Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Legacy Poser External Library and Win 7 64 bit troubles

KageRyu opened this issue on Mar 07, 2023 ยท 13 posts


KageRyu posted Tue, 07 March 2023 at 1:08 AM

Not sure if anyone will be able to assist or not given that I am working in Poser 2014. Trying to get back into finishing some products I started years ago before my father became gravely ill - been running into problems after problems.

Recently had a major HD failure on the workstation I was using that was running Poser Versions from 7/Pro through 2014 Pro. Lost a lot of work and content. Was able to save most of my Development files for Poser figures in the Dusk/Dawn series, though I do not have enough HD space on the machine in question now to resume work on it or reinstall.

Moved what I could over to a Windows 7 machine that I had been using as a Render Node. It had Poser 2012 Pro and 2014 GD on it but I had not used it much. I reverted GD to Poser 2014 Pro, and moved over my development runtime and linked it to my external backup runtime with all of my older content for scene building (same thing I was doing on the workstation...except the scene building runtime was on a local HD).

Library Manager with the External Library is giving me odd behavior in 2010, 2012 and 2014 on both Windows 7 machines I have tried it on. Icons are not loading properly, library images will sometimes not load properly, sometimes the interface buttons of library manager will not load properly, and it is across 3 versions of Poser on 2 machines now. I use the external Library window, and I was sure I had read about this issue before, but was not experiencing the problem at the time, so I do not remember the causes or fixes. I think it was something having to do with Adobe Air (which is not longer even supported).  Everything I am finding looking is for the issues with the embedded library and not helpful for this issue. I think the threads that may have discussed this were on the old RDNA forums, but at the time my installs on Windows XP were working fine.

Random buttons and icons in the library folders as well as the controls themselves are missing and have those graphic placeholder boxes.

I am very frustrated and at the moment have again given up on making any art or content. If anyone out there knows what I am looking at, please help.


I really need to get this fixed. Using a 3rd party library manager is not feasible, upgrading poser is not a fix as I need these versions working, and a new computer/os is out of the question.  I am hoping someone knows what is causing this.

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