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Subject: Just Came Back to Poser

shorterbus opened this issue on Mar 14, 2010 · 10 posts
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shorterbus ( ) posted Sun, 14 March 2010 at 9:39 PM · edited Fri, 13 December 2024 at 8:43 AM

I suffered several crashes, got discouraged and I''ve been away from Poser for almost 2 years. I've decided to give it another go, so I just purchased Poser 8. I was determined not to come running to this forum over every little thing, but here I am.
I bought a new computer with Vista. I am trying to load all my old purchases into the Poser 8, but pkzip no longer works (?) and some Vista adjunct wants to extract the files. I try to unzip them to my Poser 8 folder, but it wants to merge files, and then takes half an hour or more to extract. What gieves? 

ockham ( ) posted Sun, 14 March 2010 at 10:12 PM

One thing to watch for:  Vista treats anything inside "Program Files" as sort of
like system files, with special permission needed to write.

Poser behaves much better in Vista and Win 7 when it's outside of Program Files.   
For instance C:Poser 8.

I think PkZip is obsolete.  WinZip and 7Zip are more modern.

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hborre ( ) posted Sun, 14 March 2010 at 10:25 PM

PkZip!!!!!  Long gone and forgotten. 

Welcome back and good luck.  We will be seeing you more often then you think or desire.

markschum ( ) posted Sun, 14 March 2010 at 10:27 PM

welcome back. Try winzip or winrar, both have free versions. I turned off UAC on my vista laptop. Hasnt caused any problems and no runs almost like winxp
.

NoelCan ( ) posted Sun, 14 March 2010 at 10:40 PM

 Welcome back..  You will be frustrated to distraction like most of us.  I will not offer any advice yet..
I am using Mac..

Roy G ( ) posted Mon, 15 March 2010 at 12:21 AM

Welcome back. I'm finding a learning curve with Poser 8 as well. For me the big issue is lighting.

NanetteTredoux ( ) posted Mon, 15 March 2010 at 12:48 AM

And careful with the firewall. Whatever firewall you use has to allow Poser to do whatever it wants otherwise your library won't work.

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estherau ( ) posted Mon, 15 March 2010 at 2:50 AM

 I think there's a service release patch for poser 8 too.

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Lucifer_The_Dark ( ) posted Mon, 15 March 2010 at 2:56 AM

If you plan to switch off UAC make sure you've got some really good anti-virus software installed & scan everything executable before you use it. I know most people do that anyway but it's worth repeating as I forgot the other day & had to spend a couple of hours yesterday reinstalling Windows to get rid of a virus.

Oh yeah check out www.blackviper.com/ to get a smoother running Windows, just remember to play "safe". ;)

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shorterbus ( ) posted Mon, 15 March 2010 at 2:57 AM

Thanks guys!
I am quickly remembering the best thing about Poser is the community.

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