Backup Categories
Joe Cotter
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How do you backup your categories?
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Open the Content Library option menu (the lined/hamburger button in the top corner, or right-click the tab) and select Content DB Maintenance, check Export Userdata. This will create userdata .dsx files in /Runtime/Support/ in the first mapped Daz Studio Format content directory, from whence they can be backed up like any other files.
I have tried this multiple times. I get no warnings, it just silently fails. The only files I have in the runtime\support folder are: Default Resources, Genesis 8 Starter Essentials and dforce Starter Essentials.
I even tried changing the account type to an admin account (a definate security issue) temporarily since the system won't let me run DAZ with elevated permissions, but no luck... still no backup. This is an issue since I have put considerable time into the categories section and it would be a serious problem if I lost the data.
Was looking in the wrong runtime\support folder. To be specific in case anyone else runs into this, there is a runtime\support folder in the location where the content is stored and there is one under "my documents." I actually researched this and came up with multiple links that all said to go to said folder but none mentioned there were 2, much less which one to go to. It pays to be clear. Thank you for the time and attention to this Richard.
That should have been the first Daz Studio Format content directory - you see the order in Content Directory Manager (also available from the Content Library oprtion menu) for one.