Occasionally getting mixed new/old icons on my library pane similar to this (new-style square props icon, all the others are old-style round ones).

Any ideas why ?

I get the same thing. Usually, it seems to be when I've had two versions open at the same time. No idea why it happens.

Me too - in my case I suspect it may be connected with when I fire up my external library browser, because it seems to happen sometimes if I do this while Poser is in the early stages of starting up. I just hit refresh on the browser and all will be well. I realise this may not be an option if you use the internal library of course.

I never run PP2014 and P11 at the same time, because the renderers seem to get tangled up in interesting ways (as in the well-known curse, 'may you live in interesting times').

RedPhantom: I've only got Poser 11 installed, so it's nothing to do with multiple versions (at least not in my case)

EnglishBob: I'm using the default built-in library, so it's not that either - at least not in my case again.

However, I have most of my runtimes on an external HDD and I've noticed that the library pane takes a long time to display - I'm fairly sure it's longer than it used to take when they were all on the internal drive.

A possible commonality across our situations may be that something else is going on during Poser's start up, and it's an odd timing problem ?

Forgot to mention I'm not using the latest version - I'm on 11.2.272

I'm running 11.3, but I'm fairly sure I've seen this behaviour on 11.2, and quite probably earlier versions too. I've used an external browser to access my library ever since I found out about the option - but the internal library pane is effectively a browser anyway, as I understand it, so it may be some odd timing issue.

No matter, it's only a cosmetic thing. Assuming of course that the underlying problem, whatever that be, isn't causing other less obvious but more worrisome symptoms.

What bugs me most is that I preferred the old icons, and Poser appears to be taunting me ! :)

I hate it when Poser taunts me. :D If you could find where the icons were stored, you could probably change them for something else. ;)

I don't think there's any lurking problem, for what it's worth. I've seen this behaviour for some time, and the library has never failed to function. It just looks a bit odd sometimes!

For what it's worth, the old-style icons (props = torus) are stored as individual layers within Runtime:ui:27100_library.psd. The new-style icons (props = hat) are stored as separate SVG files in the Runtime:ui:svg folder. The difference being, of course, that SVGs are vector images which allows the UI to be scaled to suit modern hi-res displays, whereas the PSD layered icons have a fixed pixel size and will end up tiny if your monitor has a high dpi value. My surmise is that the PSD layers are called up first by some bit of legacy code, and then are usually overwritten by the SVG versions - except that sometimes the library browser misses that bit of information.