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Did you try to make a shortcut of "P6 runtime", named just "runtime", and mount this shortcut in P8?

Thanks for the suggestion.  I'm afraid I don't see a way to make that work though.  Poser wants to link to a folder.  It doesn't recognize shortcuts.

It just seems really odd that the acceptability of a runtime link would be dependent on the name of the folder.

You don't select the "Runtime" you select the folder that contains it. I'm confused by what you're saying. For example, to attach all the content in

c:FooBarRuntime...

You select c:FooBar and the GUI says this is Bar. If you're saying you have:

...P6 RuntimeRuntime

and you're choosing to add P6 Runtime, then it should work. However, if P6 Runtime does not contain a RuntimeLibraries folder it should not work.

Thanks for the message, BB.  I've always kept my main runtime folder as e:P6 Runtime.  All previous releases of Poser have allowed me to link to that runtime even though there are no levels in the path which just say "runtime." 

So to access my main runtime in P8, I had to add another directory level, so it now reads E:P6 Runtimeruntime... (libraries, etc). 

This has caused me to have to relink all my textures and geometries which used relative references which, in turn, has caused several days worth of headaches. 

An earlier poster also suggested that the widespread use of relative references requires that "runtime" be one of the named levels in the path, but I just don't see why that is necessary.  It always worked in previous releases without that hard constraint.

OTOH, maybe I'm the only one without "runtime" at some level of the path in each of my runtimes, so I'll just have to adjust.  Then the headaches wil go away.

Regards...