Hi,

I just upgraded to Poser 8, and am Running 32 bit Vista Basic. I save all of my render files into the same folder that I install Poser into. Most of my files are still in my Poser 7 folder, but I'm starting to create and save documents to my Poser 8 folder. When I installed poser 8 I chose to install content to the shared documents directory, as I still use UAC. However, I still save my files to the poser folder in the program files directory.

When I save scene files to my poser folders (C:/programfiles/smithmicro/poser8) and (C:/programfiles/efrontier/poser7),  the files are invisible when looking for them outside of Poser. I have turned on show invisible files in folder settings and I still can't see them. When opening files through poser, they show up fine and I can open them. But when I am looking for then in Windows Explorer, they are nowhere to be found. This is annoying, as I would like to back up these files, but can't get to them.

Long term the solution I think is to start saving files elsewhere, such as a folder on the desktop, or in my documents folder, as they show up fine there. Having been able to save files to my poser folder for years, It will take a bit of getting used to, but I'll cope. However, I am completely lost on how to get at the files I currently have for backup purposes without copying the whole directory. 

Any help or insight anyone has would be great.

Thanks,

-ST

If you've checked 'Show hidden files, folders and drives'  in your Folder Options dialogue, and you don't see any files, they're not there. But you can open them in Poser - you must be looking in the wrong place.

When opening in Poser make a careful note of the full path to the files (C:/Program Files/ - etc.) and look there.

As you say, the long term solution is to save stuff somewhere else.

Well, why are you wondering that you don't see the files outside of Poser when you've got UAC enabled?
If Poser tries to write to the Program files folder (assuming you didn't start it with Admin rights), Windows redirects all writes to a virtual store folder. That's where you have to search them...

This was discussed in a recent thread. As Dizzi says, it is a UAC issue. If Vista has the compatibility files option, that may help but the best solution is indeed not saving to Windows protected folders.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2786955

Vista or Windows 7 prevent you to "write" where you want .

All saves from almost all programs go onto a "users", app data, then sometimes, local, roaming, or other, and there is a Virtual Store with all your files from your different Apps. it is an Operating system thing.

Takes some getting used to, just pay atention as there could be a problem for some.
Open a texture in Photoshop. Change it and save it back into Alyson's folder. (That is what you see). In real world, photoshop saved it to the Virtual store.)
Open Poser, attach the new texture to Alyson in the material room, (it is visual in the normal texture folder), and render. No problem, all is well.

But when you render in a separate process; the texture will NOT render.
For FFrender.exe does not have the same "rights" as Poser.exe does..
For FFRender.exe to render the changed texture, you will manualy have to copy it back with a file manager.
Only those that use FFRender will see this happening ( those who render in a separate process)
Hope this helps.