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Using an external content library

SertorialSertorial Posts: 962
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I have all my DAZ and poser content on an external drive. So in the Content DIrectory Manager I pointed it to the following folders:

DAZ Studio formats - x:\DAZ3D\My Library

Poser formats - x:\DAZ3D\My Library\Runtime

however, for the Poser stuff, it doesn't seem to accept a level below "My Library" and in the content manager it still shows the redundant "My Library" level. See screenshot. Why is this?

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  • FeralFeyFeralFey Posts: 3,948

    What do you mean that it doesn't seem to accept a level below "My Library"? I'm looking at your screen shot and I'm seeing that it has "Figures, Expressions, Hair, etc" below the My Library. 

    I have my content all on an external hard drive as well, and I'd like to help. What happens if you click on the "Figures" or any of the other folders under "My Library" in the Poser content folder?

  • SertorialSertorial Posts: 962
    edited January 2017
    FeralFey said:

    What do you mean that it doesn't seem to accept a level below "My Library"? I'm looking at your screen shot and I'm seeing that it has "Figures, Expressions, Hair, etc" below the My Library. 

    I have my content all on an external hard drive as well, and I'd like to help. What happens if you click on the "Figures" or any of the other folders under "My Library" in the Poser content folder?

    No, sorry. I didn't make myself clear. It can see all the content just fine.

    What I am trying to do is to aim directly at the level of the Runtime folder so that I don't see that extra panel "My Library" in the content library. It serves no purpose.

    I assumed that by pointing at the level of folder below "My Library" (ie Runtime) that it would open straight into that. Not sure why it doesn't. Must be a bug

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  • FeralFeyFeralFey Posts: 3,948
    edited January 2017

    No. It's just an organizational thing. Not a bug. Technically the My Library in the DS folder doesn't do anything either. But for the sake of how the developers set up DS, it needs to read that "My Library" folder in order for it to proceed to the lower folders underneath it. (Does that make sense?) I know that they did enough to make DS recognize which were native DS files and which were native Poser files and to put them in their proper locations in the content/smart content/connect tabs.

    But that doesn't get rid of the extra "space" created by the My Library folder in the Poser content. And I understand that sometimes people don't like that look of "disorganization". (Myself included.)

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  • SertorialSertorial Posts: 962
    edited January 2017

    really? I totally get the logic of separating DAZ and poser content, but that is done on the far left hand panel. Surely you could then just have the next panel be the actual good stuff, rather than having to scroll right again, past a pointless, empty division.

    Oh well.. just looks silly to me. I like neat and tidy. I want it to look like this

    (yeah.. I need to get out more)

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 107,953
    Sertorial said:

    really? I totally get the logic of separating DAZ and poser content, but that is done on the far left hand panel. Surely you could then just have the next panel be the actual good stuff, rather than having to scroll right again, past a pointless, empty division.

    Oh well.. just looks silly to me. I like neat and tidy. I want it to look like this

    (yeah.. I need to get out more)

    That would work with one directory, but not with two or more.

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    Sertorial said:
    DAZ Studio formats - x:\DAZ3D\My Library

    Poser formats - x:\DAZ3D\My Library\Runtime

    There's your problem — you must never point to the actual Poser Runtime folder, only to the folder containing the Runtime folder. Yes, this means the D|S and Poser settings are identical; it's supposed to be that way.

  • SertorialSertorial Posts: 962
    edited January 2017
    Richard Haseltine said:
    Sertorial said:

    That would work with one directory, but not with two or more.

    You mean if I only had either DAZ content or Poser content, but not both?

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 107,953
    Sertorial said:
    Richard Haseltine said:
    Sertorial said:

    That would work with one directory, but not with two or more.

    You mean if I only had either DAZ content or Poser content, but not both?

    No, I meant if you had two (or more) Poser Format content directories.

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