You know how Poser tends to lock up and you have to re-open, when I did, there was nothing in my pz3!! I always SAVE everytime I added on object to the scene, so I only had to go to my previous pz3 . I think from now on I'm going to make an additional pz3.You can always delete it, after the next step. to keep from wasting memeory.

Had something awhile ago.posercrash during saving.the pz3 was nomore to read.

I sometimes save a good pz3 file again and the next time I load it, discover it has 0 bytes and all work is lost, so better is I think to save it under a new name. Sometimes when Poser locks it saves the file under pzSav_sample.pz3 name.

I've had this happen when I have a crash and I try to save my work with ctrl-S to save. My document is ruined. Once I had it crash during a render and when I came back after reboot, that document went into permanent render mode. It would just sit and render over and over. I couldn't stop it. It always loaded with the render screen already running. So frustrating. I've found no way to fix this and ended up just recreating the whole scene from scratch. What a pain. Melanie

I have had a PZ3 go corrupt, and become unusable. I ended up manually editing the PZ3 in a text editor, to find around 400 lines of code missing. No idea where it went...floating around inside my 'puter, somewhere. ~EA

Oh God, yes. And for me, it always seems to be the most complicated scenes that get corrupted, too.

Because of this "function" of Poser, I have taken to creating a 'temp' folder in every library. I save each prop, pose, character, ect, including making MAT poses, before I save the PZ3. Than I just update the actual changes made and resave the libraries. I usually have about 3 copies of any given instance for each project I do. Paranoid?...nope. As the saying goes, "Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean that everybody isn't out to get me." ~EA

I've found that even saving to the library doesn't work. For example, I transfered my Village People models to a library folder and found that, for some strange reason, when I opened the Leatherman, the cap would show in draft mode but would not render. At all. It was like it had disappeared. Same thing happened with the headdress on the Indian. At first I thought it was maybe because these were imported .obj files, but the policeman and the construction worker both used a lot of imported obj's, and those came through fine. Weird, all of it.

I've never lost everything, but I've had them wrecked in other ways-- texture changed or burnt into the skin so it looks crappy and can't be removed. Morphs gone, all sorts of minor tragedies that basically mean do the darn scene again, if I can remember how. And this is when I had ordinary saves, not frozen ones. I had it happen on revert to save too. Now I just stick in there till the darn things done and render as big as I can. Just in case. This is on 98 and ME, haven't got my XP puter yet. Emily

About 13 years ago an Amiga ate a file I'd been working on for 4 days. I'd been saving every 10-15 minutes, but only under the one name. When you see DAYS of your work vanish, it is a good incentive to change habits. I rotate "saves" under 3 names. This goes for backups, too! A fair amount has been eaten or corrupted by various computers and software over the years, but this procedure has saved me much grieving. Carolly

If I make many changes, I name them "filename1, filename2, filename3," as I go. That way I never over-write something I might need later. I've been doing it this way for a couple decades. It hasn't failed me yet.

Heya, yeap this has happened to me too. Also the prob with saving stuff to the library and it being there but it will not render. I hear long names can be the cause of that one. Not sure what happens to the saved Pz3 file. So I save one file right after another. ver1, ver2, ver3, etc., until I am done. Then I wipe all the ones I don't need and back up the one I want to keep.

Melanie... I've had that permenant render mode also... but managed to sort it out. Can't remember how at the moment as I'm at work. Although I recall it had something to do with the document style buttons? If I remember at home later, Ill post it to another thread. Howard:)

Wow, I'd sure like to know how you got around that one. It was so frustrating. Melanie