Is there a utility or script to locate the file calls of a pz3 and rewrite the new location of those files into the pz3??

After upgrading and upgrading and upgrading since Poser 2 and now on about the fifth computer many of my original file locations have changed so that when I load an older pz3 I have to spend unreasonable time RElocating objs and textures.

ANy shortcut utilities?

I don't have an answer to your question, but Poser shouldn't require you to locate textures. Just set preferences to do deep searches and it will find textures wherever they are, as long as just their locations have changed and not their file names.

Unfortunately, Poser's programmers did not extend that functionality to OBJ files. Geometries must be exactly where the scene or figure files expect them to be.

Correct Reference can find the files and update the path references in Poser but I don't think it can do anything for pz3s.

There's a free version in Freestuff and a Pro version in the Marketplace.

 Yeah, I tried Correct reference. You load the pz3 and then it pops up requestors to locate the various objs.

 Well, I can do that in poser.

These are computers for pete's sake: Couldnt an automatic search and replace be programmed as well as a requestor?

Well there's a really FAST Windows Search program I use called "Everything" that beats the pants off Window's built in search function. Click the word and it'll take you to the download page. It at least makes finding the misplaced files much quicker.

I use the Windows Search (Windows 7) all the time for this kind of thing. There is one thing I did: I modified the index locations to include the poser runtime and made sure that all the poser files (including obj and obj) are indexed.

If I now get a locate search box, I copy/paste the filename (which is in the botton) to the search box in the Open dialog. Press search and within 1 -2 seconds I have all the files with that name listed. I select the right one (based upon its folder location) in the search result and it loads the file. From that point on, Poser has added that folder to its own search locations and does not ask for other files in that folder.

I have set Poser to Shallow Search in General Preferences. If you have a (very) large runtime you need to do this otherwise it will take ages to come up with the Search dialog.

This works pretty well - even in networked drives.

It is not the exact thing you want - a search and replace tool - but ithis works at the time you need it.

I have not opinion on how much better other search engines are since I think 1-2 seconds is pretty acceptable and haven't tried others.

Just in case you might wonder if the search is fast with large runtimes - my main runtime (which is indexed) is 634GB with 2 million files in it

Setting search to shallow so the find dialog box pops up quicker is a fantastic tip.