I was wondering if anyone has had this situation. I loaded a series of poses back in July of last year. I've used them between then and now. But today I go to use them and they are not in my runtime, anywhere. I locate the poses in my saved files and when I extract the files again, they load as if they were not in Poser but the Readme files were still in Poser back from July. 

I have noticed this with clothing items, and props as well. I had 5 folders that had a series of poses in each folder and each folder started with the authors name, all of those poses were loaded in July and all of them missing out of the Runtime but the Readmes show proof that they were loaded at some point. 

Is this a sign that my hard drive is getting ready to go belly up? Or just one of Poser flukes? Seems kind of fishy to me, stuff disappearing like that. 

I've never had this, but I do have one particular item that if unpacked in one runtime works fine. If unpacked in another, it does not show up.

My gut level advice is for you to run a test on your hard drive, and back that sucker up as soon as you can.

If anyone has had your exact problem, I'm sure they will post. Keep checking back.

Never had this problem myself but like basicwiz I have one 2 or two items that did not work if i moved them to another runtime.

Thanks for posting. It is certainly a strange event. It is probably time for my rebuild on my system and a serious culling of Runtime items. :)

Sounds odd for a HD issue but not impossible. In addition to running an error check, I’d look at the event log for any disk or file system related errors. Generally in the case of a disk problem I’d expect symptoms like noise, Windows throwing errors as it tried to read a bad sector or taking a long time to read a file due to retries. Could be some corruption if the Master File Table I suppose – if so chkdsk will hopefully sort it out. If you reinstalled them and the stay put might be the faeries ÷)

The first thing I'd do here is do an operating system search for one of the file names (e.g. using the Windows Explorer search or Finder, on OS X).

That may reveal what's happened to your missing files.

The first thing I'd suspect is that I had accidentally dragged the files and / or folder inside another folder...

...but that may just be me. LOL ;-)

Quote - The first thing I'd do here is do an operating system search for one of the file names (e.g. using the Windows Explorer search or Finder, on OS X).

That may reveal what's happened to your missing files.

The first thing I'd suspect is that I had accidentally dragged the files and / or folder inside another folder...

...but that may just be me. LOL ;-)

Good point I used the search method when I placed a runtime folder within a runtime folder , I soon fixed it though after the search.

Good points made, thank you all for the suggestions, I'm working on it now, I have a 500g [not big by todays HDs] 3 year old HD and scan disk will take FORever to go through it...So will have to pick a weekend and let it go. Probably it will take a long time is because I haven't run scan disk on it...so I've been bad I guess... :(

I am always "housecleaning" and putting files into 'proper' file locations for easy use/find in Poser but these files, they can't be found but the readmes were still in place so I know I am not going crazy ;) Thanks again.