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Managing Content Directories?

DekeDeke Posts: 1,635
edited December 1969 in New Users

I am trying to get my Daz 4.8 working so it shows all my content and not a bunch of exclamation marks. I ran a "search hard drives for files" and it came up saying I have ten or more content directories and that I should delete unused ones and consolidate runtime files. Any ideas on how to do this? Content Dirctory Manager shows two Daz Studio Formats the main drive My Library and the secondary drive's My Daz Library where I keep all content. In "Poser Formats" there are a longer list of items, many in a downloads folder. That is probably the problem. Should I just delete all those?

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  • IceCrMnIceCrMn Posts: 2,147
    edited June 2015

    the "Poser Formats" settings should be the same as the ones for Studio.A large amount of content needs both to work properly.After you make both the same,,re-import your metadata and see if that helps.

    EDIT: to answer your question :) yes,, you can remove those paths found with the hard drive search,using those can make things a bit complicated to manage.From your post I think all you will need are the "Daz Studio Formats" and "Poser Formats" settings the same locations.So on yours it looks like you only need the main drive My Library and the secondary drive My Daz Library set for both formats.

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  • DekeDeke Posts: 1,635
    edited December 1969

    I've found one problem was that I never adjusted the content directory in 4.8. It went to the default of the main drive in a users/shared folder. I've found that I can uninstall items put into that folder in DIM and then re-install to the secondary content drive. Now I need a way to make 4.8 search that correct directory. I assume that simply by adding it to the Content Directory Manager. I've made these changes and reimported meta data, but i'm still seeing a bunch of products as exclamation points. Any ideas?

  • IceCrMnIceCrMn Posts: 2,147
    edited June 2015

    Yes, adding it to the CDM and reimporting the metadata should make Studio find them.You may have to restart Studio to see the changes,but it should have found those folders.

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  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,313
    edited June 2015

    If you are installing your content with DIM then you can go to your installed tab, select all, Rt click, select re-import metadata. Make sure DAZ Studio is closed when your doing it with DIM

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