I need to remove a saved subset scene from Saved Files

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Okay, I've run into an annoying little snag.  I created a scene subset, then realised I needed to adjust one of the sliders before saving, so I redid the item with the adjustment made and tried to save it out under the same name as before to overwrite the old copy, but accidently got the name of the new one slightly different, so it left the old copy intact.  I then physically removed the obsolete copy ouf of the scene subsets folder (by going into the folder independently of DS and moving it out of there to a holding-pattern folder elsewhere).  Now it shows up in Saved Files with an exclamation-triangle symbol.  I gather from over here that I can tell DS to remove selected items from the DB by left-clicking it and selecting certain options, or by right-clicking it and selecting certain options, but... nothing of the sort is appearing in my menus.

Also, that wiki page seems to have been missing its images for as long as I've been going to that guide (which is probably a year or so now). Without the reference images, the guide is largely useless, because so many of the instructions there seem to assume you've got the images in front of you to go by.  It apears the whole wiki system got migrated over from some other website, but they somehow didn't bring the pictures over with the move.  I kept thinking the missing pictures problem was a temporary whoopsy and that they'd have the images restored in a couple weeks or something, but.... well, they've been gone months now, and there's no sign at all they're trying to bring the images back in.  When I asked over here about this, nothing useful came of it.  oO

But I digress.  How do I remove the 4 orphaned files from my Saved Files tab?  There is no Remove Orphans option anywhere I have been able to find from those instructions.  I don't want to do the Cleaning Up the Database option, because that sounds like it might take hours. I am on the Highway interface style.

Cris Palomino

Did you remove the scene subset from within DS? Right-click and delete?

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At the top, I have the Actors, Wardrobe & Props tab selected, and then under Smart Content tab I have selected the Saved Files tab, when I right-click one of the orphaned file's thumbnails, I see options for Open As New,  Merge Into Scene, two greyed-out options (Explore Add Ons, and Explore Targets), Explore User Assets..., Categorize, Group Assets As >,  Show Asset In >,  Browse to File Location....  There isn't any Delete option in there.

Richard Haseltine

Show Asset In>Categories, if that is there, then right-click>Remove Reference.

Richard Haseltine

nomad-ads_8ecd56922e said:

...  I gather from over here that I can tell DS to remove selected items from the DB by left-clicking it and selecting certain options, or by right-clicking it and selecting certain options, but... nothing of the sort is appearing in my menus.

Sorry, I missed the link - that's from the old Artzone wiki, so it's quite a few versions back. This is an area that cahnged quite a bit in DS 4.9.

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Richard Haseltine said:

Show Asset In>Categories, if that is there, then right-click>Remove Reference.

Right clicking and going to "Show Asset In >", all I see there is "Content Library > Mapped Folder" and below that, greyed out, is "Content Library > Products".  I don't see a "Remove Reference" there.

Richard Haseltine

No, you would need to find it in the category list, then right-click on that and select remove reference. Try going to the Categories list in the Content Library and see if it is under Saved Files there.

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Okay, that seems to have done it. TY