The thousands of xml files is happening to me. I finally had to stop using Poser 8. I counted 18,000 in a 30 minute session with just loading the default scene that pops up.

That is to say, I just sat there and literally watched as files kept being created. Yet nothing was being worked on. I went outside for a few minutes and it was at 1,200. Thirty minutes later I came back and checked. 18,579.

I went back to Poser 7. 7 Does not exhibit this issue

I did notify SM about this issue.

Win7, 64bit. 8 gigs RAM, 10 gig swap file.

I just read the above post.. I am NOT on a mac. Repeat... this is a PC. :)

But it also happened in Vista/32bit, 4 gigs ram, 5 gig swap file.

My guess is the library they built trying to read the runtime folder and create the tree structure.

God only knows why the had to change this from Version 7 which worked just fine. Why would they use flash in a non-browser application is beyond me. Some programmer there obviously thought it would be cool but in fact it slows the entire interface down it seems to me. Aside from "Search" the entire library interface is terrible.

At this point until it's fixed I refuse to use P8 and have warned others about it.

I am using the latest SR as well. So no, it hasn't been fixed :)