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Installed all content to the wrong drive, need to move it.

Questionable SanityQuestionable Sanity Posts: 35
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I have a dual-boot system, with C: as my boot drive (SSD), and D: as my storage drive (HDD). I installed all my content to my new computer, only to realize after I was done that I made a mistake and put everything on my boot disk instead of my storage disk. I tried simply moving all the files out of the boot disk and into the storage disk, but that made Daz Studio unable to find any of my content, and there's apparently no option to have it search for my content in a different location. I could just move it all back, which would fix the immediate issue. However, more importantly, I want to be able to move everything from the boot disk to the storage disk. The easiest way I can think of to do this would be to just do a complete teardown, uninstalling and deleting everything, and just reinstalling everything from scratch. But it seems like the only way to do that would be to go to Daz Central, click the little arrow next to Open for every single piece of content, and click Uninstall. I'd have to do this for hundreds of products, manually.

Please tell me there's a better way. I just want to start from a clean slate.

Comments

  • felisfelis Posts: 4,597

    When moving content, you have to point Daz Studio to the right location. You must set the path in Edit > Preferences > Content > Content Directory Manager.

    For the installation, I only use DIM, and the you can set the installations paths by clicking the gear wheel. For DIM (and Daz Central) it is the manifest files that tells the installer where the content is installed, so if moved the manifest files needs to be updated with the new path. Manifest files is text files and can be mass edited with something like Notepad++

  • Questionable SanityQuestionable Sanity Posts: 35

    After changing the install paths to the correct ones, I manually uninstalled and reinstalled everything into the correct place. It was a real pain in the ass, and I wish there had been a more convenient way.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,150

    In Install Manager, if you kept the zips, you can edit the paths, then select everything in the installed tab, right-click, and use the option to reinstall all selected using current paths

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