I got a new computer, with Windows 7, had an External Runtime. But when I installed Poser, it cannot find the files, even thogh I try to add the Runtime. Any help would be appreciated!

Is the runtime added now?  If it is then try setting your search to deep in poser preferences.

Love esther

It says it is added, however, when I try to open someting, it says files not found. Thanks.

okay set your search to deep.

It is set to deep. Could it be that I have too much stuff in the Runtime? I am still using Poser 7

in OS X and Win7, poser's inability to find files that are known to exist may sometimes be attributed to permissions problems or insufficient privileges.

How can that be fixed? And thanks. :-)

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Thanks so much. :-)

In Windows, to avoid such problems completely, you may want to have your Poser folder outside of the Program Files folder (preferably in another HD or partition than the one in which Windows is installed).

I changed the 'read only' for the folders, but it still is not loading my external runtime......I will try that, thanks. :-)

It's a bug from Windows Vista that managed to survive the Windows Seven version... Check the folder you changed from read-only, it's probably set as read-only again. Just avoid it altogether and get your Poser and external runtimes away from any Program Files folder ;)

Okay, I am at my wit's end.....thinking I may have to re install everything again....will take forever.....lol....I did take a lot of files out of the Runtime but that did not help......thanks for the help!

My work around is having an extremely light and fast file search utility called Everything  that finds my files for me. Then I just paste the address in the dialogue with the file name.

Thanks. I have tried everything I know, installed in different places, and nothing helps.......

Then it is time to get a screencap of your runtime hierarchy and location.  Descriptions are inadequate to pinpoint the problem.

I also have 104 gigs in that Runtime, is that too many?

Why do I see a Runtime Directory within a Runtime Directory?!? That could be part of your problem! Are you linking to the wrong runtime by chance? Which one actually contains your content in it?

Also check that the hard drive letter didn't change after you installed the runtime. That sometimes happens when you plug drives in and out of the computer.

Two things, I see a runtime folder sitting alone on the hard drive, not placed within another folder as you typically find in all runtime cases.  And, as SteveJax points out, you have a nested runtime within a runtime.  That is not easy to pickup unless you have PP 2010 where I have seen such an unusual occurrance.

Yes! It is fixed...I have absolutely no idea how that other Runtime got into that folder! But when I deleted that, Poser loaded the files......thanks so much for all the help given, it is SO appreciated!

Next time just drag those other Runtime folders to where they should be (in that case, your J hard drive). If that second Runtime contained any content you installed wrong, you just deleted it instead of fixing its location...

I see many small problems that could become issues for you eventually... Mind fixing everything to have a clean Runtime?

1. You have "Runtime" in the root of your hard drive. Is it treated as an external Runtime? If not, then I'd think your Poser installed files are messed with other files in that HD. In case that's not an external Runtime, you might want to make a Poser 7 folder there, drag the Runtime into it, and reinstall Poser to that folder you created.

2. Do you have a lot of space in that hard drive? If so, it's always better to have a single Runtime, Poser will get less confused with the location of files. Drag and drop all your Runtime instances to that folder, have Windows replace files only if they are newer than the previous.

A problem I'm encountering more often than ever lately is improper file heirachy structures in compressed files. Here's an example of the right way to do it:

Runtimelibrariespropsjimmyprops

This is incorrect: jimmychairlibrariespropsjimmyprops

The second compressed file will create a folder Poser will never recognize.

In the past few months I've encountered dozens of this sort of basic error, and I've only given you a very mild example. Now I only rarely encounter a file capable on one click installation, and am forced to decompress into a temporary folder and sort the mess out by hand for manual installation.

This may not be the only cause of the problems you've been having, but I'm sure it isn't helping.

The runtime structure for people seems to be such a source of confusion. I don't know why it isn't discussed in detail in the documentation. As soon as you understand how the structure needs to be laid out, and you realize that not every vendor or freebie provider creates their content properly, these issues go away.

I install everything (extracted zips, Daz installers, etc ) to a dummy runtime. Then I can look at the file structure and rename folders in the libraries to keep organized before I just move the whole runtime into the ones that I actually use. I'd never be able to find anything if I didn't.

I don't why such intelligent people who can create elegant and complex models can't get this simple process right. I'm a total moron, and it seems quite straight forward to me.

Meh.

I had the files on J Drive, then copied to the C drive on the computer, in case something happened to one, I would have the other...I now have Poser getting the files from that computer folder.........J drive is an external drive for storage. There is so much I would like to take out of Poser; I have so many files in there for Vicky 3 I never use, but am afraid I would not get all the parts....and I have bought so much stuff from the Renderosity Market place and Daz, that it would take me forever to install them again.......my runtime is really a mess...but at least I am happy I can now do Poser again with my external Runtime......I do not use the figures that come with the program, is it okay to remove those?