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my library is a mess! objects are in there double, tripple sometimes four times?!?

octobusoctobus Posts: 117
edited December 1969 in New Users

hello... i have use the installmanager to get my stuff in place
for some reasons many objects are in the library more than one time

it´s complex anyway but to see through this mess is difficult..

is there an easy way to get rid of duplicates?

also many many things are not where they should be...

some are poses but they are beeing displayed under presets

as far i understand many users on advanced stage are doing it manually

this makes sense to me... but i don´t feel advanced yet... still to many thing that i have to learn about what is what and where does it belong

thanks for advice
o.

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  • JimmyC_2009JimmyC_2009 Posts: 8,891
    edited December 1969

    It is difficult to see what your problem is without specific details.

    The DIM does not install duplicate items, so any that you have, must have been installed manually. You cannot have duplicated items in the same path. If I install the same item 10 times to the same place, I will still finish up with only one item installed, each new install will overwrite the previous one.

    Please give some specifics as to what duplicated items you have, and where they are installed to. A screenshot of your My DAZ 3D Library might help too?

  • octobusoctobus Posts: 117
    edited December 1969

    thanks... but by magic hand the dups are not to see right now... i will follow up when they are back
    best
    o.

  • srieschsriesch Posts: 4,241
    edited September 2013

    Content may exist in multiple formats, so you might have both DS and Poser versions of the same content, or you might have the older obsolete .daz content along with the newer .duf content that replaces it, or Poser4 and Poser Pro and mc6 versions of the same content. If you know what you want/need and what you don't want, you can get rid of the ones you don't want (I just categorize them into a trash bin folder I made for that purpose.) These files can be identified by the file extension.
    If you don't see the file extensions, click on the Content Library pane's menu icon, then from the menu select "Edit Preferences..." then check "show file extensions".
    You can also categorize the same content thumbnail into multiple folders. If you have done so and want to remove one of those duplicates, right-click on it and select "Remove reference". (There is also an option somewhere that also controls whether or not content is found as if it were new content the next time you search for new content, or just kept hidden, if you remove the last reference to it and have none left.)
    I do have some duplicate content thumbnails I can't get rid of either though, and I don't know why, probably a bug somewhere. Both thumbnails point at the same file, but if I remove one of the references, it just gets moved back to unassigned instead of being deleted, and I can't get rid of it. I have a whole folder full of those duplicate content thumbnails.

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  • octobusoctobus Posts: 117
    edited December 1969

    thank you... very usefull help
    this might solve some of my confusion

    best
    o.

  • srieschsriesch Posts: 4,241
    edited December 1969

    I just found another way that SEEMS to clear up the duplicate content thumbnails I previously couldn't get rid of. I'm not actually sure if this is something I wanted to do or not even after reading the tooltip describing what it did, but I had just made a backup so I decided to press the button and see what happened. If anybody can confirm that this is/isn't the proper solution, let us know!
    What I did was click on the Content Library's menu icon, select "Content DB Maintenance", then check "Consolidate File References" and pressed Accept. None of the duplicates have reappeared yet.
    Based on the tooltip description, I'm assuming the same file had two database entries that weren't actually identical within the database, even though they were pointing at the same file. I don't know how it chooses which to delete, and if the one that got kept was more appropriate to keep or not?

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