Thank you. I will try now

I have given up again trying to install daz figures into Poser. I did it again recently and Poser stopped working . I followed instructions from various people in this forum, but each time the terminology used was loose and not exactly what i encountered when doing the install, and so I had to improvise and screwed it all up. I had to delete Poser and start again. Now, I have various Poser and Daz files all over my computer now.

I just uninstalled and re-installed Poser 14 Pro. It is a night mare to me. If I did not love the output from Poser, I would pitch the whole thing. Don't expect much help from Smith Micro, they do answer help questions, but the answers are very terse. 

This is so cool. I can't even get Genesis to work in Poser 2014 Pro. So, this is good discussion for me.

So, if you look at my folders above, I have a Genesis Essential Poser CF folder on the same level as my Poser 2014 installation (I created this folder as my choice during the Poser installation). Should I move that entire Genesis folder into the Poser 2014 folder, or under the Poser 2014 Runtime folder? Or should I leave the actual folder alone and move all of its contents to the Poser 2014 Runtime folder? Poser 2014 was working fine until I tried to add Genesis, DSON, and the Install manager. If I keep the Genesis folder where it is, there is a Runtime folder in there, but it is further down in the hierarchy of folders.

I will start by deleting DSON from my computer.

Thx

I am pretty sure that I am using the 64 bit poser, I will double check when I get home. I think there are two versions of DSON and I installed it twice. The problem did not appear when I installed Poser, it came up when I added the genesis essential content, which is what made me think it was installed in the wrong place. At first, I looked for a runtime folder, and I actually found it in Poser, but there was no content inside the folder. Does Runtime have the to the highest folder in the folder tree in order to be seen by Poser, or can you pick a Content folder and Poser sees the Runtime folder inside?

I have killed Poser by trying to add a DAZ character and DSON and the poser installation manager. Now I get an error message when I ope Poser. I am not even sure what to take off.

Here is the error message, and next is my Poser tree. I have tried to keep everything there from all of my posers. The poser.exe is installed in Poser Pro 2014. Where should the Genesis Essential and Genesis Essential CF reside? One of the DSON files seemed to be for 32 and the other for 64 bit. What is the download manager for? Is it just for installing poser files or should I use it to install the DSON

What can I do to fix this?...Thanks

Thanks hborre, the info about where to install may help me. I can't use the default installation because I don't want it to install on my C drive, which is SSD. So, I have to pick where the installer should install everything. I have one Poser folder where everything lives. I have a Poser 2014 folder where the Poser exe files. All of my Poser 2014 content is in this same folder in their own folder, and it was working fine. Then, I install the DSON into the Poser 2014 folder. The Genesis Poser companion files are in the main Poser folder, and they seemed to partially work there. Then, I installed the Genesis Essential files, in the same overall Poser folder and that is when I started getting error messages about dll files when I start Poser. In addition, I installed a Poser file manager program, which is more insistent about where it wants to install things. I would like to contain everything in one Poser folder on my E drive. I bought M6, which was the motivation for my trying this, and I have not tried to install it yet.

What do you mean by my 'main Poser runtime'? The runtime that i see is a folder within my Poser 2014 folder. There always seems to be some content that is not contained in a Runtime folder.

I tried again, posted it somewhere else. I get error messages now every time I open Poser. Unless I can finally get this, I will just stop trying to use Poser.

i tried again today. It is not working. I installed DSON, and the two essential Genesis content folders. One of them I can find in Poser looking for content, but the essential says there are no files. To complicate everything, I have an SSD hard drive and do not want any of this located there, so I am trying to install everything to separate drive. I think i already have a mess. I have not installed M6 yet.

I have had versions of Poser on my computer for several years. I have given up several times but keep coming back to it and buying the latest version. I still don't get it though but keep telling myself that I will find the time to get it right. I say the same about Blender and Photoshop. Congrats on not giving up and learning this.

Thank you. Should I have known that? I did not see that information anywhere, I don't think I could have discovered this withoug your help. Thanks.

I will follow this thread until I am brave enough to try Genesis once again in Poser. The Genesis figures are more attractive, but I like the Poser software better.

Thanks for the info. I was able to update my 2014

I am going to follow this conversation. I wish Daz to Poser was easier. Poser files are just a nightmare.