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Material files in several different folders. Is there any way to automatically put them in one?

Ralf1958Ralf1958 Posts: 688
edited December 1969 in The Commons

Hello! Here I am with a maybe silly question, but Long before understanding how DAZ handles the files, I made a many beginner Projects and I added many Textures from different Folders allover my PC, where my Images were saved at that time. Now, after reinstalling my Computer, I changed the order of many Folders containing Pictures. The result was that all the files needed for the different Projects are missed, of course! It's very time consuming going to look for every single of the hundreds of Images used. I still have a backup of the old System, so my question is, is there any way to tell DAZ to move all those needed files in a specific Folder? Or is there a tool somewhere that does that? Thanks! :-)

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  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited December 1969

    As far as I'm aware, in a situation like that there really is no alternative to re-linking each of the textures as you load each of your old files, then re-save the file. And make sure the folder you're saving into is actually inside your Content Library — this is the only way D|S knows where all your files are, they must be in a folder inside the Content Library folder.

    And of course, the texture files themselves must be in folders inside the /Runtime/Textures/ folder, this is what makes the whole system work. One note of caution, be careful bringing all your texture files together. It makes things easier if you combine all textures for each of your projects into a Textures sub-folder for that project. That way, when one texture is re-linked, generally all the other textures in the same folder will also be re-linked. Saves a bit of time (and torn-out hair) that way.

  • Ralf1958Ralf1958 Posts: 688
    edited December 1969

    SpottedKitty said:
    As far as I'm aware, in a situation like that there really is no alternative to re-linking each of the textures as you load each of your old files, then re-save the file. And make sure the folder you're saving into is actually inside your Content Library — this is the only way D|S knows where all your files are, they must be in a folder inside the Content Library folder.

    And of course, the texture files themselves must be in folders inside the /Runtime/Textures/ folder, this is what makes the whole system work. One note of caution, be careful bringing all your texture files together. It makes things easier if you combine all textures for each of your projects into a Textures sub-folder for that project. That way, when one texture is re-linked, generally all the other textures in the same folder will also be re-linked. Saves a bit of time (and torn-out hair) that way.

    Thanks! :-) I was afraid of this!!! ;-)

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