P.S. I posted the code snippets of how I'm currently finding the Smart+ andWorldball datafiles mainly for my own reference, so that I don't have to find my scripts and plough through them every time I want to check what I was doing before.

Both of those work without any problem on a Windows system, even with Poser installed to the Windows-approved location on the C drive, and even with with the datafiles under poser.AppLocation(). Because I'm only reading the files at present.

The problem will come when I try to write the files from my script.

Regarding the locations proposed by adp001 and ironsoul, and taking into account the location that SnarlyGribbley's EZSkin and EZMat use for saving their datafiles, I think that one of the following locations is probably the best:

C:Users:USERNAME:AppData:Local:Poser:MYDATAFILE.TXT

C:Users:USERNAME:AppData:Roaming:Poser:MYDATAFILE.TXT

I'm not sure of the difference between the Local and Roaming folders, so can anybody advise which would be better,and why ?

And I don't think it's necessary for me to use different locations for different Poser versions.The exact same scripts currently work in Poser 6,9 and PP2014*, and I want to avoid unnecessary duplication of the datafile.

I may also want to add a '3DCheapskate' subfolder. I've always found it useful to be able to simply do a Windows Explorer search using that to find where I've put all my files !

Any thoughts, comments, suggestions ?

*I no longer have Poser 6 or 9 installed, so I obviously can't say that with any certainty for any changes I make

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