thank you, I accepted the suggested options. I don't remember where it gave me an option to put the content in a different location but if you say it did then I believe you. Once it told me this is where it wanted to put stuff, no I didn't bother to read the other options. if the program doesn't know itself where everything goes then I can't imagine how they think I should. I appreciate your advise, I suppose I will either reinstall it or just find something else that is not such a hassle

also I found some old obj and cr2 files on a disc. do you think I could still use those? They're probably ten years old. I guess I need to find a poser for dummies book or something

" Your default should point the content folder towards My Documents as the share point for Poser Content."

okay my brain is on over load right now and refuses to process this information. so I should cut the runtime folder from the Poser 9 directory and paste it into my documents?

C:Program Files (x86)Smith MicroPoser 9RuntimeLibrariesCharacterPeopleRyan

this is where the folder is with a file in it called P8Ryan_LR.obz and one called Ryan2_HR.obz but when I open Poser the Ryan folder in the library is empty. I haven't messed with this program in a very long time and I can't seem to remember even the most basic things. If I could figure out how to get a character in there maybe I could get started.

I don't remember having this much trouble with it. I had thought I would find some characters on line that would suit my purposes and open them in poser. but from the things I have read so far it's not that easy. I suppose I'll find a step by step start from the beginning tutorial to get going with but I just thought there should be some normal human characters in the library to begin with.

Weird things is there are heads and hands and skeletons just no people. Am I just missing a big piece of the picture or what?  

"C:Program Files (x86)Smith MicroPoser 9Poser.exe"

I just accepted the default location when it was installing. I don't have an older version of Poser. I do have Windows 7 though.

I used Poser a bit quite a few years ago and was able to do simple animations and scenes but I can't seem to get going with the Poser 9 trial I downloaded. right off the bat the library is empty and everything I read says all I should have to do is update my flash player. I have done that and all the suggested windows updates and I cannot figure out how to populate the library. there are characters included with the download right? if anybody can help me figure this out I would really appreciate it. I was counting on using Poser to do my capstone project because I thought I could catch back on  pretty quick but I'm getting a little worried about that decision.