Question about external hard drive

babybuick2691

Hello Everyone,

First, let me give a special thanks to  PerttiA and Richard Haseltine, who went above and beyond to assist me with the problem with loading my Genesis 8 and 8.1 female characters.  Now to my issue,  I have Daz3D installed on my C: hard drive with a copy of My Daz3D Library. Because of the years of content I have purchased and downloaded, the hard drive was filling up. But with the help of this forum, I was able to find a solution to fix the problem by using the Content Directory Manager to connect my external hard drive with a copy of My Daz3D Library that I copied before redoing the previous C: drive onto a 6TB external hard drive to my current Daz3D on the C: drive. The solution worked great with Daz3D 4.12 although slow loading sometimes. I upgraded to Daz3D 4.15 to try Filament andGeneis 8.1 characters. I began to have problems such as Genesis 8 and 8.1 female characters not loading.  PerttiA and Richard Haseltine assisted with that issue but I am experiencing major issues. My question is since I have characters and content I no longer use can I remove them from the external drive and would the problems I am having are because the Daz3D is on the C: drive and the other My Daz3D Library is on the external hard drive.

Richard Haseltine

Having content directories on differnt drives is not an issue - I have one drive for content and another for my own work, neither of which are C:. It is possible that having two versions of the same file in two different content directories might cause an issue, but if your D: drive was listed after the C: drive then removing the D: drive would not be expected to help there.

babybuick2691

Richard Haseltine said:

Having content directories on differnt drives is not an issue - I have one drive for content and another for my own work, neither of which are C:. It is possible that having two versions of the same file in two different content directories might cause an issue, but if your D: drive was listed after the C: drive then removing the D: drive would not be expected to help there.

Only the necessary content is installed on the C: drive PostgreSQL and Genesis 8 and 8.1 characters. Everything else is on the D: drive. When I remove the D: drive from the Content Directory Manager, everything moves faster with no lagging when moving around and loading characters. But when the D: drive is connected, it takes longer to load characters and serious lagging when moving.

Richard Haseltine

Removing the directory with all the character and morph sets will certainly speed loading as it vastly reduces the amount of work DS has to do, linking one property to others.