Accidentally replaced my runtime folder HELP!!!

tikka

Hi all, new user!  I have the newest Daz3d studio on my recently purchased macbook pro and when going through the mundne task of dragging my files from my PC on a jump drive to my mac I accidentally hit 'replace' instead of 'merge' for my runtime folder ...as soon as I realized the boneheaded mistake I immediately hit cancel and now for some reason the 'runtime' folder is completely gone.  I tried using easus file recovery (this is a new macbook so I haven't done the time machine backup yet) to no avail....does anyone know any other way to recover the runtime folder? (it's not in the trash bin either--and I did a file search to no avail)  I had already spent quite some time building up all my libraries on this laptop that I'm dreading going through all that again...if the folder is unrecoverable is my only option to re-install daz3d studio to get the original 'runtime' necessities that came with the program?

Thanks much for any assistance!!! 

Richard Haseltine

Have you checked the Trash Can? I assume that the file recovery tool already did the check for areas marked for deletion, which would have been the enxt thing to try. Reinstalling DS won't do anything - it doesn't isntall content - so if you have the content already on the laptop/jump drive you should be able to copy it across again - though you will then need to reimport metadata to get the database populated. If there was content you had installed directly on the Mac then that will need to be uninstalled and reinstalled.