DAZ Install Manager Media move to another disk?

agate888

Hi...my C drive is filling up, and want to move all my Daz Content to a different internal drive.  What's the easies way to do this and still have scenes already created continue to find the objects and such?

Richard Haseltine

Scenes and presets will not be an issue - at least as long as the content is in a content directory - as DS uses relative paths (where the file is within the content directory) rather than absolute (the location starting from the drive name).

Install Manage does store the absolute locations for installed items, in the .dsx files in the Manifests folder, so if you just move the content you may have issues (you can, in the installation tab of DIM's preferences - launched from the gear icon at top right - tell it to install updates to the current install location, not the original, which should handle most cases but you may get the occasional update which needs to remove a file and not replace it).

The main thing is to update the content patsh in DS and DIM. Rob has a couple of scripts, which you can download and run by dragging the download into DS, that will update DS to use the DIM path or vice versa:

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/file_io/install_manager_config/start
http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/file_io/install_manager_config_import/start