Storage space

tsgtkerr

I wanted to check with the experts.  I think I may be storing my content redundantly in two locations.  I normally use the smart content manager to download my content, but I do us DIM from time to time.  DAZ is consuming about 500 gig on my hard drive.  Can you look at my settings and tell me if I am installing the same content in two different locations.  Is it safe to move all my content to my user profile and take all of it out of the public profile.  No one else uses this computer anyways - there shouldn't be a need for storing conent in the 'public' folder as far as I know.

jestmart

In DIM change the second install path to C:/Users/phill/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Library  or remove it all together.  The path you have there now is meant for Connect installs from with in Studio.  DAZ recommends using the public library as you main content library and using the old user name library as your personal library for the files you create.

tsgtkerr

Thanks Jestmart.  I simply removed that second directory in DIM.

I'm not sure if I am worried about nothing - but if I install a new product using DIM.  Then when I go into smart content, it makes me do a install again.  Is DAZ installing the product twice?

frank0314

Which directory did you remove?

Richard Haseltine

If you install with DIM DS shold see that - there will still be the downward pointing traingle to indicate it can be installed with Connect, but the thumbnail sould eb in colour and the product should be usable. If it isn't working without a Connect isntall then something is blocking DIM from updating the content database, or DS is not seeing the new DS 4.8 entries and converting them to DS 4.9 form. One thing to check is that you aren't closing DS, starting DIM while the CMS iss till shutting down, and so not having a connection for DIM to update the database (check, in the processes tab of Task Manager, that there are several PostgreSQL processes running when DIM is installing).

SpottedKitty

Don't forget that by default, DIM is also doing a sort of "store twice" — it downloads the installers, unpacks the content files and installs them into your content folder. Unless you tell it not to (I think it's a tickbox on the "Downloads" tab) it will also keep the installers just in case you need them again, so that you can uninstall/reinstall if necessary without having to re-download.