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Content Database Duplicate Disaster

Zantetsukens-cut Zantetsukens-cut Posts: 31
edited November 2021 in Daz Studio Discussion
OK so my database had its own storage drive but when the drive had about 10GB left I added a new drive and configured The install manager to recognize both content directories and to install to the new one and then configured dazstudio to do the same. and it worked Grate for awhile but now I have alot of duplicate content between both directories including multiple Genesis (123&8) base models. and it had made the already long load time of Genesis 8 even longer and shows the same content multiple times in smart content and content Library
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  • Zantetsukens-cut Zantetsukens-cut Posts: 31
    edited November 2021
    Plus its way to much Content to go through manually. is there an easy way to remove the duplicates and its smart content/content library references?
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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,842

    Duplicated files wouldn't usually, in my limited experience, have a big impact on load times but I'm not entirely following - Smart Content is showing database entries rather than directly showing files on disc.

  • Zantetsukens-cut Zantetsukens-cut Posts: 31
    It shows a single product icon but when I open it there are two of everything in the product. And not ever product is duplicated but it's become enough to make me notice the issue, plus it's a space drain.
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,842

    If it's just database references then it isn't wasting much space. Right-click on each member of some of the pairs and select Browse to File Location - do you go to diffrent files tor the same?

  • thenoobduckythenoobducky Posts: 68
    It might be worthwhile nuking your content database and reimport everything. Its a bit complicated to do it correctly so i will leave it to someone else to provide instructions. Or alternatively uninstall everything usijg DIM and reinstall in a clean folder.
  • DrunkMonkeyProductionsDrunkMonkeyProductions Posts: 984

    Oof, something seriously broke there.

    I tried to replicate this issue, with no success.

    Multiple directories, multi drives, couldn't even get DIM to download or install if i had already installed it, via dim

    Couldn't get Smart content to show multiple versions no matter what i did.

    Deleted out the cms folder, deleted out everything i could find related to it, re-import meta data, and nada.

    I even played around with folder order in CDM.

    And bleep help me, i even tested for the old connect bug.

     

    So, I'm gonna suggest the only solution i can come up with at this point.

    You're going to need to delete out the previous files/folders, manually, as DIM probably doesn't recognize them.

    Be sure to check which of the versions DIM is reporting the files in, then delete the other one out, manually.

    Once that's done, reimport the meta-data and it, should, correct the issue in smart content.

     

    If somebodies got a better suggestion, i'd love to hear it.

     

     

  • Zantetsukens-cut Zantetsukens-cut Posts: 31
    I was thinking that it happen when I ran a reimport Metadata after the new drive was made the primary installation directory. and because I installed the genesis base models to the original directory way before I add the new drive and haven't run a reinstall of them, but if I navigate with windows to the location of Genesis models I find the same files on both drives models, morphs and everything something caused daz to duplicate the files and I'm not sure what. but new installations that were installed to the new drive never find there way to the old drive. But I'm more focused on removing the duplicates.
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