Like most people when starting with Poser I use edit>General Preferences to get the startup I want, in my case - no figure and with different elements in certain locations in the screen.

On checking Prefs folder I discovered the attached item - ringed in the example and suspected that this maybe the cause of the Parse Error problem. I deleted the item with the P6 icon and everything is ok in that respect. The only thing is, I have to re-set up my favoured UI each time I open P6 which is something of a pain.

Any help would be welcomed. Would installing SR1 help?

Thanks

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After setting up your preferred state and saving it as your preferred state, is preferredState.pz3 being saved in your "prefs" folder? If not, I would try "save as" into that folder after insuring that compressed files are turned off. SR1 couldn't hurt.

Thanks will try that - never had this problem with P4PP/P5! However, the pic shows the contents of my prefs folder so I don't know what else I can do.

If you have file extensions switched off in windows you should switch them back on. Poser makes a pz3 called preferred state when you set your own preferences and that is probably the file that you deleted. (It will be a pzz if you have file compression on)

Hi Xantor - it is a pz3 file. I haven't deleted it this time, just set my preferred state, saved it to prefs folder with the name "1" as a sort of test. I don't have file compression on. I'll see if this will solve the problem. When I do get a parse error warning, if I click OK, I can carry on working - P6 doesn't shut down. I'd just like to have things running "normally" - wouldn't we all? ;-)

To save it to work as the preferred state it will have to have the name preferredstate.pz3 so that poser knows what it is.

ok thanks for that, Xantor