fake file missing
i recently downloaded the hongyu tank top from renderosity. I tried everything to put on the tank top on this character, but it saids these file missing, even though its already in the file. I check these following items:
data/hongyu/hongyu's tanktop for v7/hy_tanktop/tanktop_gen3_29029.dsf
runtime/textures/hongyu/tanktop/hytanktopgr.jpg
runtime/textures/hongyu/tanktop/hytanktoptr.jpg
runtime/textures/hongyu/tanktop/hytanktopv7.jpg
its already there but it still saids its missing. Can someone help me?
Daz 3D is part of 
Connect
DAZ Productions, Inc.
7533 S Center View Ct #4664
West Jordan, UT 84084
Licensing Agreement | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | EULA
© 2025 Daz Productions Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Comments
its already there under content-people-clothing-data-texture
same thing happen i downloaded 3 product from renderosity. the third one is:data/daz 3d/genesis 3/male/morphs/sf-design/tyler/tyler.dsf
runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_arms_1004.jpg
runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_armsb_1004.jpg
runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_armss_1004.jpg
runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_armssss_1004.jpg
runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_eyesb_1007.jpg
runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_eyesd_1007.jpg
runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_face_1001.jpg
runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_faceb_1001.jpg
runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_faces_1001.jpg
runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_facesss_1001.jpg
runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_lashes_1006.jpg
runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_legsb_1003.jpg
runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_legsd_1003.jpg
runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_legss_1003.jpg
runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_legssss_1003.jpg
runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_mouth_1005.jpg
runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_mouthb_1005.jpg
runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_torso_d_1002.jpg
runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_torsob_1002.jpg
runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_torsos_1002.jpg
runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_torsosss_1002.jpg
same ignorant errors i experience. All of these are already in the file and it still saids its missing for whatever reasons please help me out here
Let me start off by saying that one should never take computer error messages too literally. They are often oversimplifications that can be misleading. When DAZ Studio says that files are missing and you check and see that they are not, you need to read the last line of the message, which really indicates what is wrong; "The following files could not be found:". DAZ Studio assumes that if it cannot find them, they must be missing, which means missing from the location where DAZ Studio expects to find them. DAZ Studio does not automatically search your entire hard drive for files that it needs, but relies on the content database to locate files in accordance with the .duf or other DAZ format file instructions. Enough said. Here is the problem:
It is quite common for content from other sites, or even some older content from DAZ, to come packaged with everything within a "content" folder or directory. This is because, for a long time, the main DAZ Studio default content folder or directory was called just that: Content. This changed several times in recent years through various DAZ Studio updates and the main content folder or directory is no longer called "Content". As a consequence, if you simply extract such a .zip archive to your content folder or directory (in your case My Library) then you will be creating duplicate folders with the same names, one that already exists directly under "My Library", and a second one under the "content" subfolder. So you end up with two Runtime folders, two Textures folders, etc. DAZ is looking for the files under My Library\Runtime\Textures, when they are really under My Library\content\Runtime\Textures.
Here is what I would recommend, in two parts:
Step one, address the immediate problem by first closing DAZ Studio, and then opening your file manager interface (either My Computer or Windows Explorer if using Windows). Locate and open the "My Library" folder, then the "content" folder to show all the actual contents there. You seem to have quite a bit of different content located within that "content" folder. Select all the content you find there, and move or drag-and-drop it directly into the My Library folder. You will get multiple pop-ups asking if you want to combine or merge the various folders (Runtime, etc.), and simply answer Yes to each. It may take a few minutes to complete the transfer. Once done, your "content" folder should now be empty and you may delete it. Now re-open DAZ Studio and see if the items now load properly without error messages - they should.
Step two is for future reference. Since it is possible that content may come packaged differently depending upon the source, I and others always recommend creating a temporary folder on your hard drive for the purpose of extracting the contents of such .zip archives so that you may check to see how they were packaged prior to moving them to your content library. If you see that there is a main folder named "content" or anything other than My Library within, open that and find the folders such as Runtime, etc.that you really want and copy or move only them over to your My Library folder. This will prevent your actual content library getting inadvertently messed up.
Hope that explains what has been happening and helps solve your problem.
There is a content/ folder in your search that isn't in the garment's error message. There shouldn't be a My Library/content/runtime it should be My Library/runtime, as far as I can remember.
Correct, the "Content" folder from a zip should not be included in the installed files.
Thanks Richard I'm not near my computer so couldn't check.
i did move everything into run time, i tried to move one file to data and reopen the daz3d. Atleast I got runtime is correct, but I try clicking it i got this:
It is the same problem, you have the data folder inside a content folder. There shouldn't be a content folder under my library. All the folders that are showing under the content folder in your library should just show as being directly under the my library folder.
You also appear to have downloaded files in your library, don't do that. A bit of a correction to what SixDs said; Studio does not rely on the content database to find files, it relies on relative addressing. Relative addressing is where a product contains only a partial path to files, i.e the "runtime/textures/sf-design/tyler for genesis 3 male/tyler_arms_1004.jpg". Studio needs to know the library location, i.e. "C:/Users/Public/Documents/DAZ 3D/My DAZ Studio Library", to append that to the partial path from the product to create the full path. There any number of ways to break the system such as the extra folder in your case or creating nested libraries in the Content Directory Manager, i.e. having both "C:/Users/Public/Documents/DAZ 3D/My DAZ Studio Library" and "C:/Users/Public/Documents/DAZ 3D".