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"Missing files" after copying data over to new installation on new computer

Causam3DCausam3D Posts: 212
edited January 2019 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

Hello,

I'm running into a problem with one of my characters on a new installation of Daz on a new laptop.  When I try to load this character, I get a long list of missing files to include the genesis3female.dsf file. 

After some very careful checking (including, of course, recopying the "data" folder under "My Library" and making sure that all of the files were present), and doing the de-regeur contend db maintenance steps, I was still running in to the problem.  I looked more closely at the error log as well as the Missing files message and discovered an oddity, to whit:

data/daz 3d/paula /paula/genesis3female.dsf

....  etc etc.  Do you see it?  No it isn't the double directory entry "paula /paula".  Look very carefully at the FIRST "paula".  It's "paula ".  With a space after the folder name.  Odd. 

I checked the folder structure on the old laptop and the space does not exist in the pathname. 

Here's my question....  how do I edit and what, exactly, do I edit, to resolve this oddity?

FYI this copy took place in two ways, first via thumb drive and when that presented this odd space thing, I did a direct copy via wifi on a homegroup.  Same result.  The old laptop is a Windows 7 machine and the new one of course is Windows 10.

Any ideas?

EDIT:  I have of course checked the pathname on the new PC as well, and the space of course does not exist there, either.  So this is something to do with Postrgres, I'm thinking.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,759

    That is odd, but the whole path is off - what is the /data/Paula/paula folder from?

  • Causam3DCausam3D Posts: 212
    Richard Haseltine said:

    That is odd, but the whole path is off - what is the /data/Paula/paula folder from?

    it's under the "data" directory structure in "My Library".:

     

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  • Causam3DCausam3D Posts: 212

    This problem is not solved, but I did perform a work-around which I have outlined here in case others run in to this problem in the future:

    First, I exported the character figure on the old laptop at base resolution as a wavefront (obj) file.

    I then copied that model over to the new laptop, and loaded it as a morph to a standard Genesis 3 female using Morph Loader Pro.  IMPORTANT: please follow RKane_1's tutorial to make sure you do this correctly:

    TUTORIAL - Creating a Genesis series Full Body Morph for DAZ Studio Pro 4.10 by RKane_1

    After following that, I dialed up the morph, made sure I had the mats I wanted applied, and saved the result out as a character preset. 

    This doesn't explain or solve the original problem, but it was a good workaround that allowed me to continue with the migration of my custom characters to the new installation.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,759

    Yes, but it isn't where I would expect to find genesis3female.dsf - or anything else for that matter. Is Paula you? or a character you created from Genesis 3 Female?

  • Causam3DCausam3D Posts: 212

    No I'm not Paula, LOL  ;)

    She's one of the characters I created from Genesis 3 Female.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,759

    Creating a character shouldn't create a folder like that - it looks as if you used File>Save As>Support Assets>Figure/Prop Asset rather than saving a Character Preset. Doing that can cause problems, from what I have seen.

  • Causam3DCausam3D Posts: 212
    Richard Haseltine said:

    Creating a character shouldn't create a folder like that - it looks as if you used File>Save As>Support Assets>Figure/Prop Asset rather than saving a Character Preset. Doing that can cause problems, from what I have seen.

    Point taken Richard, and insofar as it goes, thumbs up.  However, I'd like to note that I've been loading and rendering Paula on the old laptop for over two years with that directory structure with no problem at all.  So what you say has nothing at all to do with why CMS (presumably) decided to insert an extraneous space at the end of a folder name on a fresh installation.  It isn't there in the filesystem of either machine, so I can only conclude that DAZ decided to get creative.

    So for me, the issue remains as a bug in DAZ and not the asset having been saved 'incorrectly' over two years ago.  It's worked fine on D 4.10 and 4.9 for a very long time on the old machine.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,759

    Well, I'm not really sure what precisely is causing the issue to suggest fixes. One thing that does occur, you have the content directories on the new system but are they listed in the same order? That might matter if there were two versions of a file, one with the bad referencs and one without. You can use Content Directory manager (launched from the Content tab of Edit>Preferences, Daz Studio>Preferences on a Mac) to reorder the listing if they don't match.

  • Causam3DCausam3D Posts: 212
    Richard Haseltine said:

    Well, I'm not really sure what precisely is causing the issue to suggest fixes. One thing that does occur, you have the content directories on the new system but are they listed in the same order? That might matter if there were two versions of a file, one with the bad referencs and one without. You can use Content Directory manager (launched from the Content tab of Edit>Preferences, Daz Studio>Preferences on a Mac) to reorder the listing if they don't match.

    Thanks Richard, I'll have a look at that.

     

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