Firstly, given the thread title, thanks for taking a look!

Also, thanks to Bondware, Hivewire, Developers, Beta Testers, helpful Forum members and anyone else bringing a fresh start to Poser.

My problem: I downloaded the Poser install file called Install%20Poser%2011 but when I double-click on it to start the installation it wants me to find an application to run this file with. I'm on Windows 8.5 and have an existing copy of Poser 11 pro from SmithMicro.

I started a new thread because I've seen no-one else with this problem and didn't want to muddle other threads.

Any help would be most welcome.

There have been threads about this, see one started by Nostrella I believe.

The problem they had was that somehow the file extension had been removed from the file. The file name should be Install poser 11.exe. Try renaming your file to this, or perhaps it was corrupted in downloading so try downloading again.

Wow. I went off to make a quick snack for a family member and came back to a reply. Thanks so much. I suspected that it should be an exe file but couldn't imagine it changing it's name during the download.

I'll take a look at the thread you mentioned and will try to fix it. Thanks again.

I didn't manage to find the thread referred to (I could have looked harder) but went ahead and renamed the file and it seems to have worked.

For info, I opened a DOS command window and used the REN (RENAME) command:

REN filename filename.exe

I seem to recall from way back that right-clicking and choosing rename from the pop-up menu in Windows may not rename the filename suffix if there is one. (in this case I needed a suffix of .exe).

Grimhilda posted at 3:11PM Sun, 22 September 2019 - #4363381

I didn't manage to find the thread referred to (I could have looked harder) but went ahead and renamed the file and it seems to have worked.

For info, I opened a DOS command window and used the REN (RENAME) command:

REN filename filename.exe

I seem to recall from way back that right-clicking and choosing rename from the pop-up menu in Windows may not rename the filename suffix if there is one. (in this case I needed a suffix of .exe).

If you enable Windows showing you file extensions for all your files, you can directly rename the extensions :)

Ditto with Ohki. Seems that the downloads are failing to complete the files with the format extension. As reported in that prior post, the install went smoothly after the renaming.

I had to go out and now see more contributions. Thanks, Ohki, I didn't want to go searching for a way to do that when I thought I'd get it done in DOS. Sometimes it's nice to look directly at file attributes and so on - even though in my case I often only half-know what I'm doing!

Yes, hborre, I too now have the new version of Poser working but need to complete all the content downloads next.

Thanks and regards to all.

Não consigo mais abrir o Pose. Já estava atualizado e funcionando 11.2 I can't open Pose anymore. It was already up and running 11.2 Aparece a seguinte mensagem: UNABLE TO CONTACT LICENSE SERVER

I think that's Portuguese. Not Spanish. Hmm, I think I've seen that last part somewhere in the forum as well.

You are not at the Smith Micro server, correct?