Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Favorites: Poser 14 to Pose 11

jrmcdeath opened this issue on Jan 28, 2020 ยท 12 posts


pikesPit posted Wed, 29 January 2020 at 8:58 PM

your "Favourites" are always saved in the native Poser runtime. This is the place where your main Poser.exe is installed, e.g.: "D:Programs:SmithMicro:Poser1:1Runtime:Libraries:Collections" -->> OR! "D:Programs:SmithMicro:Poser11:Poser11 Content:Runtime:Libraries:Collections"

So what you MUST do is search for your old favourites, and copy them to the new Collections folder.

Three(!) problems though:

1: Your "Favourites" aren't actual poser files! They're just shortcuts to the file, created and read by your operating system and accompanied by gthe original thumbnail of your source file. To add more confusion, there are differences between Windows and MAC shortcuts, so they can't be interchanged.

2: ALL your "Favourites" (remember: they're just shortcuts!) are saved with an ABSOLUTE path(that's done per your OS and can't be modified). So if you modify your system setup and change drive letters (e.g., name former drive "D:" as drive "E:" = your shortcuts will probably become unavailable!

Solution: NONE. You eithermust rebuild your "Favourites" from scratch, or edit the path of every shortcut manually, using your OS "properties" option.

3: as long as you don't bind the library where your "Favourites" are stored, they won't be recognized by Poser anyway, thus your "Favourites" list will remain empty!

I hope this will help you, in one way or another?

Peter

**n.b.:

THIS ABSOLUTE CHAOS of runtimes that come with Poser MUST be eliminated ASAP!

Why have two different runtimes (three!! if you add the "Downloads" folder)?

Make it ALL ONE (1), (repeat: ONE!) runtime, and all the confusion about files not found is GONE.**

**n.b.2: Did anybody ever notice that text formating of this forum is FUBAR?????????????????