Migrating library to Connect, need to remove duplicate files.

TesseractSpace

I'm trying to migrate my library to Connect, but the part where it moves over the old DIM version seems hit or miss and is leaving behind a lot of files and redownloading items it should already have. For some reason, DIM is not removing these files when I uninstall the product. Is there any automated way to remove the duplicate files from my old DIM based library without erasing the whole thing? Like a script that looks through the cloud item folders and the other library and removes duplicate files? Otherwise I seem to be stuck going by hand and deleting them as I check them against the cloud directory.

Greybro

Same issue here BTW.

TesseractSpace

Wish I knew of a way to script something that would look through the cloud folder, get the details from each of the separate product folders, and eliminate the matching file sets from my old library. Doing it by hand is getting tedious, thankfully each of those product folders has that directory structure in it so I can do it by hand.

Richard Haseltine

If the DIM installed file is nopt compressed it will not be used by Connect even if the contents match. The Window>Panes(Tabs)>Batch Convert tool can be used to help with this.

Richard Haseltine

If the DIM installed file is nopt compressed it will not be used by Connect even if the contents match. The Window>Panes(Tabs)>Batch Convert tool can be used to help with this.

TesseractSpace

Richard Haseltine said:

If the DIM installed file is nopt compressed it will not be used by Connect even if the contents match. The Window>Panes(Tabs)>Batch Convert tool can be used to help with this.

Actually past that part and just trying to recover disk space since so much was left behind and DIM isn't removing it either. I've got content from other sites in there so simply wiping the old library isn't an option.

TesseractSpace

So after finding a duplicate file tool, setting it to look for duplicate folders and weeding out a handful that were duplicates within the old library instead of duplicates of the folders in the connect library... About 45gb of duplication. Cleared now.

winddancer6440

Update the DIM

Now if your looking in Daz/install manager/downloads , yes the files will still be there unless they will still be there even if you un installed.

They should only go away if you mark delete files when you uninstall and you DO NOT want to do that.

If you have old files that you want in but they wont install using DIM , manually put them in.

to do this you have to unpack files in another location and move the base files in thier proper place. This takes time, you can't just drop runtime in the runtime file ect. You have to open them untill something new is in the file other than waht is in Daz content, IE: DAZ = Runtime/Textures/Silver/ oppesed to your file Runtime/Textures/Silver/person??? , you have to place the person??? into the silver file in DAZ = Runtime/Textures/Silver.

And Or go to the content tab on the right of daz, then the drop down and select "Scan known directories " and do a scan. if the new stuff shows up you have to close and open daz for them to work. It can take a while if you have alot of files.

I hope this helped in anyway.

TesseractSpace

winddancer6440 said:

Update the DIM

Now if your looking in Daz/install manager/downloads , yes the files will still be there unless they will still be there even if you un installed.

They should only go away if you mark delete files when you uninstall and you DO NOT want to do that.

If you have old files that you want in but they wont install using DIM , manually put them in.

to do this you have to unpack files in another location and move the base files in thier proper place. This takes time, you can't just drop runtime in the runtime file ect. You have to open them untill something new is in the file other than waht is in Daz content, IE: DAZ = Runtime/Textures/Silver/ oppesed to your file Runtime/Textures/Silver/person??? , you have to place the person??? into the silver file in DAZ = Runtime/Textures/Silver.

And Or go to the content tab on the right of daz, then the drop down and select "Scan known directories " and do a scan. if the new stuff shows up you have to close and open daz for them to work. It can take a while if you have alot of files.

I hope this helped in anyway.

I don't have the space to keep the installers anyhow. I had it auto-delete those. What I'm having trouble with is that the DIM is not uninstalling the packages completely.

fixmypcmike

TesseractSpace said:

winddancer6440 said:

Update the DIM

Now if your looking in Daz/install manager/downloads , yes the files will still be there unless they will still be there even if you un installed.

They should only go away if you mark delete files when you uninstall and you DO NOT want to do that.

If you have old files that you want in but they wont install using DIM , manually put them in.

to do this you have to unpack files in another location and move the base files in thier proper place. This takes time, you can't just drop runtime in the runtime file ect. You have to open them untill something new is in the file other than waht is in Daz content, IE: DAZ = Runtime/Textures/Silver/ oppesed to your file Runtime/Textures/Silver/person??? , you have to place the person??? into the silver file in DAZ = Runtime/Textures/Silver.

And Or go to the content tab on the right of daz, then the drop down and select "Scan known directories " and do a scan. if the new stuff shows up you have to close and open daz for them to work. It can take a while if you have alot of files.

I hope this helped in anyway.

I don't have the space to keep the installers anyhow. I had it auto-delete those. What I'm having trouble with is that the DIM is not uninstalling the packages completely.

Did you move the files or the whole content folder after installing with DIM?  Please report this if DIM isn't removing the files when it uninstalls.

TesseractSpace

Moved the whole content library from one PC to another a while back but the directory structure and drive letter would be the same. Also ended up reinstalling about 80% - 90% of it to fix a metadata issue. Thing is, since I ended up doing a mass wipe to get rid of the junk, I'd say 50% of it failed to uninstall, but I don't know exactly which products. (Well, one was Urban Sprawl 2, which I know was reinstalled after the move to this machine.)

 

Besides, isn't DIM on the way out anyhow? That's the point of Connect after all. (Never mind the DRM issue that keeps getting conflated with connect. I'm at least aware it's an entirely separate matter that just happened to be imposed at the same time Connect came out. Pity too, makes Connect look bad instead of the very useful tool it is. Truly hoping they ditch DRM and keep Connect.)

fixmypcmike

There are still things Connect can't install, so DIM will still be around for awhile.

TesseractSpace

Sadly too late now to build a proper report, given that things happened in stages separated by weeks.

frank1982

I have recently used a program called Duplicate Files Deleter & i am so happy with the results that this particular program does. I have more than 50 GB of duplicate files in my computer and i was going crazy with the hard disk space that was being consumed and thanks to the "Duplicate Files Deleter" where i don't need to search each & every file to delete. Duplicate Files Deleter did the job for me within a very short period of time. So no need to google each problem to remove duplicate & unwanted files, just grab the program called Duplicate Files Deleter.

evelynmagreloj

• Hello Goodday, I use a software called Duplicate Files Deleter, it's very easy to use and after it finds the duplicate files it lets you chose what you want to do with them (copy/delete/move). You can even check network files and you can check multiple paths in the same scan. This helps me alot. I hope you too.