Help Running 2 versions (not instances) of Daz.

jimmyzpop

Hello, Hopefully this wonderful, highly knowledgeable Daz community can help me out. My Daz library has became too large to have normal load times for characters and morphs. As I do not want to delete or remove different morphs and items from my runtime database, I have came to the conclusion that I would like to run two separate versions of DS 4.11 and 4.12. One version with my full library database synced, and one with just a lean database for performance. My question is, has anyone else done this or currently doing this on one computer, and what is the best way to install and configure DAZ around this idea? Install on the same drive non-partition, or one version on one HDD drive and another on a second HDD?  I am not sure if I run two versions will conflict with each other DS system files, or will scripts like renderque still will work on both versions or create errors. Are there any special configurations needed? I will continue to my DIM paths strictly for the full library database currently installed, and will do a manual transfer of files to the lean database.

I envision using DS with the full library to play around and find the items, environments and morphs that I would like to use. Then copy them to new lean data base library to work with and creation. I know it’s possible to unlink my full database and then link a leaner one in the same version, however I feel like having two versions with databases synced read to go will be less time consuming and more easy work flow.

Lastly, a month or so ago, I stumbled on a script for purchase that would analyze your *.Duf file and list out all the scenes data and runtime directory pathway links assigned to it. I forgot to bookmark it and I am not sure if it was here at Daz store or a third party site. On top of that I am not sure what to search for to find it again. If anyone knows where this script is, it would be most appreciated. Thank you Dazer for reading and hope this is a good solution to my problem.

The Blurst of Times

I run 2 Daz installs, one with the Public Beta and one with the General Release channel.

Both of mine point to the same databases, but it shouldn't be hard to configure a lean versus full database.

EDIT: Beta FAQ

Richard Haseltine

This would be handled with two content directory sdets, each with its own database, rather than two versions of DS. You can set them up, and switch between them, in Edit>Preferences>Content tab>click the Content Directory Manager button. Use the Copy button with the Current set highlighted to crate one set, mirroring that in use, then create a new set for the light-version and get it set the way you want, then install content.

jimmyzpop

@ The Blurst of Times and @Richard Haseltine Thank you!