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I’ve organized all my items into individual categories.
I did it by right clicking every item and choosing “Categorize…”.

Now I’ve installed DAZ on another computer and I’d like to have the same categories there.
But I really don’t wanna do all the work again.

Is there any chance to export my categories/structure to the other computer?
I couldn’t find any command…

I think you will need to wait for Adamr001 to see your post, I think he is the only one that can answer it for you.

I know that there is a folder called Content Management Service in the Program Files\DAZ 3D folder, which you should probably backup anyway, but whether it can be transferred to another computer without any extra work, I just don’t know.

Adam’s tutorial is here:  http://forumarchive.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=179107
To see the images you need to add “forumarchive.daz3d.com/” in front of the “postimages” text.

thanks for the reply!
But I still can’t solve my problem.
Recording to the tutorial, I have to find a folder called “Content Management Service”.
Unfortunately I can’t find it anywhere…
You should know that I’m using Mac OSX (10.7). Does this make a difference?

fixmypcmike - 13 August 2012 05:42 AM

To see the images you need to add “forumarchive.daz3d.com/” in front of the “postimages” text.

Why don’t you change/correct the links as an admin?

Because someone forgot to issue the Mods with the right Magic wand ?

Adam is actually working on replacing his tutorials, but do give him some time, it is not an easy task, and like all of us on the team he is a volunteer, and does have a RL job as well, a very stressful and demanding one.

Re:Migrating Categories tutorials… If you’re using DS4.x then the pictures in the migration tutorial weren’t really necessary anyway.  If you’re using 3.x, I wasn’t intending on redoing those tutorials as DS3 is more than a year out of date now.

Eh, give me a bit, I’ll redo it

adamr001 - 13 August 2012 07:45 AM

Re:Migrating Categories tutorials…

Are you refering to where you talk about “fix the categories”?
The problem is there are no big yellow exclamation points!
I made a regular install of DAZ. Then I’ve installed every single Item with the related installer (also added all the meta data).

So the migration I’m looking for is not such large as in you tutorial.
Everything already works. All the content is available.
I just want to copy the structure of my categories to the other computer so that i doesn’t have to categorize everything again.
That isn’t such simple as I thought, is it?
(I hoped that I just have to copy some file(s) where the structure is saved)

adamr001 - 13 August 2012 07:45 AM

If you’re using DS4.x then the pictures in the migration tutorial weren’t really necessary anyway.  If you’re using 3.x, I wasn’t intending on redoing those tutorials as DS3 is more than a year out of date now.

I’m using DS 4 64bit on Mac OSX.

adamr001 - 13 August 2012 07:51 AM

Eh, give me a bit, I’ll redo it

What do you mean? What will you redo?

That is covered by my tutorial.  You have to copy the database from the old computer to the new just as if you were doing a complete migration.  The yellow exclamation points only appear if the location of the content has changed.  If you copied things over to an identical path, then you won’t have to do that part of the tutorial.

Here’s the redone tutorial:
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/5639/

adamr001 - 13 August 2012 08:33 AM

That is covered by my tutorial.  You have to copy the database from the old computer to the new just as if you were doing a complete migration.

the problem is I can’t find these files.
in your tutorials you’re talking about this

* Path for Content Management Service
*  * E:\DAZ\Content Management Service
* Path for CMS Databases
*  * E:\DAZ\Content Management Service\databases

But when I go into my Programs-Folder I can’t find these folders… :(

http://img6.imagebanana.com/img/3pf3sfcl/Bildschirmfoto20120813um17.29.16.png

The default location for the installation of the CMS database on OSX is: /Users/[YourUsername]/Documents/DAZ 3D/CMS/databases

As shown here: http://daz.tall-tales-racing.com/resources/tut/basics/B2B_OSX_DS4_install_files/image020.jpg

is it possible to run daz without the CMS?
I’m asking this because I can’t find this folder:

http://img6.imagebanana.com/img/gf61ckjj/Bildschirmfoto20120814um10.06.36.png

unfortunately the installation has been a long time ago, but I’m pretty sure I didn’t choose a custom path during the installation.
even the mac search programm can’t find a folder called ‘CMS’

Do you have any idea of what to do?

*edit*

ok, I’ve found it
it’s ‘Library/DAZ 3D/Content Management Service/databases/’ (excluded from the search?)

now I’ll try copy the content of this folder to the other computer and tell you if it works…

bad news: it didn’t work :(

i copied and replaced all database files.
then I did the same with the mentioned folders of the tutorial (plugins, resources, scripts, service, shaders).
But I still can’t see my individual categories.

Any idea what’s the problem?

Are you seeing any categories?  Did you make sure the CMS service was stopped on both machines when you moved the database files?

yes, I tried again and checked whether the CMS is stopped on both machines.
then I copied again all files from my ‘database’ folder.

But I still can’t see my categories on the other computer… there’s still only the category ‘default’ :(

Then either the database you copied isn’t the right one or you’re copying it to the wrong location on the new computer.

The easiest way to figure this out is to “re-install” DAZ Studio on each machine.  Make sure and do a “custom” installation and to “Customize the CMS install” as well.  During this process, when it gets to the CMS install portion it will fill in the data that shows you where your databases are located.

Just to be certain, you’re going from OSX to OSX and not something like going from Windows to OSX right?