Hello everyone ! During the summer I had to replace my computer (an iMac). Doing a check on the various software, I realized that the Poser 11 library shows me the various items, but no longer in alphabetical order .. :( a real ruin: now to find things I put a life in it :( I have already tried to re-import one of the runtimes, but without success. Does anyone have any ideas, or has it happened to any of you? Thank you !

Do you mean as seen by File Explorer(Windows) or Finder(Mac)? That has more to do with the operating system than Poser. Maybe you have it set at the OS level to organize it all in that directory by size or date? It's easy to do accidentally...

There is a Poser preference called LIB_ITEMS_SERVER_SORT, which lives in the PoserPrefs file. This preference was added to account for the change in later releases of MacOS when SSD drives were introduced. Since solid state drives have a limit (though large) to their number of write cycles, directory routines in the OS were modified to no longer return alphabetically sorted lists of files, but rather storage sorted lists.

If you open the Python shell within Poser, typing the command:

>>> poser.PrefsLocation()

will show you where the prefs file is stored on your system. That's usually in /Users//Library/Application Support/Poser Pro/11, or something similar. The file you want, called PoserPrefs is a plain text file, but before you edit it, make a copy of it with another name or put a copy somewhere else. Before you edit the preferences file, make sure you shut down Poser, as it overwrites the file when it exits. Open the file in a text editor (I use BBEdit, but TextEdit works too), but not a word processor, so you don't get crap added, or the file format changed. Search for LIB_ITEMS_SERVER_SORT, and change the value you find there (either from 1 to 0, or 0 to 1) - I'm running MacOS Sierra 10.12.6, and the value I have is 1. I've also tried MacOS High Sierra, but I didn't have a spare SSD to install it on, so it's on an ordinary HD, and consequently wasn't formatted APFS, so it also doesn't give unsorted file lists. Save the preferences file and then reopen Poser. Refresh the Library, if need be and see what happens. It should then be OK.

The only problem which will remain is that the Recent Renders list may still be in some random order, as it apparently doesn't use that preference flag to have Poser sort the list before display.

When I look at the libraries, I don't see the entries in alphabetical order: this had never happened to me. I'm on an iMac.

Can you say which versions of MacOS you were running before and after the replacement? Going from sorted to unsorted implies a newer version of macOS, which Poser needs to be told how to compensate for, hence the preference file change. Did you try that?

Thank you all. I took notes. Next week he has to pass the technician for other things. I'll show him the notes and suggestions.

In Finder, choose menu Go/Library. You'll find the file there.

And making the change yourself is easy!

Pinging for great information.

I solved thanks to your help!