Reinstalling Files

Whocares509

I have a number of third-party files I've installed in Daz. I had added these files by going to: Edit > Preferences > Content > Content Directory Manager > Daz Studio Formats > Add > And then adding each file individually and gradually over time. A hair prop here, and environment there, and the system worked initially. 

However, over time this left with me an unorganized mess of a list, since the list of installed 3rd-party files was unable to be manually reorganized by dragging and dropping (or in any other fashion, as far as I can tell). Different types of content were all mixed in a list and this made navigating the window nearly impossible (for example, if I wanted to find a particular hair file, I'd need to look through the entire list, item by item, until I found the one I was after. In a list of 200 files, this gets time consuming).

Because this was too much of a pain, I recently reorganized my 3rd Party files into a series of subfolders (one for "Hair" another for "clothing" another for "Environments" and so on). So, on my desktop I have a Daz 3rd Party Content Folder, and within this folder I have my subfolders for each type of content. 

I tried adding this overall directory on my desktop into Daz using the same process as before. This lets me see my new, nicely-organized list of folders that I was looking for within Daz (good), but when I try to load in anything, I keep getting "File Missing" messages (bad). If I follow the previously-used installation process for any individual folder, however, they all work. The files aren't missing, Daz is just unable to figure out where they are. 

Is there some way to get Daz to import all these files so they work at the same time? I feel if I have to reinstall them manually I'll end up with the same problem as before over time

Richard Haseltine

You need to have a top level folder for each separate entry, and the Runtime, Data, and any folders from the same level of the zip go into that (so you want to merge them - this takes care on a Mac but is a simple drag-and-drop on Windows). If the Runtime and Data folders are in a sub-folder within the content directory they won't be found.

Avoid having nested content directories - /props/ and /props/this prop/ both selected as content directories - as that will cause issues down the road.