Hiya, Poser gurus. I'm definitely NOT a guru, but I've been running Poser 5 and Poser 7 from an external hard drive for years. Recently, I decided it was time to migrate all my stuff over to a new hard drive, and ran into a really weird problem... I installed Poser 7 on the new external drive, but it doesn't work! Any time I try to open up a library, I get the error message: "THE LIBRARIES FOLDER CANNOT BE FOUND OR CREATED." It also says it doesn't like my face (not really, but I know it's thinking it).

I'm pretty sure I know what the problem is; I just don't know how to fix it. Poser on my new drive (F) is trying to reference libraries on my old drive (E). Does anybody know how to get it to stop doing that? And for that matter, is there a way to install Poser on your main (C) hard drive, but access runtimes from external drives. That'd be sweet. (but I'm guessing you can't)

Copy, don't move, your library to the new drive.

On the library tab in Poser, click 'Add Library' then add the library from the new drive. Then just use that as your main library.

This should also work for installing on the C drive and accessing the library from the external as long as you don't do something and change the drive designation.

One more thing. I am assuming you installed Poser 7 from the .exe (disc or download). Did you click the preference to install the library in other than the program file folder?

Thanks for responding, rokket!

I installed it in F:Program Filese Frontier

Basically, just changed the C: to F: and left the rest alone.

Sooo... if I'm understanding this right (and I'm probably not), what you're recommending is, instead of installing it with the disc (which is what I did), I shoud just copy-paste my existing Poser 7 files from the E: drive to the F: drive?

Quote - Sooo... if I'm understanding this right (and I'm probably not), what you're recommending is, instead of installing it with the disc (which is what I did), I shoud just copy-paste my existing Poser 7 files from the E: drive to the F: drive?

No, no, no!

Install Poser from the disc, but copy your LIBRARY from the old external to the new one...

Then go into Poser and add the 'new' library by clicking on it in the library tab.

Oh, okay. Gotcha!

I uninstalled Poser and disconnected the drive in frustration, but I'll give it another go later when I calm down!

Here's a screenshot of what I'm getting. All of the Libraries are completely blank, and whenever I click on them, I get that obnoxious error message.

Okay, I popped over to SmithMicro and found the solution in their ProductAnswers section. Apparently, even though I switched external drives, Poser keeps its preferences files locked away deep within the dark recesses of my Local Disk. So I had to close out Poser, go into C->UserName->AppData->Roaming->Poser 7, and then remove the preference files:

Poser.ini

LibraryPrefs.xml

UIPrefs_1600x900.xml

After that, I can happily report that Poser 7 is now working on my external drive... as well as can be expected!

Ooh, forgot to include the url for the SmithMicro page, in case anyone else has this problem:

link (because the url is so dang long)

I'm glad you found the answer you needed...