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Category Weirdness

Stretch65Stretch65 Posts: 166
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

Hi,

Recently, I was looking at my list of user-defined categories and noticed that one was missing.  It was a category for a set of fabric shaders which are in a folder called "Soft".   I looked up the folder in my library and tried to re-create the category, but for some reason, when I click on the newly created category there's nothing in it - no shader files are showing up.  I can successfully create categories for other folders and their contents show up as expected.   I've tried exiting Daz Studio and re-starting it, but the "Soft" category files still don't appear, and I'm pretty sure the CMS is running, so what the heck is going on??   (see images below)

 

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Comments

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583

    What version of DS?  Valentina CMS or PostgreSQL CMS?

  • Stretch65Stretch65 Posts: 166
    edited February 2016

    Version 4.9; PostgreSQL CMS.  The same problem is occurring on both of my desktop PCs.

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583

    So the files do show up in Content Library > Daz Studio Formats, but when you try to right-click to create a category, the category shows up but is empty?

    What is the file extension of the files?

    Does it make a difference if you name the category something different and put it in a different location?

  • Stretch65Stretch65 Posts: 166

    "... but when you try to right-click to create a category, the category shows up but is empty?"  That's correct.

    Well that's odd.  I renamed the folder from "Soft" to "Softx" and tried again.  Now the category contains the expected files.  I didn't think the folder name made any difference but apparently there some strange exceptions.

    The folder only contains .duf files - each one begins with the prefix "Soft_" followed by a color (e.g. "Soft_black.duf").

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583

    My guess would be that the category that got lost is still in the database somewhere, so when you try to use the same name it interferes with it.  Are you using Daz Connect?

  • Stretch65Stretch65 Posts: 166

    "Are you using Daz Connect?"  - Yes I am, but I can recall having this category problem with previous versions of DAZ Studio.  I can vaguely remember categories that I created in v4.8 which were empty as well.

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583

    Were you using Valentina previously?

  • Stretch65Stretch65 Posts: 166

    "Were you using Valentina previously?" - No, never have.

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