Many Thanks for an excellent tutorial series. I've tried the hair room a couple of times after watching various tutorials from the likes of cripeman, Phil Wilks, etc. Those videos gave me the basic operating procedures but didn't really explain the settings in any depth. I found myself just plugging settings everywhere hoping for some ureka moment (or maybe dumb luck) to get something reasonable, Of course, I totally failed in a very consistent way!

Finally, your complete workflow and simple explanation of the interaction between settings gives a clarity to the Hair room, you have removed the whole mystique for me. I really do hope to see a little more on complex styling if you can find the time. Thanks once again

Don't worry about the message - fix is the same :-)  As I say, I've not yet met any poses where this hasn't worked. The address has to 100% accurate though, I've had cases where I kept making stupid typo's or get the path slightly wrong and it took me two or three attempts to spot what's wrong. But Hey! It's Carrara, you expect it to work off the bat? LOL

Re Poses not working in Carrara (or anything): I've already posted a something  in Daz Carara forums (Bratpiper there) re this under some heading about not using the DAZ installers. Basically I install EVERYTHING MANUALLY since I've a mish-mash of DS/Poser/Carrara tangled up., plus I reorganise everything so I can find it under sensible structures,

Anyhow the basis of your problem of files not working (usually get a message like "can't find the file", even though it definitely is there!) is in the duf file itself . Open the duf in a text editor (Notepad++ is great because you can batch edit whole groups of files in one go)  and look very near the top of the file for the files' address line. That address MUST be the same as the file itself. Note that for many files you purchase from DAZ this just is not true! I can only assume that Studio does not use this line - but Carara definately does. Edit that line and resave the duf file and it will work - I've had 100% success rate.

Note the duf's might be compessed, just  unzip with winzip or similar.

Hope this helps

Oops! meant 2TB HDD of course.

Agree with hornet re- imaging your c: drive. This is a thing I've always done, even before using SSD's.

Best program to do this, that I've found so far, is called Macrium Reflect. The free version is all a home user needs. It's very simple to use, extremely fast, and makes efficient compressed images. I've restored images with it, and it worked flawlessly.

I have had a 120GB OCZ Agility 3 running Windows 8 for 6 months now. Have run Poser Pro 2012 and 2014 with no problems also. Although, as I have read reports that if SSD's fail it is generally catastrophically, I play safe in having only the main program on the SSD and put all my runtimes on a 2GB Seagate HDD. Easy to backup the SSD onto HHD just in case!

I also run Windows 7 on a 60GB OCZ Petrol SSD (cheaper / lower quality) with no problems. I have an 2.25" caddy in my PC and can change operating systems by simply swapping the SSD's. In my experience there is no reason that Poser, nor any other program, should run any differently on an SSD than on a standard HDD.As you note though, there is not a massive speed increase due to SDD that I noticed, just a little, plus faster starting, plus solid stability.

Other thoughts...

1. Have you checked with OCZ if the SSD firmware is up to date? early firmwares were dodgy I believe.

2. I also have my windows swap and temp files on the HDD as well, to keep junk to a minimum on the SSD. 60GB does not seem a lot of room if especially if you have your runtime on the SSD?  I can't ever remember Poser crashing on me, it's extremely stable. I also have an intel i7 CPU with 16GB of Ram and an ASUS (ATI) EAH6850 GPU

I have had one issue only, to do with shared data when swapping operating systems... A warning here (sorry to digress but it is worth noting this for anyone considering doing it)...  Do not try to share the same hard drive for data between Win 7/XP and Win 8... IT WILL CORRUPT DATA without warning! and it will not be recoverable!  It took me a week or so sorting this one out. I believe this is caused by the newer Windows 8 self healing file system as other web sites have noticed this also, but apparently MS denies this. If you do ever need to do this, give each operating system a separate HDD and hide the opposing one to each system in the windows disk manager. I have had no problems since doing this. It is a pain if you need to share data between the two though!

Thanks for the thoughtful after service. The Ana update and the email, without which I wouldn't have known there was an update (rarely have time to trawl here!). Also, although I already have Tyler (free) via SM, thanks for that too. Nice gesture.