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How to import custom categories from one PC to another with a new installation

tagantagan Posts: 33
in Daz Studio Discussion

Hello, everyone.

I have purchased a new PC. Now, I should install Daz on the new PC, have the content directory point to the old hard drive, but import the custom categories where I have all the model material before genesis 3.
Daz on the old PC is version 4.20, on the new one DAZ 4.21 will be installed with the DAZ Central utility

Daz Studio will be installed on disk C, while the MyLibrary directory is on disk Y (it has always been called that since Daz Studio version 3)

How can I do this?
Should I first export something from the old PC and then re-import it on the new PC?

Thank you, I would like to avoid losing the old categories. It took me years to get them right.

Tagan

Comments

  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,484

    Absolutely. Open the Content DB Maintenance panel and select "Export User Data". One or more "UserData_nn.dsx" files will be saved in the Runtime/Support folder (i.e., all the metadata files) of the first Library in your setup (if you have more than one). Copy those files to the same relative location in the library on the new machine. Make sure your paths are properly defined in Studio. On the new machine, open the Content DB Maintenance panel and now "Re-Import Metadata". You will be presented with a list of all known installed products and the User Data. You will probably want to import everything to restore the full database. The "known installed products" comes from the Manifest Archive, which has a record of every installed product. You should copy that folder to the new machine to the same location, too, before re-importing the metadata, if it wasn't on the same disk as the library.

    Some users just copy the entire database, but I have never tried that.

  • tagantagan Posts: 33

    thank you so much

  • tagantagan Posts: 33

    hello.
    how do i get control of Daz Central?
    when dazCentral tries to install daz studio, it does not ask me for anything, neither the installation directory, nor the directory where to put "My Library" nor which products to install.

    How do I do this?
    do i try to install daz studio manually?
    thank you.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,791

    That is the point of Daz Central, it aims to avoid cinfusion by having only the oen path setting. If you want fine-grained cotrnol use Daz Install Manager, which will pick up the central setting but then allow customisation https://www.daz3d.com/get_install_manager/

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