Quote - Everything shows up okay but some poses and mat pose/textures will not physically apply to a figure in P8 ? 

This may or may not be the problem you are experiencing but...
It has been reported that there is a bug in the library reading programming that makes it refuse to read files with capitalized extensions. i.e. thing.cr2 works but thing.CR2 does not.

as i understand, it is known and fixed for the upcoming hot fix or SR.

Quote - For my 2 pence of input............ P8 libraries really need a "CLOSE ALL FOLDERS" button, this oversight is as annoying as the P7 libraries springing back to the top folder every time you closed one at the bottom of the library.

that sounds like a great feature to add. you should send it to them.

Quote - And also why can't the libraries use the old rsr thumbs ?

according to the readme: Due to fundamental architectural changes in Poser 8 that have removed legacy code, and improved overall performance in many areas across the application, the old Poser 4 renderer and automatic RSR Library thumbnail conversion to PNG has been discontinued.

 

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