hornet3d posted at 2:31 PM Thu, 13 April 2023 - #4462068
Thank you so much you are a savior, it took me two attempts as I missed one line on the first go but it worked second time.  I guess you cannot put the Poser 13 content on a different drive in the setup and also check the use existing preferences.  Whatever I did with the drive the install program created a Poser 13 content in the usual place on the C drive but then did not populate it.

Anyway, thanks to you and after about seven reinstalls I am back working,  I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your help.

Yeah, even when you put your content on another drive, installation still creates a bare bones runtime on your C: drive.  And as you both pointed out, if you re-use your old preferences file, it still looks in all the old familiar places for your content, then gets very depressed when it can't find it.  I always had a small C: drive, so I've been putting my content on another, larger drive ever since Poser started letting us do it.  Because of that, I've never had a chance to make that particular mistake with the preferences, but believe me, I would have done the same thing if I'd had to move stuff and re-install. After all, my preferences are set up the way I want them . . . why do it all over again?  Well, now we know why we should consider doing it all over again, at least after rearranging locations. As I said, it would never have occurred to me not to.