Reinstall content

Pinzelmeister

I recently up-graded from Windows 7 to 10. This involved a lot of re-installing, including DAZ. I have Studio running now (4.11 64 bit) and can see most of my "content" in backed-up directories, but need some help getting DAZ to "find" things. I.e. for example I had some nice Genesis figures going, however when I open them now they look like white clay blocks. Perhaps someone could point me to a tutorial on how to re-establish links etc? (I have done this before . . . but it's been a long time. Import-export metadata perhaps? Not even sure how to do that at this point.)

bicc39

(4.11 64 bit)

Older version, assume on reinstallation you reinstalled "starter essentials"

White clay blocks, Daz cannot find figure. morph, etc

With daz open, under the tab" content library", right click DAZ Studio Formats, it will say "add a base directory."

Browse to Runtime(s) you backed up.

Make sure that the reinstalled default runtime, with starter essentials is one of those listed

Luck

nicstt

if you back up AppData Roaming Daz 3D and (Studio4  or Studio4 Public Build) then saving these can help with some settings. (C:\Users\[WHAT EVER YOUR COMPUTER IS CALLED HERE]\AppData\Roaming\DAZ 3D\Studio4 Public Build)

Another to do is save the registry settings for Daz

Then there is the public documents too: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Daz 3d\InstallManager

Pinzelmeister

Thanks - I will give these suggestions some consideration. To be clearer: I installed DAZ on a drive called H. My Library is there also, with all the files intact as far as I can see. See attachment. When I double-click on one of the duf files saved in Studio 4, DAZ starts up and mostly does find the obj file, but not the textures (or morphs etc on more complex figures). So I assume I need to move the texture files etc to where DAZ is looking for them, but it's hard for me to tell from the duf file where it is looking.

ben98120000

To see where DAZ Studio is looking for files go to Edit - Preferences - Content - Content Directory Manager...Than click on triangles in front of DAZ Studio Formats and Poser Formats. If "My Library" is set as your main content folder, than folders (from your picture) data, People, ReadMes and Runtime which are outside of My Library should be moved inside My Library folder. If you already have those folders inside of My Library folder than move and merge those from ouside with those already inside My Library.

Pinzelmeister

So I took a while getting back to this . . . but yes, thanks a lot. I did as "ben98" suggested and the problem was quickly solved. (DAZ was looking, by default, for my files on C. Once I told it to look on H everything was squared away.)