Can't delete mistakes.  Install in the wrong place or empty and can't delete.

Can't even get files grouped so that they make some sense.  4 days and my hair is

turning gray.  I think I need step by step help.

If I want to delete files from my library, I just delete them from my runtime, using Windows Explorer.

We decided that offering a way for people to delete files was pretty dangerous. The number of users complaining and accusing Poser of doing things that were actually done by themselves is rather high. So, Poser is incapable of deleting, therefore cannot be accused of doing it incorrectly.

As to grouping files, what do you mean? You have near total freedom to organize how you like. You can move things around in Poser with drag and drop, or use your file manager.

For any serious reorganization of your runtimes just use Windows Explorer or whatever the file manager of your OS is.

@BB ..You have near total freedom to organize how you like.

As usual I might be doing things the wrong way around, but

• Library - Figures only shows cr2/crz files in the Characters folder, and subfolders thereof.
• and so on for hr2/hrz in Hair, and you name it
• and in Favorites I only can make shortcuts to items, not to folders of items.

This makes building one "closed set" of dress, other clothing items, shoes, jewelry, purse, and a shipload of sets of materials still some nightmare. To me that is.

So I stick to P3dO for the time being, despite all efforts of BB into this Library (and the serious improvements he really made). But I like to be educated...

aRtbee, I thought the way stuff showed up in poser library changed a couple versions ago. I didn't have time to verify right now, but will later.

@GeneralNutt (and BB): yep, tested again. Don't know what went wrong last time, but now:

• Library - Characters gives me the Characters folder
• and does show all sorts of items in it. GOOD.

But...

• when in Characters, I only can add Character items to the Favorites. I can add Hands to favorites when I'm in Hands, even if I can see etc all the other types of items. Confusing.
• and I only can add items to favorites. So when I've got a dress with 20 mats in one folder, I've to add them separately instead of providing a link to the mats folder. Cumbersome, not very attractive.

Same behavior in PPro2012 as in PPro2010.

Right. With P8 anyway, the Library system still has certain limitations that appear to have lingered from older versions. You are also limited to saving poses only to the Pose library, materials to the Material library, etc. So if you have an outfit that's in the Characters library and you've placed all if its materials in a subdirectory under the outfit called Mats for example, you can't save a material in the Mats subdirectory; you have to save it somewhere in the Materials library. After that you can move it anywhere you want with Explorer, but you have to save it to wherever Poser expects it to be saved.

I still cant find my poses in runtime.  They can be accessed via Poser, but not Explorer.  I do a search for the filename and nothing comes up.  Any ideas?

Quote - I still cant find my poses in runtime.  They can be accessed via Poser, but not Explorer.  I do a search for the filename and nothing comes up.  Any ideas?

Where are you looking?  Poser puts things in 2 places now.  The core app goes in one place & the content goes in a seperate folder.

What path is the library showing? What path are you looking in? (See chapter 7 for library display options)

Quote - We decided that offering a way for people to delete files was pretty dangerous. The number of users complaining and accusing Poser of doing things that were actually done by themselves is rather high. So, Poser is incapable of deleting, therefore cannot be accused of doing it incorrectly....

However, it will happily overwrite compressed files without prompting if file compression is disabled, and vice versa.  I filed a bug report and was told that mixing compressed and uncompressed files was not supported, and it was thus not a bug... :rolleyes:

I didn't write that part. grin

Quote - I didn't write that part. grin

I figured that you didn't. 

They probably would need to rewrite the gzip library to fix it...

I checked the path from Poser, and went to it in Explorer, and none of the file folders or poses I have created are there.  scratches head  Could they be hidden or something?

What paths? I do not have time to ask all the questions. Since you did not give me data, I will tell you to look up UAC and virtual store.

There should be a folder listed in Explorer called 'iMove Studios' that should have the content I created and it is missing. I am in Windows 7.

OK it is as I suspected. UAC is active and you attempted to install content into program files.

The Poser installer very strongly suggested you not put your main runtime into Program Files. Yet you did. Now you know why it was strongly suggested not to do that.

Windows will not let 3rd party installers shove files into Program Files unless you jump through some hoops.

You have two choices. Start over and you will never have to think about UAC and the Virtual Store.

Or - start learning what you did, what Microsoft did, what Daz did, and how those three things are in violent disagreement.

The best solution is to install your main content in your documents folder, not your program files folder.

Further, 3rd party content really should not be jammed into your main runtime at all.  You will eventually be sad after you have upgraded Poser several times, and you are still carrying around your current main runtime, even though it will have been superceded by newer better ones in the future.

You'll be forced to keep it around because you jammed a bunch of stuff you did not get from SM into the place where you keep (and eventually throw away) what SM gave you.

Thank you for the help :)  Glad I haven't been using it long!

Another to-do for SM, I guess.

Copying paths from the detail panel works for me all the time - odd.

I can't drag hightlight select it, in pp2012 win 64, but I can rightclick select all and copy, though I can't imagine ever doing it.

Now if it listed where the obj and materials were that would be handy. I know p3d0 does it.

I like the way Poser 2012 handles libraries. I stay away from the Library that Poser installs as part of the main program. Everything that I add to the library I put in a separate folder that contains the runtimes. Easy way to keep things sorted out.