How do I add content zip. files I purchase from Renderosity to Poser 9.  I load them the same way I did in Poser 7 but they don't appear in my Library? 

Poser 9 content arrangement (main runtime) was changed to respect the fact that with Vista or Windows 7 UAC enabled, programs are not allowed to poke stuff into Program Files. The reason is: the same behavior (poking into program files) is what a virus does.

I can't really tell you what to do unless I know what OS you have, and which main runtime location choice you made at install time.

If you took the default, your main runtime is split. Program stuff (scripts, software libraries - dangerous things to modify) are still in the runtime found inside of your Poser program folder, below where the executable is kept. That is not where content goes. If you put content there, Windows will move it to a safer place and not let you put it where you said to put it, and furthermore, Poser isn't looking there for content.

The main content runtime is, by default, located in "My Documents".

For me, in Poser Pro 2012 (same strategy) it is in:

C:/Users/Ted/Documents/Poser Pro 2012 Content

and not

C:/Program Files/Smith Micro/Poser Pro 2012

But here's my advice.

Don't put add-on content in your main runtime at all. Mixing your default content that you get with Poser and your add-on content makes things difficult. When you get to 50 GB of content you will be really sorry you did that.

Use external runtimes.

You would add it the same as P7, no different.  If you are adding while P9 is open, you will need to refresh the Library.  If you are using a PC with Windows 7 and you are adding content into a runtime within Program Files, then Windows UAC will most certainly interfere with this process. 

But we need more information before we can proceed.

Edit: Crossposted with BB.

THIS is the reason we REALLY needed that wiki. Thanks RO.

Laurie

I normally "flame on" a little bit in this case, but the poster was a first timer so I gave consideration to that.

Welcome Hergt!

We get this question almost every day, so we're all a little bit annoyed that Renderosity took away the Wiki where we put frequently answered questions.

Sorry to trouble you again but I am still having difficulty adding content to my Poser 9 Library that I have downloaded.  I haveWindows Vista with SP2.  I have now installed Poser 9 not in Programs but on the C drive. I am able to add Poser 7 runtime to my Poser 9 library.  Vistas administrator is turned off.  Now when I try and place a zip. file and unzip it either under Poser 9 or the download file it does not appear in either most times.  Inked 8 works this way but will only appear in the Poser 9 library but not in the download library part.  Other zip. files don't appear at all.  When I used Poser 7 is simply downloaded the zip file under either Pozer 7 or its download file I unzipped it and the content appeared in my library.  Everything I try and place in the Poser 9 download file does not appear.  So with out taxing your patience what am I doing wrong. 

I don't know what you're doing. Your words imply things that may not be what you're doing.

And we don't know what the product you're installing is doing right or wrong.

If, for example, you have a zip file that begins at the top with:

Runtime

And you wish to merge that with:

c:/Poser 9/Runtime

And you drag it into

c:/Poser 9

it should merge. If you did not get a Windows warning something about "there already is a runtime folder" and ask you if you want to merge, then you didn't do that - you did something else - something you're not telling us.

If the zip file doesn't contain, at the top,

Runtime

Then it probably contains:

NameOfProduct/Runtime

In which case you should drill down one level first.

If you just dragged "NameOfProduct" into a Poser runtime, you did not merge its structure, but instead you created a new substructure, which Poser is absolutely not going to pay any attention to.

When you add a library to Poser, it has to have a name, such as Foo. In that there has to be a subfolder called Runtime. Further under Runtime you usually have Geometries, Libraries, and Textures. If you don't have Libraries at that point, then you're not going to see anything in Poser from that folder.

For example, in the category of props, they should be in:

NameOfLibrary/Runtime/Libraries/Props

Anything else and they will not show up.

Again, as I said earlier, Poser will show you the exact location of library elements that are being displayed properly. If you expect to add to those places, pay attention to those places. Go into Explorer and verify that the things you expect to see are where they are supposed to be.

You haven't told us a single actual path, so all this is guesswork. I can assure you that things are not where they need to be. I can also say that you've not said anything to indicate you know where those places are.

This isn't about me doubting you, it's about me knowing that the software shows things from specific folders, and it tells you those specific folders. Until you specify an example of a specific file in a specific folder that is demonstrated via Explorer and the info from the Poser Library window that you've got the file in the right folder, I have to assume it's not in the right folder.

I can't get any more specific since listing all the wrong folders on your computer is not something I can do from here.

Adding a library is different than merging a library.

When you unzip, pay attention to which you are doing. Are you starting a new library or merging to an existing one? If starting a new one, you have to add the library folder (the folder that has a unique name and contains a Runtime folder) to Poser as an external library.