - so i should be fine.

Thanks to all for the information, most helpful to a new mac user like myself

Bit of a bump but i found the issue, it was me!! :blushing: - seems that I assumed copying over a folder would be the same as on windows (which it is obviously) but when it says replace folder it does just that deletes everything in the folder with the one you copy over, so i was wiping out things poser required and when it couldn't find them it had a head fit.

Now when i copy things by hand and to the separate folders all is fine :)

 Dont adjust your gamma (you will end up with unrealistic monitor settings for the system you have- its build for 1.8, you will give up your crisp display)-  install all updates then it will run. Your problem is using external morph targets - switch it off in preferences. This was a problem for the early P7 version and has been fixed only partially in the updates. But by doing this it will run.

2.2 gamma looks better than 1.8 and is the default in 10.6 which i will be getting soon, my mac is rather new :)

I am not sure if you still have the issue, but if so, it could be Permissions.. Contact Support with the Error Details and they should be able to help out.

With regards to the MAC Overwriting Folders, that is something Window Users need to understand before they lose everything installed by moving one folder and file.

For extracting ZIP Files, you may want to check out Stuffit Expander. It has a Merge Option, which allows you to extract Files to the target location without Overwriting.

no the issue is sorted now, was my fault :)