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Removing items from library

synechodus_b7d65b3411synechodus_b7d65b3411 Posts: 125
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My library have become cluttered and bloated to the extent its making a serious dent on my hard drive and I need to slim it down. I especially don't need a lot of V4 and G1 characters, hair and clothes, some of which are very large. After backing thse up just in case, what is the easiest way to delete these (on Mac) as I don't have uninstallers for most of them? Is there an easy way to remove an item and all of the files associated with it? (character, morphs, textures, etc)?. If I delete items directly from the user facing library, does that leave lots of files scattered across the hard drive that I can't easily see without going into the individual folders? 

I often work offline (especially when travelling) so moving everything to external / cloud storage is not suitable for me.

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  • felisfelis Posts: 4,612

    You are recommended to uninstall the same way as you have installed it. Else you might end up with lots of remains, and if the database was updated, data will remain in there.

  • synechodus_b7d65b3411synechodus_b7d65b3411 Posts: 125

    That's what I was dreading to hear- many assets (especially older Daz-Poser crossover ones) have loads of folders spread across many sites. For characters I can sometimes find most of them by searchin g the folders by the character name, but then the problem that the same name is often used multiple times for different characters (If i searched "Claire" I would get loads of files, some wanted, some not).

  • felisfelis Posts: 4,612

    If you can load the items from Daz Studio, then DS must know tha paths to all the libraries, listed in preferences. If you don't have the libraries listed then it is just dead content.

    So first you need to find the libraries.

    If you remove all files belonging to the products, you could clear the database, and then let it rebuild with the content in the libraries it can see.

     

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,291

    If you still have the original zips you can check those to see what files were included, and where.

  • kervalakervala Posts: 186

    I wonder if it exists a DUF parser than list all used files :) It might be useful to create an product uninstaller :)

    When I want to clean a product, I usually uncompress and open the DUF file in Notepad++, search all jpg, png and other DUF files referenced. And then manually delete them :(

    You can also just go to data/Name of the artist and Runtime/Textures/Name of the artist and check what product you're not usin anymore :)

     

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