Migrating DAZ Studio assets from an existing drive to a new external drive

Phantom11

Hey all, I'm hoping someone can help me with this, since I'm the type who will try it on my own and royally mess it up.  So, what I'm looking to do is move all my Environment assets from their existing location on an internal drive, to a new external drive.  I'm running out of space on my existing internal drive.  Can anyone give me a step by step rundown of how to go about this?  Thanks.

Richard Haseltine

How do you install your content?

Phantom11

I usually use DAZ Central for items I buy on the DAZ website, but I do manual installs for all other content. 

felis

Are your manual installed items in the same library as that from Daz Central?

 

Essentially you can copy (move) your libraries to a new location, and then edit the library path in Daz Studio Edit > Preferences > Content > Content Directory Manager.

Then it should work in Daz Studio.

 

But to get new installation to get to your new location, you must change it in your installer. I don't know if you in Daz Central can set a custom path. In DIM you can.

And to get Daz Central / DIM to know where the current content is installed, it uses the manifest files. So it would be best to update the paths in all the manifest files to the new path. Notepad++ can help with that.

Phantom11

Okay; I think I understand.  I just re-installed DIM to make sure I have a current version.  The only thing I'm not sure about are the "manifest files"; as in where they can be accessed...

Richard Haseltine

The manifest files will be in the folder set in the Install Manager advanced settings.

Phantom11

Thanks, guys.  I'll give it a shot!

RKane_1

Will this method preserve your Conent Library Folders? I have spent a lot of time on them and would hate to lose the structure I have spent so long to create.