How to stop Poser 11 looking for “missing textures”

How to stop Poser 11 from spending ages automatically searching the hard-drive for “missing textures”, while at the same time preventing you doing anything else in Poser. Effectively, this problem simulates what may must like “a fatal crash” to many new users. Most often this happens on trying to load older freebie content that was poorly-installed via an ‘un-zip and manually install’ process.

Go: Top menu bar | Edit | General Preferences | Library | File Search | set to Shallow (or None) | OK.

Shallow is probably best.

You want to to make this setting after your initial install of Poser, as ‘Deep’ is probably what the software will require for its ‘first pass’ at indexing your runtimes. Once that initial index is built, and only needs to be incremented thereafter, then it can be switched to ‘Shallow’.