Hard Drive Swap

john_9bea886c

Hello All. This is my first post, so apologies in advance for it being a question, and thanks in advance for any help!

I have my OS installed on a primary SSD for speed, but all my apps (including DAZ3D) and data installed on a secondary HDD. I back up my data periodically to a third portable USB drive. 

I am about to replace the secondary HDD due to age, and I'm taking the opportunity to upgrade to Windows 10 Professional while I'm there.

Last time I upgraded my primary SSD I did a clean Windows 7 install and reinstalled all programs. Most, such as my Steam library and Armoured Warfare, were detected by the new installs, thus saving me GBs worth of downloads. When I did a clean install of DAZ however, it did not recognise the files on the HDD - even though they were all there. I played around with Install Manager file location settings, but could not get it to identify the existing files and install them. I had to download them all from scratch.

Can anyone advise if they've done a re-install and preserved already-downloaded material and had DAZ recognise and filter correctly?

Thanks again.

kenshaw011267

Yes. It was very painless. I'm not sure what went wrong for you.

Richard Haseltine

Install Manager tracks what is isntalled by the Manifests folder - by default in Public Documents/Daz Install Manager/Manifests though you can move it in Settings. You will also want to back up the Content Management Service database - by default that is in %AppData%/Daz 3d/cms/ContentCluster/ though it can be chnaged in DS, in Edit>Prefrences>CMS Settings; you should make sure no CMS aware application are runing when backing it up.

FSMCDesigns

Richard Haseltine said:

Install Manager tracks what is isntalled by the Manifests folder - by default in Public Documents/Daz Install Manager/Manifests though you can move it in Settings. You will also want to back up the Content Management Service database - by default that is in %AppData%/Daz 3d/cms/ContentCluster/ though it can be chnaged in DS, in Edit>Prefrences>CMS Settings; you should make sure no CMS aware application are runing when backing it up.

Wish I had known this before I used DIM for the first time. Not having DS find any files in my old saved scenes is a huge pain. I tried copying my files in the public documents folder over to the old directoty in my deocuments and it still didn't see content from older saved files. If I uninstall the current files in the public documents section with DIM and change the path in DIM and reinstall, you think it will make a difference?

Richard Haseltine

Are you sure the paths match? In any event, you can update the path in DIM then select all the installed content, right-click, and reinstall using the current path (instead of uninstalling and reinstalling in two steps).

john_9bea886c

Thanks for the comments, I'll try some of these when I do the rebuild and let you know.