Only 1 asset showing up in Products or Categories

Abeternal

I have moved DAZ Studio to a new machine, placed content on external drive, etc. Gone through the whole export userdata, import, reset db, re-import megadata... the works. 90% of my old content and many custom categories now work just fine. All the products in my library are present and functional. But I have encountered a rather peculiar problem: Certain products show only the first asset in the Products or Categories view. For example: Canine Journey poses will show one out of 25. The rest are simply not there. They are installed and working in their file location. Selecting all 25 there and trying to categorize them yields no result other than the poses now being recognized as "categorized"(yellow tick in dialogue box), but as soon as I navigate to the category, there is nothing but the solitary asset there was before. Trying to create a new category from the menu does the same.

I can create new categories from other products and populate them with assets just fine. I have reinstalled these products, checked whether their metadata is present in Support folder... and, of course, they work just fine on my old machine.

Any ideas?

Richard Haseltine

Are you sure that the content was correctly placed in mapped content directories when you reimported the metadata? If a file isn't found ant its supposed location when the metadata is being imported then DS will not add it to the database.

Abeternal

I cloned my installation from the previous machine to the new one, with the important difference of placing my contents on an external hd. I changed the installation path in DIM and the content path in DS. When I imported Metadata there were too many items missing, so I reinstalled every DAZ product through DIM (yes, it was painful). Now just about everything showed up, and was functional, except for these certain products (part of the reinstallation) that cannot be categorized as described above. IOW, the re-installation did nothing to correct this particular problem.

When I check the path for these products, everything is normal. After all, the first asset is shown in Categories and Products. It's the rest that shoulld be there (and according to Metadata IS there) that I cannot access. Here's what I have in my Library: File 1 attached, and here's what shows up in Categories: File 2 attached.

Abeternal

There is another issue I've noticed: When I install something manually, duplicate "shadow" assets appear.