Hmm. I took a look at the relevant functions, including a peek inside Poser itself, and didn't see any hard-wired references to C: or to a CuriousLabs or MetaCreations directory. My own Poser directory is in a non-standard place, and I've used AppLocation successfully. One possibility: I've seen "attribute error" in file-related Python functions when I tried to use an empty string.... but that was in my own scripting which wasn't necessarily written right. You might see if you're leaving a blank unfilled?

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