DAZ studio can't locate installed content all of the sudden
Serene Night
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I saved my work last night, went to bed, and decided to start up a render before doing chores. It asked for the morphs, the character, and outfits to be reinstalled. Nearly Everything in the scene and oddly somethings that weren't like poses. But as far as I can see the content is all there. I doesn't need to be reinstalled. I don't use connect either. Even dim thinks its there.
Worse, I just reinstalled everything last month, so I know everything's there.
I checked the directory mapping and we're all good... So what has happened? Is there anything I can do to get it to recognize whats installed?
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Is CMS running (all those PostgresSQL Server processes under Daz Studio Application in Task Manager)? Have you tried rebooting your computer?
I restarted. I reinstalled studio. PostgresSQUL are running and there are tons of them.
Seems to have lost connection to my data file. It is looking for it in the wrong place. Ooh... Boy, I'm very frustrated, because all my stuff looks bad now.
Is your content on an external drive that got mapped to a different drive letter?
Does the Content Directory Manager in Daz Studio have the correct paths to your content libraries?
No, I have most of my content in the same location on one drive.
It seems to be looking for items in a directory I don't have. I can't fathom it. It is like something happened over night to sever the links between my directories of content. However, its really all there.
Can you load the base content, just not the scene, or is it both?
The scene will load, with blocky missing items. For the most part, reinstalling the content solves the problem, however it still struggles to find morphs which even though I install via dim, it seems to want some from a different directory. the odd thing is the items are really where they are supposed to be.
The hard thing is the morphs. Even if I fix the scene mostly, all my saved files are pointing to directories it cant find... It seems to be looking for a windows profile that doesn't exist anymore. Its frankly a bit odd.
Did you get a Windows update last night? In another thread a user posted something similar to this, where his content, including all his documents disappeared and he was forced to log in with a Microsoft account. (If I remember correctly).