This never used to be a problem, but with all files that you get anymore some with poses and mats, all coming in their own directory, poser is not opening up some of the subdirectories in the Pose library. for example... you do know that poser reads the capital directories first and then the rest.... well I have a large number of directories under pose, the first few it reads fine, the lower ones that you scroll to, it just refuses to open... Now I might be able to cut this down some.... by doing some mass deletions of what I dont need.... I have a total of 394 pose directories.... that is most likely what is blowing it up.... still though, I hate to get rid of everything... next thing is to get rid of %80 of my p4 characters that I no longer need.... cant forsee a time that I will rather use the dork over mike... Darrin

Hi Darrin. Long time no talk to. I found that there is a problem with certain characters in folder names. Also, if a folder is too many levels down in other folders, it will show in the library, but won't work. Might not be the problem, but it's something to look at. Also, you never know when a dragon might need a Dork snack.

hey wyrwulf, becoming a bit more active in the forums lately... quit smoking so have more time heheheh yeah, I figured that was the problem, that the folder was so far downin the list it wouldnt open.... I got rid of a bunch, and now need to scrunch up even more... have a few folders with one file in them.... right now cleaning up chracters.... not getting rid of all, just the ones I never use.... I hardly even use the p4 woman anymore, but if I do it is one of 5-10 figures... I have 50 female characters in the folder :) so a little pruning is in order D

I ran into the same problem awhile ago. Apparently Poser doesn't know how to cope with a wealth or resources. One similar problem I'd found is that I'd click on one Pose folder, and it would load something entirely different. I've also had so many folders that Poser only showed the first 4-5 letters of any given folder name. That makes things almost impossible. Hopefully Curious Labs is aware of this, and has already fixed the problem in Poser 5.

Wow, 394 pose folders! Don't delete them - you can store them somewhere else, then return them to the Pose folder when you want to work with them. You can even do it on the fly, without shutting Poser down. Just activate another library like Figures (not a Pose sub-library), move the files into the Pose folder. When you activate the Pose library again the sublibrary files will show up ready to use. Don't delete Posette and Dork yet. Not only are they useful lower-polygon figures for group scenes (and dragon snacks?), but somebody I know is working on very cool things with them. Hey Darrin, congrats on the smoke-free. Using the cig money for Poser goodies now?

Ron, I wondered why I wasnt seeing the whole directory name! I have cut it down to 175 subfolders... (from 340) and that seems to work a little better... I have a number of folders with one or 2 files in them so they can be merged too... D

gryffnn, I was just deleting those figures that I really dont have a need for... ones that I havent used in like ....ever :) and just consolidated poses pretty much... I deleted a lot, but mostly down to the level of saying , "do I need 35 poses of a girl crawling?"

Remember folks, you can backup your runtime folder, just in case you change your mind. Of course if you have lots of stuff, you might want to zip each individual folder within runtime (Poses, characters, etc.) This is also great insurance in case you have a hard drive crash, like I did.

I've just started running into this myself, and could only come up with the same solution - consolidate a bunch of those folders with only one or two items, and move the basically unused ones elsewhere (backup or what have you.) Looks like Poser works best with about 100 folders or directories ineach library area, though my Poses libary seems a bit more finicky. Weird, and yeah, they need to come up with a better libraries interface.