Why Daz uses so much space Mac OSX

niculescuady

I am running Daz Studio 3.10 on a Mac Pro 5.1 OSX Yosemite.

I have a 1Tb SSD drive and I was notiffied it was getting full and I am trying to clean it up.

I have about 67Gb used by Daz in my Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Daz Connect Library/data/Cloud

Is this normal?

I have a bunch of stuff purchassed but all this does not show under my regular library where I save my stuff.

I was wonderring what is this folder used for? Is that some sort of cloud backup? Can I delete some fo those files?

Thank you in advance.

Richard Haseltine

That folder is the content you installed through Connect - the Install pane, the products tab of the Smart Content pane, or the products list of the Content Library pane. The items will appear un Daz studio Formats>Daz Connect, Poser Formats>Daz Connect, and in the category-based content panes. You can chnage the location of the Connect Data folder (which would be Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Daz Connect Library/ - the Data folder isn't part of the path) in the Content Directory Manager, which can be reached by going to Daz Studio>Preferences>Content tab.

niculescuady

Thank you. So can I delete the Data file then?

Richard Haseltine

If you delete it you won't have the content in it. You can move it, however.

niculescuady

Oh, thank you, I'm glad I didn't ...

So that's the folder with all my downloaded content, correct? 

Richard Haseltine

The Data folder has the asset files - the geometry, morphs, UV maps, and rigging - for the content. The Runtime folder has textures (and Poser fomrat content). The rest of the folders (except for readme's) have the user-facing files that are used to load content.

niculescuady

Oh, thank you, I'm glad I didn't ...

So that's the folder with all my downloaded content, correct? 

Richard Haseltine

Connect installed content will be in /Data/Cloud in the Daz Connect data directory, other content will be spread across various folders in the content dirctory it was installed to.