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Arrgh!! Hello again after a long time, and HELP!

scoobysnacker_abd62aa117scoobysnacker_abd62aa117 Posts: 2
edited January 10 in Daz Studio Discussion

Ok, I haven't been active on this site for maybe a decade or longer. I used to be a big hobbyist back in the old days, and have accumulated a ton of old poser resources that aren't around anymore. I greatly enjoyed Daz Studio 3 (ended up having the advanced/paid version), never really warmed up to the DS4 interface. I sustained my build since at least Windows 7, migrated several times up through W11. I thought I had it safely set away on a seperate drive from my Windows drive (I do have it on a seperate drive). 

Here's my problem- my Windows SSD totally died, to the point it wouldn't recognize it. After fighting that awhile, I ended up doing a clean install of Windows on a motherboard SSD, which btw seems to be working fine. But now I can't find my old stored install file, and can't get DS3 to open (missing dzcore.dll, daz-qt-mt.dll, probably more). 

Are all these saved scenes just gone, now? I had painstakingly created a lot which I had become very comfortable with. I do know they used to open with DS4 also, but I just never got comfortable with that... and now I don't think there's another option. Any ideas or help out there?

edited- sheepishly blush, I was able to find my old purchases and was able to download my (very old) program; and my content appears intact. And seeing as my layouts are mucked up- I had spent awhile customizing that layout just to my liking- I suppose I can try to upgrade and adjust the layouts and color scheme/font accordingly. I know initially that was a royal pain to do, to make 4 look similar to 3 in interface. I hope it isn't as bad now. Sorry for the panic, I thought I'd lost 20-something years of content in a blip. 

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  • scoobysnacker_abd62aa117scoobysnacker_abd62aa117 Posts: 2

    Update

    I'm sick. For some reason, maybe a failure of drives, maybe a virus (I don't know, no other indication but this), my runtime folder is gone. It was there yesterday, gone now. I had old backups but nothing recently done, due to laziness on my part. 

    That's stuff that went back to pre- Daz Studio Beta. So many things that aren't available any more, and then so many things I tweaked and adjusted over the years. I just don't have the stomach to deal with that anymore. I used to have it on DVDs, but I'm probably 2-3 pc's past the last time I used a DVD for storage, and I foolishly trusted the drives to maintain integrity. 

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 101,965

    It hasn't simply been moved by accident?

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