Older Items Not Installing Properly During Large Installs

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Good day everyone, I am soon to be re-installing my entire Daz library on a new drive. I have done this in the past and it has gone well with one exception. Quite often, the older items (such as generation 3 and 4 ) do not seem to install correctly  as I install everything. I must then go back and re-install those specific items to make them work. I would like to avoid that this time and am wondering if anybody has any ideas what is happening.

To make it more clear, here would be a typical example: I install 4000 items with DIM numbers ranging from 00032 to 81000.. When I start studio, I find half the items with a DIM number less than 16000 are not loaded properly - but a simple re-install corrects the situation.

EDIT: yes I am using DIM. Yes I am using regular DS paths.

Taoz

Do you mean that they first install correctly the second time you try with DIM, or do you install those that fail to install with DIM manually instead?

PerttiA

Why don't you just move your content library from the old drive to the new one and change the drive letter of the new drive to what the old drive used to have?
That way the DIM and/or DS don't even realize that you have a new drive in there.

Unless of course your content library is on C-drive...

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Taoz said:

Do you mean that they first install correctly the second time you try with DIM, or do you install those that fail to install with DIM manually instead?

The second round of installation is also done with DIM and it is then successful. It is an annoyance to have to do as well as time consuming.

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Unless of course your content library is on C-drive...

Multiple things are going on ... but my main objective is to have everything on a single external drive (currently it is split among a few smaller internal drives).

EDIT: the internal drives are also older and have had heavy use - - one failed recently, which is a second of the multiple things going on.