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Upgraded to newest version and content now out of order

TreebeardTreebeard Posts: 33
edited December 1969 in Daz Studio Discussion

Hello. Just upgraded to current release of DS from an older version of 4.6 , and when I go to Content Library, the material is no longer in alphabetical order. I've done a lot of googling on this and searching in the forums, but things I've found don't help. How do you tell DS to display, say your scenes, in alphabetical order?

Thanks,

Treebeard

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  • srieschsriesch Posts: 4,241
    edited December 1969

    Any chance exiting and restarting works? I say that only because I occasionally have something in my content library go out of alphabetical order (I think category names) but then later I notice it is back in order without having intentionally made any fixes.

  • TreebeardTreebeard Posts: 33
    edited December 1969

    No Sean, did not make a difference. Thanks.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,291
    edited December 1969

    Are your items listed in order if you browse to the folder with Windows Explorer (or the Mac equivalent)?

  • TreebeardTreebeard Posts: 33
    edited August 2014

    Yes. I'm on a Windows PC running XP Pro. When browsing to a folder using explorer, all material is in alphabetical order as I sort on Filename.

    So just to be clear, two-three days ago, running a slightly older version of DS 4.6, when I viewed my Content Library, viewing folders as TREE, regardless of where I traversed to all content was in alphabetical order. This has been the case since migrating to DS 4 years ago and working fine updating as I went.

    Then after doing nothing more than updating to current/newest version of DS 4.6, content is in what I can only call random order. Not alphabetical, not based on date...

    Thanks,

    Treebeard

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  • MithoronMithoron Posts: 47
    edited December 1969

    Have have this happen every once and a while...what fixes it for me is:

    1. Close Daz
    2. Stop the Content Management Service
    3. Restart the Content Management Service
    4. Re-open Daz

    The content CATEGORIES for me are never in order (Camera, Figures, Props, etc.); however, the content itself typically will display alphabetically after I do the above...this has happened since late 4.5...

  • JimmyC_2009JimmyC_2009 Posts: 8,891
    edited December 1969

    I have heard of this before, and I think it mostly happens with XP for some reason.

    Have you tried changing to another layout in Window > Workspace > Select Layout. From memory, I think that sorted it for some people before.

  • TreebeardTreebeard Posts: 33
    edited December 1969

    Thanks. I'll try both of those this weekend and post the results.

  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,249
    edited December 1969

    4.6.1 alphabetized my content with some special characters in the front of the name at the top
    4.6.2 moved them to the bottom of the content list.

    so "!folder" would be a the top "_folder" would also be at the top then it turned to "_folder" at the top "!folder" at the bottom

    Daz has done this before back in one of the 4.5 incarnations. Possibly related?

  • WilmapWilmap Posts: 2,917
    edited August 2014

    I had that happen to me. I just select the main folder and tell it to Refresh and they get sorted properly.

    Only one that won't sort properly is the Poser Format.

    I'm on Windows 7 Pro

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  • TreebeardTreebeard Posts: 33
    edited December 1969

    Have tried all the above suggestions and no difference.

    Anybody else have an idea?

    Richard, what does DS use/read to base the order on? I can't believe there isn't a way to say how you want the information sorted. What an omission.

  • TreebeardTreebeard Posts: 33
    edited December 1969

    Hmmm. I don't see CMS running.

  • TreebeardTreebeard Posts: 33
    edited December 1969

    So I stopped DS. Then used the manage function by right clicking on My Computer, selected Services, and CMS was not started. It is configured to start automatically. Since I rebooted, shouldn't it be on?

    So I started it. Brought up DS. Now stuff in the DS Formats folder is in order, but not the Poser Formats. That stuff is still in random order (which of course is most of my content)

    Argh.

  • TreebeardTreebeard Posts: 33
    edited December 1969

    Any recommendations so that my Poser content is in order?

    Thanks,

    Treebeard

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