*>>The files are produced all the time, even when you're doing nothing, because the GUI is polling the Poser server, asking it if it has any news, such as we're in the setup room and it should only show figures, or that you've selected a prop, so the "save a prop" button should be enabled.

The polling happens 4 times per second. It is done with an HTTP POST, which means it should not be cached, because it is a command, not a simple request for information, and so the response is expected to be different every time.<<*

This is the one thing that DOES bother me about the concept. I don't care that they are cached, or left over on my drive.

That is not, was not the reason I removed P8 until I found a solution.

I removed P8 (but put it back on now) because I felt I didn't want ANY application writing that many files to my drive, cached or not.

Now maybe I'm not understanding... and I tried to clarify this with SM Tech (JohnC)... 

But ultimately my concern was... if it's normal that in excess of 18,000 files would be written to my HD (whether they get removed by poser later is besides the point)... or should these communications be done soley in RAM or in one large temp file etc.

I<< don't want that many files written to my drives. Cached or not, clear out later or not. To me, that's excessive. 500. 2,000 maybe. Especially if they were kept and reused. But 15 or 18 thousand? Not on my drive if I can help it.

So that was really my base question (not to you, but just in general)... is that normal to write and that many files in one session. It's not whether they sometimes get cleared or sometimes don't. I don't care about that last part.

The files size the files take up is of no concern to me. It's usually only about 2 or 3 megs since each file is 1k.

It's simply the sheer number, over and over again.

So I guess if the solution or fix ends up being that the files are still being created and just remobed, to me, that doesn't really address my concern, but it may simply be a limitation of app you're developing and there's nothing that can be done about it.

My poser runtime folder has 56,000 files in 2300 folders. Ultimately,..I don't know.. but the application may not be up to the task of dealing with such a large number of files. I really don't know.