How to Calculate How Much GB DS Uses?

Prince Wao

I have everything in 'Documents: Daz 3D' on my laptop backed up on a remote drive, the size being 29 GB, but I need to find out the total GB usage of Studio, the vaster part of that being in the purchased product installations. In my case it's just over 3000 product packages, but is there a relatively simple way to calculate the total GB usage?

MelanieL

Easy if you use solely DIM for installing - just go to the "Installed" tab and click the box next to "Products" and the status line at the bottom shows the installed total (mine is 1.4 TB!!!) and the package total (if you keep the download files after installing).

I have no idea how to do it in DAZ Central (there may be a way, someone?) - and if you use only Connect then I think everything is installed under the same top-level folder defined in Daz Studio, so you could navigate to that and do "Properties" on it in your file system.

Prince Wao

Thanks MelanieL, but OMG! I'm now in shock! Suddenly realising how much GB the entire program uses (that's the amount in DIM + 29 GB in the Daz 3D folder + the room the program itself takes up) I now know I can't get it all reinstalled on a new PC as I opted for drives without enough room! So I do have to buy a new dirve!

nonesuch00

You can also right click on the Content Library folder(s) and Windows will count & add it up for you. Also for the folder were all your DIM Install files are downloaded too. That would work for the "DAZ Connect" folder location as well. You could do that if DAZ Connect or DAZ Central doesn't give you the sort of summary that DIM does.

Mine is roughly: 500GB installed, 345GB DIM, 845 total.