DAZ 4.10 Fresh Installation setting Path to new Drive

PixelPie

I apologize if this is mentioned somewhere else. I want to place all of my content on another drive (D:) because I don't have a lot of space on C:\  and DAZ doesn't appear to be reading my new directories..It seems it may be looking for my old content. Is there some copy of the metadata I missed? any suggestions are welcome so I hopefully don't have to start over. If possible can someone here give me examples of how their directories look if they have installed content on an alternate drive in both DAZ and DIM?

Here is what I have done:
*I deleted my earlier installation of studio 3 and 4.9 and installed DAZ 4.10.  

*reinstalled to D:\Program Files.. both for 64 bit apps and 32 bit apps--DAZ 3D Studio 4.10, Bryce, Cararra, etc and Poser Pro 11--the DIM keeps asking for Poser 2012 or 2014 when trying to install the DSON Importer for Poser
*backed up/moved my old content directories from:C:\My documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My library..etc to a server drive on G--so am trying to start over on D:\ for this directory as it is really large

*I have changed the path in the DIM And DAZ 4.10 preferences for all of the software and runtimes to D:\
D:\Poser 11 Content
D:\DAZ 3D\My DAZ 3D Library--set as recommended path in DIM (vs public documents path which I removed)
D:\DAZ 3D\--as a download location indicated in DIM

After ALL of this, I tried to download and install a fresh copy of Cookie! to D:\DAZ 3D\My DAZ 3D Library and I received an error message when attempting to load it something like: "cannot locate {insert path}...etc.cr2 path"

Any suggestions or pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated.

Richard Haseltine

Could you post screen shots of the Content Directory manager in DS and the Installation tab in Install Manager's preferences, showing the paths, so we can check those are correct.

As for the DSON Importer, the fix is to lie - tell DIM you have the 2014 version installed, rather than 11, and it should work.

PixelPie

Richard Haseltine said:

Could you post screen shots of the Content Directory manager in DS and the Installation tab in Install Manager's preferences, showing the paths, so we can check those are correct.

As for the DSON Importer, the fix is to lie - tell DIM you have the 2014 version installed, rather than 11, and it should work.

Ok, this is good to know about the DSON Importer for Poser - I did this and it worked. I may have finally gotten it to work.

Below are screenshots. 

I am also seeing a "lost and found" directory - what is that?

 

Richard Haseltine

You shouldn't have any of those Program Files foldrs active in the Installation tab, anything that needs to go in the application folder is handled by knowing where the application is, from the Application tab.

No, you can't - as I recall - have just the drive root set as a content directory, it has to be at least one folder down from that.

Did you install anything with Connect before moving to using D:? If not you are safe to remove the C: path - DS adds it if you chnage the Connect Data location so that previously installed content will still be found.