after recovering from a hard drive failure i reinstalled CR Pro II only to have it eat some of my cr2 files. after downloading the latest update it is now unable to decompress files and refusing to scan the rest.

Ive tried contacting the maker, but he has not responded and does not appear to have logged into his own forums in over a year.

so what now?

I need a program to correct references

and to collect items and their associated files to make zips for distribution.

For distribution, I always create new content in a clean new blank runtime.

And using multiple runtimes properly, I rarely if ever come across any need for reference correction. I can't recall one issue in two years now.

The collectSceneInventorary script works well. May be able to use that as a starting point.

 So it's not just me who has wondered what happened to Hogwarden?

I had CR2 Pro eat half my runtime once. And my backup wasn't all that new of course :(

When it works, it's great, but when not.. well.. 

You may be able to salvage some of your files though, the [something].tmp files are actually zips in a lot of occasions. I got most of my files salvaged that way, manually unzipping and renaming them.

But I'd like to know what happened.. I could do with a new version of PBooost as well...

fortunately i lost very little and i have already redone the work.

if anybody lives southwest of London, we could send someone to knock on his door :P

I have a utility that checks references , it does a simple check of all geometry and image files. 
I would have to add compressed file handling to it, but thats not too hard.
If Hogsoft is going away *I will dust it off .

I'm pretty sure Poser Organizer will do what CR Pro did, and more.  And it is currently supported.

I do miss my hogsoft, though.

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I was thinking that Dimension3D would be sure to have something to fit the bill, too. I don't currently own the Organiser, but I didn't get on very well with CRpro, so I'd be interested to hear from those who've used both.

Well, as a user of both... here's my feelings:

CR Pro made me feel more comfortable, I don't know why... but it was slow and creaky, and sometimes seemed to "correct" the same problems over and over again.

Poser Organizer does a lot of different things, and I have used it to "organize" my runtimes quite a few times since purchasing it.

I believe POrg does at least as good of a job as CR Pro at fixing references (I find myself trying to remember if it can handle obj files in the library folder -- who's stupid idea was that, anyway? -- and I can't remember if it does), and its a lot faster.  Doesn't have the db overhead that CR Pro has, but also doesn't have some of the tools that require that (unreferenced files tool).

D3D makes great tools.