I have been installing some of my older Daz Poser content into Poser 11 Pro the last couple days. I have to drop the Runtimes in the Poser 11 folder because apparently it use to just be called content. I can find it fine in Poser BUT there are no preview thumbnails. So for example if I have 5 make up sets and 10 separate lip mats I see no preview. Just the poser figure with their hands up. So I then have to click on them till I find the one I want. Is there a way to fix this? Oh and BTW/ Putting these files in Poser was far easier than in DS. I let install Manager do it there and couldn't find anything. It put it here, there, and someplace else. And tried doing it manually but couldn't make that work either. Thank you!

DIM strips all the subfolders from the Content folder and places them where they belong. DIM also creates a new default DAZ content folder called My DAZ 3D Library; that folder must be linked manually to DS otherwise you will not find any of your installed content. You can also use DIM to install Poser content, a feature that many Poser users are not aware of or don't know how to use. If I download anything from DAZ that is my preference, I have no problems with it.

Depending how old the content is and whether it has been updated, it may contain rsr formatted files whose proper thumbnails will not show up. To verify this, you will need to open explorer and check what you have in that folder. The other issue is that those files might be DAZ formatted files that typically inhabit the runtime folder.

Go to the folder where the poses are stored, which sounds like Poser 11 Content/Runtime/Libraries/Pose/Name of Product and see if the the pz2 files are accompanied by a like named png. If not they're lost somewhere. Do a search and locate them and place them with their like named pz2 files. So if you have a Red Glitter Lipstick.pz2 you should also have a Red Glitter Lipstick.png floating around somewhere. That should get rid of the Shruggy Guy. You should unzip your Daz products and remove the Runtime folder from the content folder before merging into the destination Runtime. It's probably best to just manually install the daz zips into Poser and double check after merging particular things in my opinion, then you'll know that there aren't any mix ups.

Sorry hborre crosspost. And yes those pesky old rsr files...

I would seriously doubt that the icons would separate from their linked counterparts that easy considering that they are nested within the same folder. If you have the Extended Details Panel open below the Library hierarchy folders, that panel will tell you where it's located and what type of file it is associated with. You can also hoover your mouse cursor over the icon and it will see you the same information.

Where you mentioned that this was older content, I'm betting that the missing thumbnail problem is because they are rsr format as hborre suggested. Right-click on any item or folder in your library and it will give you the option to open it in explorer (or Mac's equivalent) and you can check to see if it contains rsr files. If it does, you can use Rsr to png converter to convert them to pngs. If poser is open when you run it, you will need to refresh your library. There are two circling arrows in the very bottom right corner of the library that will refresh the whole thing.

As you install, if you find content with both rsr and png thumbnails, you can delete the rsr ones. Poser 11 can't use them. They only take up space.

Must be rsr then. I just double check after I put the files in. Being that I do everything manually I don't encounter these things, or require automations or bells and whistles. Probably because I'm a former mac user. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Thanks ya'll.. I got it! The rsr converter did the trick! They are all showing up now. OH, And I will never use DIM for anything Poser related. I am seriously thinking about not using it for anything. I hate DS anyway. I may have to use it for some things tho. I have a friend who uses it all the time and she installs EVERYTHING manually because she hates DIM.

Manually installing things in DS is the best way to go about it, unless you can remember which vendor actually made the product, and where they actually put it.

If you get a lot of content, I would recommend breaking things down into separate runtimes & only load the ones you need.  I found out the hard way on this.