ok, where's the school theater I bought but cannot find to install? a detective mystery.  screenshots follow:

forgot to add Props. here:

If Poser was open at the time of purchase, refresh the Poser Library.

You're looking here

You should be looking here

Good one, RP.  I didn't notice the wrong tab.

I had a moment of hope, so I refreshed library and then looked at new purchases:

Okay, did you download this file to your HD?

Yes I showed it in downloads

one thing amiss, maybe? the contents of the file aren't dark, they're grayed out. is that usual?

That looks like it may be still zipped.

You will have to unzip it. I'm not sure what software Macs use for unzipping. But you will need to extract the content from the zip file like you have with other things, like the earpods we talked about.

If Poser was open when you made the purchase, you might need to hit the check for new purchases before it will show up on the purchases tab.

I’ll check on that. I wondered if something like that happened…

There was a bug that content zipfiles with the extension in all caps (.ZIP) wouldn't get unzipped.They were copied, as still zipped into the runtime folder.

This has since been fixed. Be sure you're on the latest version of Poser.

I found school theater.pz3 file in props folder in runtime, where posed to be, I dull clicked on it and got a scene:

now what???

drawn (with hands pressed together in thank you or prayer gesture)...

I searched for Greenpots the vendor of the invisible/missing theater and found lotsa stuff, but no theater?

Unfortunately, the way this particular zip file was assembled, the file to load the entire scene is not within a Poser folder.  Look for a Schooltheater.pz3 file within that runtime folder; that file will load the entire scene.  Technically, the pz3 file should have been placed into the Scene Category of the Poser Library, but this set is old and created for an earlier Poser version.

Consult the readme documentation for further information.

sayeth hborre;"Technically, the pz3 file should have been placed into the Scene Category of the Poser Library,"

yes, I found the pz3 file,

moved it to my desktop amongst screenshots, and am looking for the right place to drop it. Lots of Props folders around but you say Scenes is appropriate. How/where can I locate the right folder to drop the pz3 into? Or is that naive?

thanks, don

No, you need to recreate a new folder for the scene file.  This has been a problem with vendors that provide a completed scene file with the prop files but fail to generate a proper Scene folder.  Again, some sets are dated and were created when Poser did not have a Poser Library Scene Category. 

Create a folder in the Scene folder and name anything you like.  Drop the scene file in that folder.  Make sure that the new folder exists in the same runtime as your prop files.

Oh dear