Hi all, I'm moving to a new computer and want to install P5 on the C: drive and then copy over all my existing Poser work (.PZ3 files) to drive D:. I had created these PZ3 files on a computer where they were on the same drive as the Poser installation (C:). Will I have a problem opening/using these PZ3 files when they are on a different drive? Do they have internal references to a particular drive for things like geometries, textures, etc.? Since my Poser installation will be on C:, the PZ3 files on D: will have to find the required geometry files, etc. on C:. Thanks for the help! Right now I have a pretty standard installation of Poser 5: program and all my work (.PZ3 files) on the C: drive.

I moved my PZ3 files to a new drive in my PC and they work fine. I now save all PZ3s on the new drive coz my C drive was getting near breaking point! I also put some new textures on the new one with no problems.

In theory, a PZ3 file should open jsut fine from wherever it is, as it references either the poser Runtime or full paths... However, there are minor exceptions when loading a PZ3 where it will try to search it's own folder's structure rather than Poser's, but that only occurs (to my knowledge) when someone consciously hacks the pz3/cr2 file.

As long as your geometry and textures are in the same place as they were when you last saved that pz3, you're okay. You move one texture and poser will sulk. sighs

Not entirely true, Lyrra.. when the cr2 is modified so that a bodypart is called from an additional external object rather than being part of the figure Resource file, Poser often gets confused when opening the pz3 and searches for the object in the pz3's subdirectories rather than it being relative to Poser's runtime, regardless of whether or not that object file is in the right place. This of course doesn't affect most users though, so it's a minor thing to worry about unless you're into creative cr2 hacking.

Thanks for the answers. I was hoping to install P5 into just C:poser instead of the convoluted c:program filescurious labsposer but as Lyrra points out that may cause havoc with my old PZ3 files as far as finding geometries and textures. Maybe I'll try it anyway.

Actually, they won't necessarily... unless a file is located outside of the Poser directory when you save the scene, Poser stores all the paths relative to your poser directory. So, as long as those files still exist within your poser directory you should have little to no trouble.