There have been several props I've downloaded from free stuff (particularly Mylochka's Star Trek  hair props ... which  are very nice by the way) that won't load  into Poser 6. I thought it was because of a misdirect in the code (d drive instead of c etct) but Poser has a work arround in searching for the item if it can't find it.  What I suspect and I'd like varification on it is that some products made in newer versions of Poser have settings that Poser 6 cannot handle and therefore I get the dreaded, "Windows: No Disc" exception arror  and reference numbers.  It only makes sence that if the version of Poser I have can't read the file it would have to give some kind of message.  Poser guru's out there could you verify my suspitions.  I've recieved a gracious gift and don't want to insult the giver by just ...  not putting an image up without an explanation.  I may be disapointed, but by no means upset, it's the hature of the game.

Sinerely

Boni

Can you give a specific example of a freebie that causes this problem so that someone can take a look to see what might be causing trouble.

OF course.  Any of Mylochka's star trek hair pieces at ShareCG.  He said that  most people have no problem so I suspect it's a version issue.  Thank you.

Boni

I've taken a look at 2 hair pieces by him in a texteditor , and, indeed, he used at least 2 Poser version, 6 & 8.  However, an incorrect version will only flag made in a newer version warning.  I do not see an absolute runtime path, only relative pathways.

I've used Mylochka's hair in Poser 5 and Poser 6 without any issues other than sometimes the texture path was incorrect if I remember correctly on a few of the older hairs.  But once I fixed the files to the proper path, never had another issue.

Nothing's im possible but other than the version warning message, Poser's usually pretty good at simply ignoring what it doesn't understand in the code in the files. Can you post a screen shot of the error message and also what version of Windows? "No Disc" almost sounds like it's looking for a removable media drive that doesn't have media loaded. If you've looked at the file in a text editor and it's not looking for some oddball drive for the .obj or textures, then I'm not sure what the issue might be. Searching for : should locate any absolute paths I think - either that or search for .obj and then .jpg.

I'm seeing the following:

morphPmdFile E:RuntimeLibrarieshairMylochkaTraciV4 Traci Hair.pmd

textureMap "E:RuntimetexturesMylochka Hair TexturesTraciTraci_Plat.jpg"

Ditto on that Miz N. I installed the Traci hair and left the refs as they were. The MATs worked as is. I'm not sure I've ever paid attention to this before, but Poser resolves the references properly (or at least find the textures) no matter what bogus drive/folder information is listed, as long as the filename itself is correct - at least for absolute refs.

I don't have a drive E on my system, but using drives that I do have gave the same result. The only guess I can come up with is that it (obviously) tries the location given first and then goes to the existing Runtime. If the drive is a removable and there's no media in it, (it's quite possible that Boni has a drive E, that's a CD or DVD drive). If the search hits an empty drive, it may well throw a " No Disk There is no disk in the drive..." error and abort at that point.

I only have a floppy on this machine to test (yeah, it's that old) and I access a DVD/CD over the network. I tried changing the references to point to A: and I don't get an error, but it seems plausible that an optical, USB or a different OS or Poser version might behave as she describes. At any rate, if that's it, changing the path to relative should fix it.

Change E:yada yada to:

:Runtime:textures:Mylochka Hair Textures: