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Import user content--how do you do it?

MydsMyds Posts: 106
edited July 2014 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

Before you advise me to use the search tool, please know I've tried the one here and google, and found threads that _almost_ answer my question. It's a really dumb, basic question, and the threads I found seem to take it for granted that it either happens automatically, or there is no need to explain how it's done. Every time DAZ updates or I reinstall it, I lose a lot of custom _product_ groupings from the menu. The Daz stuff has great metadata, of course, and reinstalls fine. But the stuff from Rendo never shows up in the metadata, so I spend hours going through it category and folder wise. creating general product groups that help me find the stuff (e.g. "poses: swordfight," "clothing: pirate"). I then export user data. But when I reinstall, I have to do this all over again. I looked on the content library context menus for a "import user data" command, and didn't see one. I even know where the file lives on my HD, but can't figure out how to re-import it. The answer is most likely stupidly simple, some menu I haven't found yet or the like. Or perhaps that "product" groupings aren't saved when you export. I'm not sure. That's why I asked. Thanks in advance, and sorry if I came off defensive at the start--the first few answer to such a question on most forums will inevitably be "why didn't you use the search feature?"

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,945
    edited December 1969

    User data is a check box at the top of the reimport Metadata dialogue

  • MydsMyds Posts: 106
    edited July 2014

    Just tried that, but to no avail on the "product" groups, so I guess the problem is not as simple as I thought. I remember doing the same procedure with the last release, and thinking "wow, this is terrible, there must be a workaround." I made archive copes of my userdata_1 file outside of the runtime, in folders labeled by date to keep track. But I can't seem to import the one most recently created and not moved, or any of the old backups.

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583
    edited December 1969

    Did you "Export User Data" first?

  • MydsMyds Posts: 106
    edited December 1969

    Yes. I guess I've been trying to export for a while now that way and never succeeded. I wonder if it has something to do with Windows 8. It will say "importing," a loading bar comes up for about 30 seconds, and it stays at zero, then goes away.

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583
    edited December 1969

    DO both exporting user data and re-importing metadata go that fast, or just exporting user data?

  • BC RiceBC Rice Posts: 591
    edited December 1969

    Not sure if this will answer your question, but I don't rely on those folders that DAZ creates. Like, they're there and I use them, but I also install my OWN Runtime library which is the folder where I manually download everything. The DAZ auto installer thingy will put it where it wants to, but I always have my own Runtime library there as well.

    Not sure how to do that in DAZ Studio (I work in Carrara) -- but worst case scenario, just have all of your stuff in a single folder and dump it into the destination folder that DAZ is using to pull your stuff from, ya know?

    Something like that! :)

  • MydsMyds Posts: 106
    edited December 1969

    fixmypcmike said:
    DO both exporting user data and re-importing metadata go that fast, or just exporting user data?

    Thanks to both of you. I'm not losing the original files, so to speak, just their "findability" in DAZ.
    When I export user data, it takes a good three to four minutes. But on import, it stays at 0% for a long time, then closes like it's done.

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