sometimes I find I am missing a texture and poser then freezes up for like 10 minutes while it conducts a search then finally when my blood starts to boil that the program waisted 10 minutes of my time it finally gives me the damn pop up screen asking me to go find it, why can't they just design the program to quckly ask you if you want to look or skip it?

that would be too easy....

Try setting search depth to shallow, that will limit where it looks for the texture

Bill

Go to Edit/General Preferences

In the Library tab under File Search you will see three boxes.  Click the Shallow, then it will not search all the runtime/texture folders.

No one likes the delays when a texture is missing. Never had a lengthy 10 minute wait. For me it's about a minute or less wait for the window to open for starting a search. -TOM-

What I don't understand is why it has to search for textures that it found the week before with no problem. Maybe my Poser has Alzheimer's.

Yeah, mine is set to deep and it takes about 30 seconds to say it can't find it.

Laurie

With deep it scans all the texture folders in all your runtimes. That might take a while when you have a large (set of) runtime(s).

Search first tries to be intelligent and queries first the current folder, the root textures and some other locations. Then it parses the pathname and tries various mutation. Then it starts the full search. If it locates a texture, it then adds that folder to the set of locations to search in before it does the full search - finding the other textures with the same incorrect reference in that folder.

Settting it to shallow eliminates the full search. Setting it to narrow does not do any seach at all.