Moving product libraries for optimal network access

bwise1701

I currently have all my software scene files and product libraries on one machine, an aging mac pro and I have a newer PC with a pascal Titan black and a maxwell titan x. When I use the PC for faster renders it reads scene file and data from the mac disk over the network. I'm upgrading the mac to have a faster 1TB PCie SSD and was thinking it would be faster to move all my program files scene and data files there. Shouldn,t that help performance, load times at least? ( I have multiple figure scenes that can take minutes to load) 

Can I just move the all the applications directories and Libraries? I can add them to the Content Library paths in Daz - is that all there is too it? Any gotchas? And what DIM? Do I need to tell it the next locations for new content installs?

Thanks

 

Richard Haseltine

Space permitting you would probably do better to install the content on the PC, unless your basic network connection is very fast. If the content is faster to load on the Mac than on the PC then it's definitely the network that is your bottleneck.

You can move content, but you need to update the content directory settings in DS (Daz Studio>Preferences>Content tab>Content Directory Manager on the Mac, Edit>Preferences>Content tab>Content Directory Manager on the Windows system). If you installed with DIM you also need to update its paths, by clicking the gear icon to open preferences then going to the Installation tab, but DIM does remember the absolute path of the isntalled content, stored in the .dsx files in the Daz Install Manager>Manifests folder; you can, in preferences, tell it to install updates to the current path instead of the original install path, which should work in most cases (the potential issue is where an update removes a file without replacing it), or you can edit the .dsx files to use the new path.