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Removing Old Content

HarbadixHarbadix Posts: 126
in Daz Studio Discussion

It might be a stupid question with an obvious answer I'm just not seeing but is there a quick and easy way to delete content from Daz Studio? I have been collecting stuff for years and I need to trim my content down to save space, remove items I'm not likely to use. The only way that comes to mind of doing that is to manualy look for all the files associated with a product and go into all the directories and manually delete them. This is going to be a very long and tedious job if there isnt a quicker solution.

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,735

    How did you install the products? If you installed with DIM, you can uninstall with DIM. If you installed with Daz Connect, you an uninstall with Daz Connect. If you installed manually by expanding ZIP files and dragging the contents to your library, you probably have to remove them manually by finding and deleting the files. If they don't have a readme to tell you what file are contained in the product and where they are installed, you might have a hard time finding everything.  That's a real good reason to use DIM in the future.

  • HarbadixHarbadix Posts: 126

    Sigh....I thought that was going to be the answer, looks like I'm gonna be doing it the hard way lol

  • MarcCCTxMarcCCTx Posts: 926
    edited October 2020

    Try this method use content manager to install to the same place you manually installed, then uninstall. You can set multiple install locations with IM. Make sure you tell it to earase the install files, 

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,598
    MarcCCTx said:

    Try this method use content manager to install to the same place you manually installed, then uninstall. You can set multiple install locations with IM. Make sure you tell it to earase the install files, 

    This won't work unless you do these extra steps:

    To uninstall a product using DIM that was manually installed:

    1)  Install the product again with DIM

    2)  In DIM, go to Settings > Advanced Settings > Installation; at the bottom is a list of your content folders and their paths.

    3)  Right-click on the content folder path you used and choose "Fix Installed File Registry".

    4)  Now uninstall the product with DIM,

    Notes:  The reason you need to do it this way is because if DIM finds a file that already exists when it tries to install it, DIM assumes it's from another product that uses the same file.  It creates a file named "InstallManagerFileRegister.json" in that content folder listing all the files that are installed by multiple products and the number of products that need each file, so when you uninstall one product it knows there are other products that need the file.  "Fix Installed File Registry" rewrites that .json file using only the information in the ManifestFiles .dsx files, so it won't count files that were installed manually as a separate product.  There will be a bunch of error messages in the log which you can ignore -- since it only applies to content, ,dsx files for software and plugins get written to the log as errors.

     

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,971
    edited October 2020
    Harbadix said:

    Sigh....I thought that was going to be the answer, looks like I'm gonna be doing it the hard way lol

    If you still have the zips for the installed products and haven't moved any files after installation I have a WIP tool (windows) which can do it.  Currently it's by selecting one zip file at a time from a list but it's still a lot faster than manual uninstall.  

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  • KeironKeiron Posts: 413

    Hi

    I have removed around 1500 files I didn't need some were from renderosity and some from daz

    If you have installed them from DIM then I used wild cards to find them

    Ie in the search type say "Victoria" and you should see most of those check through them as some you might not wish to remove

    here are some of the wild cards i used

    v2

    v3

    v4

    v5

    v6

    v7

    v8

    micheal

    david

    victoria

    genesis

    genesis 2

    genesis 3

    legacy

     

     

  • JethalJethal Posts: 35

    I have been using daz studion since launch, and poser before that.. i have SO MUCH old useless stuff.. but i dont dare delete anything. With my luck, i'll need it as soon as it's gone.. (500gb worth of stuff)

  • bicc39bicc39 Posts: 589

    Have one or two suggestions but first two  personal questions.

    How many runtime (library) folders is your content spread over.?

    Are they located on C drive and or external drive

    I have 63 runtime folders spread over two external drives.

    I have been collecting for over 16 years Poser/Daz

    99% of files installed maually without Daz Installer

     

     

  • bicc39bicc39 Posts: 589

    Further....Amazon has sales on larger size flash drives.

    You know and I know you will never completelly uninstall a product, there will always be leftovers.

    You know and I know that the day you delete the product, a week later you will need it.

    You know and I know that programs that are sold to manage content don't work.

    Purchase a "good" flash drive from Amazon . "Combine" older runtime folders into one.

    Don't delete/uninstall...... Manage

    Not as much work as uninstalling, cheaper than a product from Daz

     

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