grichter opened this issue on Nov 05, 2021 ยท 6 posts
an0malaus posted Sat, 06 November 2021 at 5:55 AM
Yup! You got it. the crash prevented Poser from deleting its single-instance lock file, so it finds that whenever you try to start it up again and stops loading.
Poser 12 will not exhibit this problem, since it actually checks the lock file, which contains the process number of the running Poser instance, and ignores it (deletes and replaces it) if it doesn't match an actual running process. Poser 11 hasn't had that fix added, so you'll have to remove the lock file by hand.
The file lives in ~/Library/Group Containers/F6C5GMLRY9.poser/Poser/11 and will be called "Poser-11" (or Poser/12/Poser-12 in the case of Poser 12 for builds after 12.0.203) Where "F6C5GMLRY9.poser" is a global identifier of a software vendor registered with Apple, so it should be identical on all macOS systems later than macOS Sierra, IIRC.
If you can't see the Library folder in your home directory, use the Finder>Go menu and type in Library, or search for "macOS show hidden folders".
Hope this helps :-)
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