How large are your Daz Studio folders?
Chenova
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In total, over the years of buying Daz assets, and assets from other sites, how large is your Daz library? I feel like mine is excessively large. 
Daz Studio main folder (including current renders / custom textures etc) = 1.07 TB (Please tell me I'm not alone in this???)
My Daz 3D Library (installs from Daz and external sources I think) = 640 GB (approx)
I think my mistake is holding onto a lot of assets because I feel like I might need them one day, even if I never really use them - or worse, have never used them. So guys, what's your folder stats / experiences with managing storage? (I think it's about time I deal with this) 
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One terabyte is a good start
, I think the biggest ones are ten times bigger if not more.
I think that is the main issue with a lot of Daz Studio / Poser users is: Having lots of content for hypothetical projects or ideas.
I think it's normal and I have plenty of content I buy that I never use and will probably never use in my life.
There's nothing wrong with that, since sometimes I will go back to previous projects from years ago too; remaking, updating, and/or replacing.
The main thing you should be doing is backing up important content in case of a harddisk failure.
Yeah I often go back and look at old projects, see if I can make them better. I noticed though that one of my hair products (unfortunately one I sometimes use) is 4GB by itself. And yes, I do need to prepare for any harddisk failures - better safe than sorry right?
It can get tricky comparing the folder sizes from new users to older users. The map files were so much smaller many years ago (well .... so was everything else). My entire collection for Generations 1-7 take about 3.5 T. My collection for generation 8 and 8.1 is another 3 T and I do not feel like I have that much of it. By sheer number of owned items you can tell that I have many times the number of items in the older generations than the new, but individually they take up so much less space. So, old timers with a huge library is still more impressive than a new person with the same size.
Oh, and despite my file sizes, I know of more than a few on this forum that have collected more than I ... though I do not know how many have crossed the 10T club line.
i'm glad to know i'm not alone, i did feel a bit guilty about buying stuff 'just in case' that i haven't even looked at yet, or that i bought just to e.g. study a certain shader the PA used, or see how they modeled a certain feature.
760gb and climbing.
my DS runs like a slug as it rebuilds the folder DB/directory every time i open one.
My entire Daz folder is 2.46TB, but that includes all my DIM install zips, so my actual content is going to be something north of half that total.
My folder sizes are about 15mm, but I have screen scaling on.
I have about 1.7TB of stuff including installers for apps and content going back to Poser 4. Also my own runtimes and all the poser ones up to now and all the images and such that I've created over the last 20 years or so. Also some cat photos. Probably too many cat photos. Want to see a cat photo?
I've got Vista pro on CD and Imagine 2.0 on floppies. Got some really old DAZ stuff on 3D World cover disks.
Modern stuff is installed on the system drive via DAZ Central, dunno how much, probably a few hundred gigs. I'm currently only buying G8 stuff or props and environments with Iray shaders. And only then if it's on a big discount and it's going to get used repeatedly.
So probably about 2TB of stuff over the last 30 years.
What how dare you? It’s big enough.
Anyway it’s what you do with it and skill in using it.
OPPPPS! I think maybe I have got my web forums confused here.
I have a 3tb drive... with daz data installed in a custom set of folders.. people, clothes, hair, etc etc about 50 of them.. then use the content directory manager to put them in the program as directories ... they make up the first column in my content library and then the next columns look just like a regular install.
My daz 3d library is morphs and utilities, scripts etc.
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with DIM you can tell it what folder you want it to install something in. some extra time up front... but lose smart content etc... my data hard drive and it's folders are my sorted data ... it's not a list or a table .. the actual data. (and back up the external data drive .. then if you G or whatever drive your data is on dies, you put the dup dirve in the system and give it the same drive ID as the one that were using and alll the links are there..
currently the C my daz is only 20/30 tb there are some directories on E but most are the 2tb drive G.
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OMG, I am "only" at 600GB and I am already having trouble finding stuff.
Well folks, I have 256 GB in my Daz 3D Library and I am happy with that but it continues to grow. I continually weed out things I do not like or use. Good hair props and materials is what really adds up.
I have a high end PC with a RTX3070 ti so it's never really slow....