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DB maintenance..

AlfawulfAlfawulf Posts: 174
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After playing with this program for some time, as you can imagine there's a ton of clutter files in my Libraries!! lol

What's the best way to clean house?? Without pillaging the farm??

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,613

    Do you mean clutter in the database (Smart Content, Categories, Products) or clutter on your hard drive?

  • Ken OBanionKen OBanion Posts: 1,447
    edited May 2016

    Depends on how your content was installed.

    If you used DIM (DAZ Install Manager) to install, there's an 'un-install' feature for each item that DIM installed.  If not..., well, there really is no 'painless' way to 'clean house', as you put it.  You'll probably have to go through the Readme file for each product, locate where they are (which folders), and just start selecting files and pounding away on the 'Delete' key.

    That's actually one of my pet peeves about DAZ Studio -- the content directory's file system is so convoluted, it's downright Byzantine!

    Oh, and it's a good idea to run the 're-import metadata' function in Content DB Maintenance after you're done, to let the CMS know what is no longer there.

     

     

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  • AlfawulfAlfawulf Posts: 174
    Fixmypcmike said:

    Do you mean clutter in the database (Smart Content, Categories, Products) or clutter on your hard drive?

    Database. Sorry

     

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,613

    Are these invalid entries, or duplicates?

  • AlfawulfAlfawulf Posts: 174
    Fixmypcmike said:

    Are these invalid entries, or duplicates?

    Just saves and files that either don't work properly or I want removed.

     

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,613

    Make sure the files they point to are removed, then fromt eh Content Library pane options menu > Scan Knows Directories for Files

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