Strange issue with external Runtime on Mac

sandmariners_475cd2a096

Hello everyone!
I'm having a strange issue with daz Studio Pro 4.6 (the latest update), which I'd really appreciate any help solving.

I just bought a new hard drive,and moved my my Daz Library there... the Daz Content transferred smoothly, i did the rebuild database and re-import metadata stuff, and all good there.

Issue comes when trying to read Poser content from the external hard drive.. I point the new runtime to my hard drive, the same location as the Daz Content, and it tells me "this doesn't have a subdirectory called Runtime", when clearly it has it! (please see pic attached).

Whats weird, if that if I point the content manager to My Library in my internal hard drive, it has no problems reading it and accessing it.. it just won't read it from my external.. and it's only the Poser content, Daz Content is all fine.

Any ideas what might be happening? I'd really appreciate to know.. thanks in advance!

arcady

I have the same setup. Make sure you don't have any identically named folders on the internal drive anywhere.

I had one in "/Users/Shared" that was named "My DAZ 3D Library" that completely messed me up.

Of course I moved ALL my content to external. And anywhere it found content on both drives, if I tried to use the external version, it would give errors like this.

Below you can see how I ended up organizing my folders:

sandmariners_475cd2a096

arcady said:

I have the same setup. Make sure you don't have any identically named folders on the internal drive anywhere.

I had one in "/Users/Shared" that was named "My DAZ 3D Library" that completely messed me up.

Of course I moved ALL my content to external. And anywhere it found content on both drives, if I tried to use the external version, it would give errors like this.

Below you can see how I ended up organizing my folders:

I tried deleting the original My Library folder that was on Documents/Daz3D, but it made no difference.. and like I said, daz Studio can read the daz format from the external hard drive with no problems, it's just the Poser content it cannot read... also, i was loading genesis 2, and it told me it couldn't find a texture that was located in the Runtime folder, and asked me to point it to it, which I did, and then it loaded fine..

For some reason, DS4 cannot read the word "runtime" from my external harddrive, but it's ok reading it from the internal one.. like I said, this is very puzzling to me... I'm attaching a pic of my Content Manager directory in case it helps..

sandmariners_475cd2a096

very sad update: now daz Studio won't read ANY Poser format, not even from my internal hard drive.. I uninstalled and re-installed Daz Studio (from the DIM), and no changes...

any ideas?

arcady

Hmmm...

Not sure. Something might be weird on the DIM level - your settings up there didn't look weird to me.

sandmariners_475cd2a096

yeah, no idea what might be happening... I managed to uninstall-reinstall DS4 manually, and luckily, now it reads my local Poser directory, but it still won't read my external runtime.. I'm truly out of ideas for now :/

EDIT: this is what shows up when I try to "harddrive search"... is my external HD supposed to show there, but it doesn't? Like I said before DS4 does read my daz content on the external hard drive, so the software does recognize it, it just won't show it apparently..