Before I asked this question I searched the forum to see if anyone else had addressed this, and much to my surprise I found an almost identical question asked by no other than ME! Alas, it was never answered so I'll try again.

Poser is doing something very strange to my newly added favorites. The Favorites tag shows some favorites that I added months ago, but not the recently added ones. Within any Poser session I can add favorites, but when I go to the Favorites tab they are not there. The old ones show up, but not the new ones. If I try to re-add the same favorites that got lost, Poser tells me that it is a duplicate.

So, after much mucking around, I found the black hole into which the new favorites were going. It is C:UsersPublicDocumentsPoser 8 ContentRuntime. I don't even know where that runtime came from.

So it seems I have three Poser 8 Content runtimes:

C:Program FilesSmith MicroPoser 8Runtime - This one, I believe, gets set up automatically when you install Poser.

C:UsersEl ZagnaDocuments3D ContentPoser 8 ContentRuntime -This one I set up explicitly so that it would be with my other runtimes.

C:UsersPublicDocumentsPoser 8 ContentRuntime - This is the one where all the new favorites go. I have no idea where it came from.

So what do I need to do to get all my favorites in one place, preferably the place that I choose.

My system:

*    Poser version: 8*

*    OS: Windows Vista*

I do not have the answer to your specific problem, but I have read a few times that no version of Poser should be installed in the Programs folder (due to access problems between User and Administrator) - maybe this is an odd example.

I wonder where you're supposed to install it then.

Something like:

C:Poser 8 or my fav
D:Poser 8

It's perfectly fine to install Poser into Program Files under Windows. It's just not a good idea to install content there.

If you want to have only one, single runtime in your main Poser folder containing all your content and everything, then it's best to install Poser somewhere other than Program Files. But that's not recommended. Installing your content to at least one external runtime seems to be the default recommendation, and Poser helpfully makes a runtime in Users/blah/blah unless you tell it otherwise.

I have no idea whether it will work or not because I've never tried to use favorites, but assuming your runtime in C/users/public documents is empty, you might try clicking on it in your Poser library, then when the running man with the minus sign shows up, clicking on that icon to remove this runtime entirely. It may be worth a shot, in any case.

Thanks for the input. The Runtime in the Program Files directory is essentially empty. I only use it to hold Python scripts. From what I can tell, any scripts that you want to have show up under the "Scripts" menu need to go there.

The "Public" runtime isn't empty, but since this is the first time I've even kown it existed, it's not part of my library. I don't remember telling Poser to set up a Runtime in the Public area. Nor do I know how it even finds it. There is no reference to it in any of the ini or xml files in the preferences area (C:Documents and SettingsEl ZagnaAppDataRoamingPoser8.0).

So I guess my question now is how can I tell Poser that I don't want or need this Runtime and to quit putting stuff there?

That runtime was created as one of the installation defaults, most likely when you installed P8 on your system.  You may have just overlooked the choices.

Well, I just deleted the "Public" runtime, and that seems to work. I'd still like to know how Poser even knew it was there since there is no mention of it in any setting.

As I posted, it was a default installation, of course Poser would know where it created it.  However, you wanted an originally named runtime for your content, so deleting it and linking to the other would solve your problem.

Sure. I guess this means that the location is hard coded in the exe or some dll. Odd.

Maybe you ticked a "share content between all users" checkbox on install?

Sorry, just a guess... I don't know for sure if such an install option exists for the Windows install... I'm running on Mac OS X... pretty sure I got that option on the mac installer.

Well... my main runtime (aside from the one in os x applications folder, which is equivalent to Window's "program files" folder, where my python scripts are installed) is certainly installed in that public/shared os x ("all users") folder... so I either chose such an option or else that is the default.

The extra runtime you mention has been created in what is effectively your "all users" folder, under Windows Vista.

Cheers