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Sharing content across machines

breid7718_7522dd08e7breid7718_7522dd08e7 Posts: 10
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I have a laptop and desktop I go back and forth with, and I'd like to use DazStudio on both of them.  The idea I have is to install DazStudio and content to an external hard drive, then simply move that back and forth between my two machines.  I recognize that the drive will need to be the same letter in both situations and I'll have to run the installer on both machines, pointing to the same external drive location.  I want to do this versus just installing twice and carrying project files back and forth because I don't want to install new content twice every time I add a freebie or a purchase.

Is this approach going to work and is there anything in particular I would need to look out for?  If I do work organizing my library and categorizing items, will that transfer over as well?

TIA

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,804

    You might be able to put the CMS database on the removable drive too and so have to install most things only once - but it's not soemthing I've tried. Anything that needed to go in the application folder (plug-ins,  and some scripts and shaders mainly) would need a sepaarte installation on both systems.

  • TomDowdTomDowd Posts: 198
    edited May 2020

    Buy a small ethernet desktop switch (unmanaged) (about $10-$15) and then share the external drive off of your desktop. Put both the desktop and the laptop on the switch. Mount the shared drive on your lapatop and point the copy of DAZ Studio on the laptop at the mounted drive for its content library. Both machines will be able to then access the same content files. Optionally, there are external drives that come with built-in ethernet that you can just put on the switch. 

    Tom

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  • breid7718_7522dd08e7breid7718_7522dd08e7 Posts: 10

    Sorry to confuse the issue - the point is to have my content library when on the road.  My laptop is not powerful enough to do serious renders and the like, but I thought that I could at least organize content, categorize things, etc. while travelling.

  • TomDowdTomDowd Posts: 198

    Got it.Then what Richard replied should work. You could try and do something fancy with file synrconization software that is used to create mirrors of drives. I use Syncredible to mirror my DAZ library folder onto a portable drive. The software keeps the two in sync so that any changes on either drive are mirrored on the other. 

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