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Harddrive bloated after downloading from Content Manager.

BurstAngelBurstAngel Posts: 762
in Daz Studio Discussion

I just downloaded an awful lot of my content using the content manager. But for some reason my C drive is fill by over a 100 gigs. I always download to an external harddrive so I can't figure out where the bloat is. Checked every folder I could think of. Am I missing something? Where did the bloat come from?

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,601

    Downloading with Daz Install Manager?  There are two locations you need to set, using the gear icon in the upper right of DIM:

    - on the Downloads tab, set the path for where the downloaded zips are saved

    - on the Installation tab, add the path(s) you want content to be installed to, and make sure to set the Current path to the one you want.

  • BurstAngelBurstAngel Posts: 762

    Thanks!

    It was the Public Download folder in the User folder. 361 Gigs! Do I really need this after I downloaded? Can I get rid of it without affecting anything else?

  • Former DAZ CustomerFormer DAZ Customer Posts: 167

    You can move it to a new location and change the setting in Install Manager to match.

  • BurstAngelBurstAngel Posts: 762

    But do I need it? Don't have room for 300 gigs of nothing.

  • Former DAZ CustomerFormer DAZ Customer Posts: 167

    Once you've installed those packages, I don't believe you need to keep the contents of that folder.  You might want to archive it, however, so that you have the install packages of the current version of DAZ Studio and plug-ins.

  • BurstAngelBurstAngel Posts: 762

    I guess I have to go through them and save the software stuff and delete the content ones. Okay, thank you for your help.

  • Seven193Seven193 Posts: 1,106

    If you delete all the zips, then DIM might try to download them all again, the next time you run it?

  • jestmartjestmart Posts: 4,449

    DIM reads the manifest files (that it writes when installing content) to know what is installed and what needs updating.  There is even an option on the Ready to Install tab of DIM to delete zips after installing.

  • tj_1ca9500btj_1ca9500b Posts: 2,057

    Yeah, I've cleaned out the .zips in that folder that DIM archives them in.  I left the tiny reference files behind, just because they are very tiny (1kb or so), and moved the .zips to my backup drive.  No issues in my case, DIM knows what's already been downloaded, so it doesn't need the .zips after that, but it's good to have those for later just in case something goes horribly wrong with your hard drive or something...

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