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Consolidating data folders and getting rid of duplicates

KeryaKerya Posts: 10,943
edited February 2015 in Daz Studio Discussion

Well ... in my data folders there are a lot of duplicates (probably because I am using DS since 1.x ...)
Like
AC-3Story-Rr1_5148
it is in
data
and
data\3_0\AC-3Story-Rr1_5148


or
blAiko3_72712
in
data
data\4_0_2
and in another content folder (which I HAD set up and connected first to DS and is the topmost content folder - so DS should store data there - in principle)
data\auto_adapted

What would happen if I just throw the ingredients in one data folder, overwriting the duplicates?


Edited to add: and I have a lot of
auto_adapted
folders in all of my content folders ...
could I consolidate those?

Post edited by Kerya on

Comments

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,598
    edited December 1969

    The auto-adapted could be combined; the others can't, as the relative path needs to stay the same. If an old scene expects them in Data/3.0, it won't find them in Data/4.0.2.

  • KeryaKerya Posts: 10,943
    edited December 1969

    Hmphz ... Thank you for answering!
    I thought I could free up some harddrive space.

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited December 1969

    The files in subfolders of /data/ are not just the file name — the entire path from the /data/ folder on down is part of the name. The same file in /data/3.0/ and in /data/auto_adapted/ is not the same file, as far as your saved scenes are concerned, because the folder paths are different. You can't consolidate files at that level; all you can do is combine complete /data/ folders, so that the folder path in the original /data/ folder is duplicated in the /data/ folder you're moving the files into. This would eliminate the extra /data/ folder, but it wouldn't eliminate the duplicate files in different /data/ subfolders. You can't do that without creating "orphaned" scene files looking for /data/ files that don't exist any more.

    Note that this is something you must always approach with large dollops of fear and trepidation. The /data/ folder is a scary place, and it's always been the third rail of D|S — if you poke around in there without absolute knowledge of what you're doing, you will break things. Been there, done that, my t-shirt fell apart. :-S

  • KeryaKerya Posts: 10,943
    edited December 1969

    Thanks - I was afraid that this would be the case ... that's why I asked before my t-shirt fell apart.
    (Thanks for the grin about that!)

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