My thumbs in Poser 8, and 10 are not showing up.  I have tried updating Adobe Air, Flash, resaved the thumbs as new png's in P3DO, and nothing seems to make em show up.  Now this is only happening with some products, so I have no idea what is causing it, and hoping someone here has a solution.

Thanks in advance!

~Wolfie~

Hey, Wolfie, I'm going to move your post to the Poser forum, where more people will see it that can answer your question!  I don't have an answer, but someone should!

Jeni

JenX has moved this thread from the Community Center forum to the Poser forum as of Wednesday, October 26, 2011 5:07 pm.

Thanks Jen!  I am not very forum savvy so appreciate that!

~Wolfie~

You're welcome!  :) 

I've been wondering about this too.

Well I am glad I am not the only one pulling my hair out!  :-)
I was thinking it was something stupid that I might have done in my settings, but I've gone over them and over them....

~Wolfie~

What is the full pathname of the folder which contains the missing thumbnails?

In Windows explorer do a right click on the folder and select properties. The full pathname is displayed at "location"

Well in this case, the thumbs that are missing, are thumbs such as all the gen 4 figure's thumbs, and their morphs...  Support products, such as a character by Godin, for instance, show up just fine.

The path however for the thums I showed in my screen shot above is:

C:Program FilesSmith MicroPoser Pro 2010RuntimeLibrariesPoseDAZ's Victoria 4Morph Injections

I always install Poser into the C drive, and all bases and their morphs into Poser's Runtime directory.

~Wolfie~

Thanks, I wanted to verify there were no "strange" characters in the path or a UNC network connection. That is not the case.

You are running PP2010. What OS are you using?

Vista and Windows 7 can potentially be problematic with data in the program folders.

(You don't need to have the DAZ installers in the main runtime. In P8, P9, PP2010 and PPw2012 they van be in the external runtimes.

Did you have the problem since you installed the DAZ figures?

I am running Windows 7.

As for the installers, since P7 and some of the Daz installers insisting things be installed into the Poser runtime, it's just been something I do... For bases and morphs, that is.  Everything else is installed in it's own runtime.

It seems to only be Daz related products.  I've gone through dozens of folders to try and pin point what it might be... Even the thumbs for things I've owned for years, like V3 poses, work just fine.  I've even gone so far as to try removing the spaces out of the names to see if that could be it.

Well, back to the installers... I have all my base figures installed into a temp folder which I use to copy and paste them into a fresh Poser install.  I just added that temp folder as an external runtime in P8/10 and now the thumbs show up.  So it must be, as you said, a W7/Programs folder issue.  sigh

~Wolfie~

Quote - Well, back to the installers... I have all my base figures installed into a temp folder which I use to copy and paste them into a fresh Poser install.  I just added that temp folder as an external runtime in P8/10 and now the thumbs show up.  So it must be, as you said, a W7/Programs folder issue.  sigh

~Wolfie~

Windows 7 uses some kind of virtual folder for (data) items which have been put in the programs folder. To make it look like they are still in the right place, Windows 7 redirects references to the Program folder to the virtual folder. Unfortunately that does not always work. Sometimes programs bypass the "official" way to access folders and files. In some cases the redirection does not work and you get this problem where some part of the program thinks files are there and other parts cannot reach it. This is what apparently happens here.

The best thing is to keep all the installed items outside of the program folders - that is the recommended way since Poser 8 and prevents these kind of problems. DAZ has not updated its recommendation for installing the milennium 4 generation since it was released, so it never was adapted for Poser 8+, Windows 7  (and Vista)

Well that is good news then, at least for me, cause I always hated installing anything into the Poser runtime.  I much prefer externals.. So much cleaner, and easier to delete stuff when no longer needed...  :-)

Thanks so much for all the help wim!

~Wolfie~