moogal posted at 5:38AM Mon, 21 October 2019 - #4367671

So today I ran into the perfect of example of the types of things I cannot believe no one has fixed yet. Multiple companies have owned this program and have been unable to fix the simplest of things.. I have my scene open for a few days now, since being notified there was a newer version and needing a few days to get it downloaded and installed. But so far, so good right? I go to save my scene. It's already in the library but I'll be damned if I know a way to just re-save it like in every other single program I have ever used. No, Poser requires typing in the name doesn't it? There's no way around that is there? So I click the "add to library" button and I type my name in the stupid requestor that really in 2019 should auto-complete the name by matching it to files in the library, or provide a drop-down list of previously saved files. Now I have two of the same file in my library because when I updated Poser it defaulted to no file compression. Once again I have the same scene with the same name but with two different extensions. So I go into preferences and turn on file compression. I go back to the library and save my scene again, type the name again, and overwrite the older .pzz (while leaving the newly saved .pz3 in place). At this point I cannot tell from the library which scene icon is the .pzz and which is the .pz3. I assumed that "pz3" would be above "pzz" so I delete one. Of course that means Poser also deletes the thumbnail for the scene I wanted to keep. So now I have to save it a third time. Or something like that. I gave up and took a break. I had to type the name of a file three times to overwrite an existing item in the library. And it looks like I still have both a .pz3 and .pzz version of it saved. Now I'll have to go into explorer and delete one manually. (I know the sequence of events above seems fishy somewhere. I'm not sure for example how I had two versions of the scene with different thumbnails at one point but now have two different versions with the same thumbnails. At first I thought there was only one thumbnail for both but clearly each has its own. Still wondering how deleting one file caused the other file's thumb to disappear.) And stuff like this happens every time I use the program.

Sometimes fixing the simplest of things tends to break others which is why you get a lot of "it was working before the update" complaints. And Poser does use a lot of third party features which they don't have the authority to change, so that much I do understand. Personally, I'd prefer they drop that in favor of using open source solutions, but I also understand that there are contract considerations to consider. I remember Microsoft once had a contract like that where they got paid even if another operating system was used.