Changing folder locations
Hey folks.
Still relatively new to DAZ. I have been playing around with it for about a month, mostly learning. I have bought a bunch of the content items, like new shader packs and so forth. At one point I was looking for the files, and I realized that I must have made a mistake when I installed DAZ... Everything, and I mean everything, is going into C:\Users\Public\Public Documents (and sub-folders within there). I really do not want my DAZ stuff on the C: drive. It's relatively small and I try to keep most applications off of it... the D: drive is larger and that's what it is there for.
Now, at this point, I know that DAZ is probably convinced that this is where it is going to keep things and convincing it otherwise is probably a lost cause unless I wipe everything and do a complete and total reinstall. But I was hoping there might be a way to move these files and explain the new location to DAZ that would be fairly painless and would allow me to skip all the re-DLing and re-installing.
Anyone know a way I can do that?
Thanks.
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Your content folder can be any place you like. All you have to do is be sure DAZ Studio is pointed to it. My content folder (All DIM by they way) lives on my D drive and I have not one issue. I do allow the DIM its logs and the CMS and its Data to live on C. They are small and the Data files are all text based so small as well. But they could be moved as well with a bit of work.
Here is my Default DIM and DAZ Studio settings for my D drive content set up. And of course they loaded backwards... LOL.
Just MOVE or copy your Content folder to a new place and then POINT DAZ Studio to it in the PATHS as shown in my Top image above.
Well... OK, guys. Here is what happened.
I moved my folders, as suggested. I changed the folders in the installer. The installer asked me to reinstall everything, even though ti was already there. I figured OK, no problem.
However, once that was done, the main DAZ .exe file (the application itself) somehow got deleted. I have no idea how. I did not change the default path for the application, only for the library. The application should not have been touched.
I went back to the installer and saw that DAZ Studio was now ready to install. OK, I let it install. First to the default location. It starts the installation, gets to 7%, then reads as "done" but nothing happens. I tried changing it to the D: drive along with everything else -- same problem. I click install, it starts, it goes to the "installed" side of things in the installer, but on the hard drive, no folders or other assets are created. Nothing is being installed, and the DAZ executable no longer exists on my hard drive.
So... I am not sure what to do now, other than, as I was trying to avoid, uninstalling all-everything and trying to do a clean install. Any advice before I do that?
Download and try the manual, non-DIM installer...
At this point I believe that is the only option. I did not know your DIM was set to install programs, and I never said to use DIM at all. I said move or copy your CONTENT folder and then POINT DAZ studio to it in the Prefs. After that was working DIM would have been reconfigured to use the new location of the folder.
I posted mine to show it can be done, but mine was set up that way the very first use. All I asked you to do was move your existing content folder and then change the paths in your existing DAZ Studio. Nothing more. Not once did I say USING DIM at all.
I guess I misunderstood. Also, since I did not tell DIM to change where the application was installed, I did not anticipate that it would go in and delete, but not replace, the executables.
It's late... so I will try and fix this tomorrow. Thanks for the help.
OK, so... my problems have not gone away.
I uninstalled everything... DAZ, DIM, etc.
Then I DLed DIM and reinstalled it.
When DIM reinstalled, it somehow remembered that all my products other than DAZ itself (morph sets, etc) had already been installed, and has marked them as "installed" even though they were wiped. It now won't install anything... DAZ is there but I have nothing -- no figures, no anything. The My DAZ 3D Library folder is empty of everything but a scripts and runtime folder, both of which have almost nothing in them.
Clearly the uninstall did not "get" everything to completely clean it. I tried manually installing stuff, but although it pretends to do it, nothing happens.
Anyone know how to do a CLEAN complete uninstall?
Thanks.
Uninstall using the uninstallers, if any...then in your OS file manager, navigate to your content directories and at the topmost folder, select it and hit 'Delete'...then jump up a level and Delete any/all DAZ folders...
That's the 'nuclear' option.
It should, for the purposes of DIM, be enough to remove the contents of the C:\Users\Public\Documents\DAZ 3D\InstallManager\ManifestFiles folder.
Those steps are not sufficient, it appears. DAZ is sneaky. There was a DAZ 3D folder not only in Program Files, and not only in Users/Public, but also in Program Data... and it contained several .ini files. I am not sure if I got them all... I am going to try again. But the clue-in for me is, when I start up DIM and it remembers my name and password... it means I didn't "get" everything.
I've done a massive system search and purge of all things with the name DAZ or DAZ3D in them in all folders I can find. If this doesn't kill it... I dunno. It may be "system restore" time. :/
CCleaner...and use that to purge the registry of all things Daz related, too...before doing a system restore.
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
I think I finally got it. I'm installing stuff as we speak. And it seems to be putting it all into the right folders.