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Need my Daz Studio offline. Can this be done?

Erik HeyninckErik Heyninck Posts: 158
in The Commons

I have been invited by friends in France to look after their house whilst they are on a long voyage. Thing is: their house is a kind of old farm, fifteen miles from the closest neighbouring village, and there is no Internet etc.
If I go - I'd love to - I'd take my laptop with me,  to be able to work on it. On it, I have my DAZ, which I would use.

But I cannot be online...

So: what should I do/do I have to do, to be able to work on it.

I have already looked into my Windows and Documents folder but I do not find my content anywhere... so, perhaps it is either encrypted or downloaded the moment I want to use it?

I run Windows 10.

Please, if you reply, try to be as detailed as possible because I  am not a super techie.

thanks!

Comments

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,848
    edited June 2020

    You don't need to be online to use DS, your content is installed locally on the computer.

    Do you have any content installed on that laptop already?

    Post edited by Leana on
  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715

    I never allow it to connect to the internet.

    DIM connects and downloads and installs what I need, or occasionally I manually install.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,931

    You can find the location of your content from the Content Directory Manager, launched from Edit>Preferences, or by right-click on a file>Browse to Folder Location.

  • GoggerGogger Posts: 2,417
    edited June 2020

    I am not at my DAZ Studio computer right now, but you can also find an item in your library, as if you were about to load it up for rendering, and right mouse click it and select "Navigate to file location' or something to that effect.  That is the fastest way I know to find the actual hard drive location of something. From there you can go up one level and so on. (At least in the Content Pane, I don't use Smart Content - no reason, I just don't.)

    Post edited by Gogger on
  • Erik HeyninckErik Heyninck Posts: 158

    Thanks. Much appreciated. I now know where they are - even made a quick link to the folder so I can't forget it, and I can now safely keep on using my Daz.

    What confused me was that, when you download without the manager, there seems to be that extra file that has to authorize the use.
    But as I use the Manager, that is not a problem.

     

  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,310
    Erik Heyninck said:

    Thanks. Much appreciated. I now know where they are - even made a quick link to the folder so I can't forget it, and I can now safely keep on using my Daz.

    What confused me was that, when you download without the manager, there seems to be that extra file that has to authorize the use.
    But as I use the Manager, that is not a problem.

     

    You might want to take along a portable drive to back up stuff.

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,784

    So where is/is there a setting in DS that turns off CMS always asking you to log in each time you open DS?

  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,310

    Perferences > Startup

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,784

    Thanks, got it.

  • Erik HeyninckErik Heyninck Posts: 158

    Thanks, Sevrin!

    Indeed: a good backup, just fort youneverknow.

    I got two Samsung portable ssd's with more than enough GB's on them.
    Better be a bit too well prepared that just not enough!

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