Well the refresh folder is the only refresh in the GUI. SM did not ask for any other, so that's what they got. I didn't get too creative during implementation. But I can see the need as you describe. Maybe I can squeeze a Refresh button next to the "Showing Library", that would refresh an entire runtime, or all runtimes.

We'd need a new button to refresh an entire runtime, because there are times where you do not want to wait while it scans an entire runtime. Sometimes you just want it to scan one folder, and that is what the folder Refresh does. Or maybe it is OK to automatically refresh all categories for a runtime when you refresh any category for a runtime.

Oh, and the reason the old library seemed to refresh everything was not because it refreshed everything. It was because it hit the disk every time you changed the current folder or category you were looking at. That was how I used to refresh my materials when I use a script to generate new ones. I would switch from Materials to Lights and then back to Materials, causing Poser to re-scan the Materials folder.

The Poser 8 GUI does not scan the disk as you switch between runtimes or between categories. That is part of the reason it is so much faster to switch. It has everything in memory. Previous Poser versions were constantly hitting the disk, re-scanning stuff it already knew.

That's why I used to switch to lights. There was usually nothing in there, or very little, so it was a quicker switch away.

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