C Drive Full - How to start installing on D Drive?

Timmoth

Howdy, I've had this new computer for a couple of months now and already Daz products have filled my main C drive (256Gb SSD) and DIM can't install anything else (which is how I found out) - except I also have a 4TB D drive in my computer aswell...!

How do I get Daz to start installing things there and using them properly? Please... :)

Do I have to uninstall Daz and relocate it to D drive? Just the program or the whole lot oif installed files too?

How do I do that, if anyone knows, please?

Leana

How do you install your content, with DIM, Connect, manually ?

Timmoth

I use DIM mostly.

Leana

OK. So you need to do 2 things to install new content to a new path and enable DS to use it:

1) add your new install path in DIM, and set it as the current install path

See here for instructions on how to configure install path in DIM: https://helpdaz.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/204120203-Choosing-a-path-for-content-with-Install-Manager

2) add that new path as a content directory in DS:

In DS go to edit > preferences > content library > content directory manager, and for the content set you use (probably called "current directories") add the new install path in "Poser formats" and "DS formats"

Timmoth

Thank you muchly Leana! That works, step 2 is what I was missing. I'm very grateful, now I can go on filling my hard drive... lol

I think I might (eventually) uninstall a bunch of products from C and reinstall on D, but leave Studio itself on C...

 

 

SpottedKitty

Don't forget, DIM is also storing the downloaded .zip installers in your C: drive (unless you tell it not to). This might still be adding to the load on your SSD and eventually overload it — a few others here have been caught out like that over the years. Look for the setting in DIM that tells it where it stores these downloads, and change it to somewhere on your D: drive. I think there are a couple more steps to tidy things up properly, but as I don't use DIM myself, I keep forgetting what these are.

CO3DR

On Windows 7 and beyond, you can set up an empty directory to point to a disk partition or rather "Assign a mount point folder path to a drive".

I've been using it and it works pretty well, but because directories are hierarchal and at least how DIM works, there are some surprises. If you run out of space on one of these drives, you'll get weird error messages in the DIM log file that look like things can't be installed or permissions can't be set (the usuall running out of disk space errors), but when you go look at your C drive, it probably won't be out of space. So, if that doesn't explain the errors, you have to remember to open Disk Management and look there to see if any of your content partitions have filled up. So, checking "Properties" on your C drive is how that PARTITION is doing, not a report on all the partitions assigned to a mount point somewhere on C.

The other hitch is that I wanted my DIM zip files (as well as ZIPs from other sources) to be on one of these partitions. So, the "Downloads" directory is not a good mount point, and even it's parent "InstallManager" is not a good mount point. On my drive, "Install Manager" has the parent directory "DAZ" but I don't use that for other purchased content, so the mount point folder is one directory above THAT, which ends up being a sibling directory of that install path for most of my content, But these siblings each have different mount points, rather than have their parent be the mount point.

Why? Well aside from having to have a humongous drive that you might want to split anyway, I figured the zip files are kind of used once, and really I'm just archiving them in case of crash. But, the installed files I want to have on a partition on an SSD if I can.

I also had one experience that I don't remember what all the steps to reproduce it were, but at one point, my mount point got broken and new content was just being installed to the C drive again - where it should be, but on the C partition. Let's say "stuff" was the directory name. When you would look at "stuff" only the NEW stuff was there. All your old "stuff" was gone (but was actually just sitting on a partition that now had no mount point or drive letter. So, this recovery is probably obvious but here it is: rename "stuff" to "stuff.new", make a new "stuff" directory, go to Disk Management and assign it's mount point to the orphaned partition, copy everything in "stuff.new" to "stuff" and delete "stuff.new". It will actually be a copy and not a move because the content is moving from one media to another.

I wish I had known about mount points before I moved my User directories from C to D! Now that's hard to maintain, and I don't even know how to undo it,,,

RubyMoon3d

I'm dying here guys. This is day 5 of a battle to try to get daz working on D drive. It continiously just erases my install files, everytime I open DIM I have to redownload everything and reinstall. I am close to giving up. I have submitted a ticket and still I cannot get this to work. I have all the directories correct from what I can tell. Daz really needs to make this more user friendly to install onto D drive because its a very heavy program and most computers these days come with a boot drive (c) which has created a nightmare for me. I HATE this boot drive thing, I can't get my programs to work properly after days and days of fighting with it. I just don't know what to do anymore. I have A LOT of money in products, or I would just give up on daz :(

Leana

So you're installing your content with DIM? Where do you install on D: drive?