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New computer and files on secondary hard drive. DIM wants to reinstall everything

jenniferhugheyjenniferhughey Posts: 404
edited June 2019 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

Background: I had a setup where Daz was on C and my content was on a secondary drive. Then My PC was upgraded and now am using a different C drive that was empty. Installed new version of Daz and installed DIM pointing to my secondary drive (E) but now DIM wants to install all my files again. Is there something I missed? I thought all I did before was pointing content to my secondary drive? Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Oh and I have a custom folder structure I don't want to mess with over there as well..

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  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232

    DAZ|Studio and DIM don't talk to one another, they just happen to use the same folder locations for installed content files. If you aren't using the default content locations, you have to set them manually in both D|S and DIM.

  • Umi no Senshi no IshiUmi no Senshi no Ishi Posts: 330

    You might also need to copy over your manifest folders to your new setup so DIM knows that the items are loaded. This is what I had to do on my similar situation to yours.

    Sorry I'm not in front of my Daz computer, otherwisse I'd offer up the default location. If you do a google search of the forums for "Manifest files" you should get the info. Or try this one: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/265586/dim-manifest-file-location-question

  • jenniferhugheyjenniferhughey Posts: 404
    SpottedKitty said:

    DAZ|Studio and DIM don't talk to one another, they just happen to use the same folder locations for installed content files. If you aren't using the default content locations, you have to set them manually in both D|S and DIM.

    I thought I had, but something must be off..

  • jenniferhugheyjenniferhughey Posts: 404
    Umi no Senshi no Ishi said:

    You might also need to copy over your manifest folders to your new setup so DIM knows that the items are loaded. This is what I had to do on my similar situation to yours.

    Sorry I'm not in front of my Daz computer, otherwisse I'd offer up the default location. If you do a google search of the forums for "Manifest files" you should get the info. Or try this one: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/265586/dim-manifest-file-location-question

    Ah, maybe that's it, I'll read up, thanks!

     

  • jenniferhugheyjenniferhughey Posts: 404
    jenniferhughey said:
    Umi no Senshi no Ishi said:

    You might also need to copy over your manifest folders to your new setup so DIM knows that the items are loaded. This is what I had to do on my similar situation to yours.

    Sorry I'm not in front of my Daz computer, otherwisse I'd offer up the default location. If you do a google search of the forums for "Manifest files" you should get the info. Or try this one: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/265586/dim-manifest-file-location-question

    Ah, maybe that's it, I'll read up, thanks!

     

    nope, doesn't work. Thanks for the help though.

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