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Easiest way to nuke CMS database and start fresh?

kraftwerkdkraftwerkd Posts: 42
edited November 2023 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I recently got the Smart Content database freakout (probably by installing a plugin with Daz still running) and have just spent the last hour trying to troubleshoot with no joy. Fun stuff first:

Win10/AMD 1500X/32GB RAM/RTX3060 12GB DazStudio4.22

So I initially tried to Reset Database and then do the Process Queue and Re-Import procedures. Absolutely nothing changed.

Somewhere between these steps I also deleted the cms json file.

I uninstalled Postgres CMS and Valentina from DIM - when trying to re-install thru DIM, it refused to grab the regular CMS file but downloaded Valentina, so I had to download Postgres CMS exe from the Daz website.

Did all that, re-installed everything, verified the CMS was actually running, hit the Re-Import button to try and fix the database and STILL no joy. It's still all messed up and missing over half my library.

 

Is there a dummy-proof step-by-step method that is actually proven to get back all my friggin Smart Content? This is getting on the level of hardcore tomfoolery and I'm getting real tired of it.

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Comments

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 99,293

    There hasn't been a Valentina installed for some time - I suspect what you had was the utility to convert a Valentina database into a PostgreSQL database, which would have done its job (assuming your system was old enough to even have a Valentina databse) when first "installed" - uninstalling and reisntalling would do nothing useful.

    What exactly is the issue you are having?

  • kraftwerkdkraftwerkd Posts: 42

    Richard Haseltine said:

    There hasn't been a Valentina installed for some time - I suspect what you had was the utility to convert a Valentina database into a PostgreSQL database, which would have done its job (assuming your system was old enough to even have a Valentina databse) when first "installed" - uninstalling and reisntalling would do nothing useful.

    What exactly is the issue you are having?

    Corrupted database I believe. I convert a lot of non-Daz store items into Smart Content, but after looking through my library this morning it seems something went amiss. Over half my smart content is missing - files are still fine.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 99,293

    So soemare still good? If you have reset the database and reimported metadata had you previously exported user data?

  • kraftwerkdkraftwerkd Posts: 42
    edited November 2023

    Richard Haseltine said:

    So soemare still good? If you have reset the database and reimported metadata had you previously exported user data?

     

    Well, don't I feel like a right moron. This thread can be deleted, it took me 2 hours to finally realize I had 'Filter By Context' checked off. That's normally where I start, don't know where my head was at this time. I think it filtering stuff without anything in the scene was throwing me off course. Once I loaded a base G3F I saw the problem immediately.

     

    Smart Content is all good, if anything now it should be cleaned up of any weirdness I had going on. My bad!

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