Steve, over last night, I have done a complete scan disk and a defrag. My anti-virus program is updated every day and my computer scanned with it every day also. And I turn off my computer correctly (as much as I can, except when Vue or something else freezes it and I have to use the reset button on the machine). I just had tried, after rebooting, to install the Beta 05.2 update again. Same results with the plants (all black, cannot read *.prv.) But now I can call import object and load object from file without problem. (A new outfit ?) I also have tried to import a Poser figure with hair and lots of bum files. Beta 05/2 accepted them without problem. Happy I could make work again Vue 4.03, because I had a backup of all the original root files and have put them back. But the plants in beta 05.2 ??? I have tried to put my original plant folder in the beta 05.2 directory, this did not change any thing. Thanks, Guitta