Cleaning my library

TesseractSpace

Alrighty... So it looks like I've got another fun time ahead of reloading my library on my Connect installed laptop.  Given that in order to test fixes for issues I may end up having to do this more than once I've come to an uncomfortable conclusion.  Unless I can find a better way, some of my product library has to go.

Right now the only thing stopping me from just telling it to download everything is that there's a fair portion of my library I don't want to download. Either it's old content from the V2/M2 era that I'm just not using right now, or it's things like expansions and textures where I don't have the base they go to, grabbed either by mistake or when they were free. (Some I don't think I can even get the bases anymore. Was never as good with backing up freebies as I was paid content and I've got things like a pose set for D-Bot, a daz freebie lost to the mists of antiquity.)  

However this means having to skip around a lot when selecting items, and doing that over and over gets old quick. (Doesn't help that some items are really hard to peg. I've got a few texture sets where the product title is just a person's name with no indication of what product it's meant to work with.)

I'm posting to see if there are any viable alternatives since at least so far there's no way to make Connect just look at what already has files downloaded. (Thank goodness I don't have to fully redownload what I want in my library.) At the current time the only real solution I see is to comb through my product library, note all items that I don't want and just ask DAZ to remove them from my history. (and to keep thread from going awry, this wouldn't be returning items for a refund, it'd be asking them to be trashed off my account, leaving me to buy them again if I ever do want them. While it might be easy enough to buy the base items in some cases, that'd get expensive really quick.) I thought of just asking for them to remove anything I didn't have required products for, but there's a couple where I beta tested the base product and was allowed to keep a copy.

barbult

You could sort by Order Date or Product ID in Smart Content and let it put your old generation 2 and 3 stuff at the end of the list where you could ignore them. You'd still have to manually skip over textures you don't have the base for, etc. Or you could start with an empty database (reset) and load a figure that you do want to use (e.g. Genesis 3 Female) and then check Filter by Context. That will only show products that are compatible with the loaded and selected figure. Then you can install those products. If you don't do this with generation 2 or 3, you wouldn't be installing those products.

These aren't perfect solutions, but they may be food for thought that will get you close to a scheme that will work for you.

TesseractSpace

barbult said:

You could sort by Order Date or Product ID in Smart Content and let it put your old generation 2 and 3 stuff at the end of the list where you could ignore them. You'd still have to manually skip over textures you don't have the base for, etc. Or you could start with an empty database (reset) and load a figure that you do want to use (e.g. Genesis 3 Female) and then check Filter by Context. That will only show products that are compatible with the loaded and selected figure. Then you can install those products. If you don't do this with generation 2 or 3, you wouldn't be installing those products.

These aren't perfect solutions, but they may be food for thought that will get you close to a scheme that will work for you.

Considered those, but the compatibility check in the database gets sloppy around V4 and earlier and I want my Aiko 3 stuff. I can sift out the really old things by age, but it's the things where I've got texture sets scattered through my order history and product numbers that has me stymied and considering just having DAZ remove my licenses for them.

TesseractSpace

Guessing there is no alternative to just removing the parts of my library I'm not using?