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Help me to move my installation without moving content

john_97a982cejohn_97a982ce Posts: 314
in Daz Studio Discussion

Hi, all. Over a year ago I became fully DIM only and I've been happy ever since. Now, I want to leave my content on the external drive AND move the actual installation from my C drive over to that same external drive. What's motivating me is a fear of losing the installation on my C drive and having to reinstall everything as a result. My Content Library is nearing 3000 and a total reinstallation terrifies me. Please, either point me to a thread that deals with this specialized issue or help me with your own wisdom. 

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,800

    What do you mean by installation? If it's the manifests that tell DIM what it has isntalled just move the folder and tell DIM where it is now in the Advanced Settings.

  • john_97a982cejohn_97a982ce Posts: 314
    edited October 2022

    My Content Library is on my External H Drive. The actual installation is on the C Drive. I want to move the installation so that everything is on the H Drive. See snapshots to see what I mean, please.

    C Drive installation 01.png
    371 x 314 - 9K
    C Drive installation 02.png
    298 x 236 - 4K
    C Drive installation 03.png
    721 x 341 - 19K
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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,800

    So the applications? They can just unisntall and reinstall, that won't affect content or database - however, you would have to reinstall them after a system reisntall anyway. In the AppData folder you can move the database (Edit>Preferences>CMS Settings>Content Cliuster - but note you will have to actually move the databse files to the new location, with no applications running that use the databse) and the temp folder (Edit>Preferences). The erst can only be backed up..

  • john_97a982cejohn_97a982ce Posts: 314

    So, in other words, I can't do it without reinstalling the entire database for content.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,800

    I think we are at cross purposes somewhere - nothing I said above was meant to imply needing to reinstall content.

  • john_97a982cejohn_97a982ce Posts: 314

    OK. So, back to the beginning. I want to reinstall everything shown on the snapshots to the H Drive, where my DAZ content resides. Is there a step-by-step post in forums somewhere that can walk me through the process? I don't want to redownload 3000 content files.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,800
    edited October 2022

    Uninstall and reinstall the applications to move them - just the applications, not the content.

    Use Daz Studio's preferences to change the Temp folder (main tab) and ContentCluster folder (CMS Settings tab), then close everything that uses the CMS, make sure postgreSQL has shut down (don't force quit it) and copy the %appdata%/daz 3d/cms/ContentCluster/ folder to whatever you set as the new location (in place of the ContentCluster folder that will have been created there, which will have an empty database).

    The other files and folders in AppData cannot be relocated.

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  • john_97a982cejohn_97a982ce Posts: 314

    Thank you, Richard, for the step-by-step. It looks like "...folders in AppData" is going to reside on the C Drive regardless of what I do. Perhaps I should be approaching this a different way. What happens if I lose the C Drive and have to reinstall it as a result? At that point, is it possible to do what you've detailed and not have to reinstall content?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,800

    If you are using DIM/Daz Central and have move yoru content and the manifest folders then you will be fine, as long as the reisntall uses the same drive letters for the contnet - jusdt reimport the metadata. That will also restoer any user data you haev exported. If you want to keep the whole database, without having to export userdata, then move the database. Your layouts would be lost unless you backed up the Appdata folder for Studio, and you would probably have to reinstall plugins and reenter your serial numbers even if you moved the aplication (at least some of the third-party ones with more complex activation procedures)

  • john_97a982cejohn_97a982ce Posts: 314

    Thanks, Richard. You're the hardest-working employee DAZ has. I always appreciate your help.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,800

    You're welcome, though I think Daz staff work pretty hard all round.

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