no the issue is sorted now, was my fault :)

2.2 gamma looks better than 1.8 and is the default in 10.6 which i will be getting soon, my mac is rather new :)

Bit of a bump but i found the issue, it was me!! :blushing: - seems that I assumed copying over a folder would be the same as on windows (which it is obviously) but when it says replace folder it does just that deletes everything in the folder with the one you copy over, so i was wiping out things poser required and when it couldn't find them it had a head fit.

Now when i copy things by hand and to the separate folders all is fine :)

external drive - htpc machine - and laptop all have copies of the most important stuff - so i should be fine.

Thanks to all for the information, most helpful to a new mac user like myself

i have done that - googled the issue and that came up - would you advise doing that after i have installed my whole content (have just finished re-downloading a lot of it) - it seems to be ok atm mind you i ran the utility then reinstalled poser and the update.

snow leopard isn't out till September from what  i have read - only beta versions are floating about, as to my issue - i think it may be a corrupted preferences file, i will see after i have installed a few things

forgot to think to look there :)

cookies!!!! nom nom nom nom!!!!!!!

I understand it a little better now - thanks all

Thanks Frank - thats a nice city you live in ;) shame the two footballs teams suck :D

so baking is more for animation? if so i guess i wont need it as i do stills too

For example i have the sky deck from stonemason for vue, do i need to bake it - if so do i bake all of it - parts of it?

in general - what should you bake? when should you bake?

I will have a look at it in the morning, and remember to substitute poser for carrara, hopefully saving it as obj and not pz3 should work

Thanks a  lot - looks like some heavy reading, so i think a pot of coffee is in order first :)

Ah! I forgot about pz3 :) - didn't think i would be able to use carrara files though, i will have to give vue a work over and see what is what.

Thanks