.cr2 files can be edited in Word and Notepad but .crz files show up with crazy symbols.

How can .crz files be edited?  Do you need a special program?
Pappy

A .crz file is the compressed format for a .cr2 file. In order to open the file in Notepad you need to uncompress it.  Apparently gzip can uncompress it.

I just use the Python script menu under "Utilities" and compress and uncompress inside Poser.  If you have Poser 6 or 7, you don't have to uncompress the whole runtime. You can just browse to the one folder that has the file in it that you want to compress or uncompress. Unfortunately you can't do single files inside Poser.

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winzip will unzip the crz files

Thank you!

One thing to watch out for:  When you uncompress the older CRZ files
that came with Poser 5, like those awful cartoon figures, you'll find the
actual CR2 still has a CRZ extension.  This doesn't mean it needs to be
unzipped again.  It's just an error in the way these old files were built.
After the extraction, rename the resulting file to CR2.

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@ ockham

That's a  VERY useful tidbit of info there ockham ... Thanks for posting it here.
It may just help keep someone out of trouble. :biggrin:

cheers,
dr geep
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edited 10/5/2019