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relocating Daz files to another drive

westernnomadwesternnomad Posts: 90
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I recently purchased a new hard drive and decided to devote an entire TB partition to my 3D art pursuits. However, when I relocated DS to the new drive, it seemed to bork a large portion of my library. There are exceptions, of course, but much is lost or corrupted. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling severy times, but each time it gets worse. Will I have to send it all back to my old overpopulated C: Drive, or could you offer me some workarounds? 

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,437

    Did you update the Content Directory Manager (Edit>Preferences, go to the Content tab, click Content Directory Manager) to the new locations?

  • westernnomadwesternnomad Posts: 90
    edited December 2019

    I discovered the problem.

    I didn't have the correct content directory structure. I found the products outside of the data directory. I discovered it when trying to create a specific example. When I moved the product to the data directory, it worked correctly.

    Should there be any product directories outside of the data directory? I'm not sure if that's the right question...

    I mean directories like Animals, Architecture, assets, auto_adapted, camera presets, etc.

    Here's a snapshot of my DIM settings and my current directory structure.

    What should I do to migrate everything to F:/Daz Studio/ ?

     

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,437

    What are the paths set to in DS - Edit>Preferences, go to the Content tab, click Content Directory Manager, take a screen shot showing all the paths for the current set.

  • westernnomadwesternnomad Posts: 90
    edited December 2019

    I have hundreds of directories under poser formats, but I intend to take care of them later on my own. I'm mainly concerned for my DS content working as intended.

    The "My Library" directory contains archived 3rd party product backups that I have yet to re-install.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,437

    Well, the ContentClustr should not be the same as a content dirctory, that's the database used by the Content Management system. What is the foldr in the middle of Daz Studio Formats that lacks a dtive letter?

  • westernnomadwesternnomad Posts: 90
    Richard Haseltine said:

    Well, the ContentClustr should not be the same as a content dirctory, that's the database used by the Content Management system. What is the foldr in the middle of Daz Studio Formats that lacks a dtive letter?

    When I clicked on the edit button to find out what it references, it's the same path as the entry below it - F:/Daz Studio/My Daz Library

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