Putting all my content on one HDD - and then moving it?

steve_kerry_uk2_64ed27c294

I have two PCs: the one I am typing on now, and another isolated machine that never EVER goes online.  My DAZ content is spread over several folders, and across several HDDs, and I can never remember where I put things.  I plan to get another HDD (a big one!) and install ALL my 3D content on it so it is all together.

Ideally I would place this new blank HDD in a pod or enclosure, download and install a fresh copy of all my content (yikes!), then physically move the pod to my offline machine and keep it there.  Not copy it to the offline machine, just work directly off the pod.  Whenever I acquire more content I would bring the pod back to this (online) PC, install the new items to it, then take it back to the offline PC again.

Is that practical?  Is it as simple as plugging the pod in, pointing DS at it, and seeing everything appear in my Content folder?  Am I overlooking something?

Cheers

Steve

JD_Mortal

That is the general idea...

If you manually move content, it should be only the un-installers which will not work correctly. They will expect the content to be in the place it installed to.

I keep some of my personal creations on a removable drive. Daz will just complain about missing files, if you have updated the database to point to a drive that does not exist, which has the content. Plug it back in, and it will continue as if nothing ever happened. Just remember that you NEED it plugged-in, if you ever reset the database and then update it to "look in know locations for files". Otherwise the items will not be seen in Daz, even if you later hook-up the hard-drive.

steve_kerry_uk2_64ed27c294

That's good to know, thanks :)