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In Smart Content? Right click and browse tro directory, or any other option there.
Oh very little of my Library is in smart content. We are talking Poser files from years back. Files I cannot live without. I would just like to consolidate my entire library to one place but i am scared I will loose thise older files.
If they are Poser, then in DS you know the location, just hover the item in the Content Library, or look at what path you're at in the content directory.
Cool, thanks I will do that. Do you think I can put my entire Library in one location?
I assume that I just go find all my folders and put them in one place, then go into Daz and jusy choose that big folder containing everthing?
Depends on whether you work more as a lumper or a splitter. I had al my content in one library back at the time of the inadvertant disk wipe, and I could never find anything. When I had to reinstall everything from my backup disk, I split the collection into several of my own categories, and installed things into those by category. It works pretty well for me, since I am a lot more likely to know what category I put something into.
I have to enter each sub-library twice in the content manager, once for Studio and once for Poser content, but it's not nearly so annoying to have to switch between content type entries as it was to go hunting all over the place and no be able to find things.
Also, if you are going to be working *only* in Studio, do youself a favor and consolidate all the library files for any given Poser content into one product folder. I don't know whether Poser really does need al those subfolders in the library or not, but Studio doesn't. You can put the associated add-ons in a subfolder inside the item folder instead of leaving them scattered among the pose, material, camera, lights, and prop folders. 3rd-party add-on textures, too. So long as the Geometry and Texture files are in their proper folders, the Library stuff can be wherever you'll remember it best.
It will take six forevers, but you'll probably be glad you did it.
I still recommend to have several different ones (works best for me anyway), I have one for DAZ stuff, one for "non DAZ" stuff, one for freebees, and several for my own development. All you need to do it to tell DS where they are in the content directory manager.
The reason I wantg to split stuff out is that sometimes, specially non DAZ stuff, and even more freebees, override the original DAZ dsf files (you seen it the forum, "Why does my Gx load with big eyes/feet/whatever?", splitting into different "runtime/content directories", you can easy find "where" the problem is but disabling them (or create Content Directory sets in DS, where you have one set DAZ only, with averything, and so forth, choose a set and then you know where the offending stuff is installed. Always try to make troubleshooting as simple as possible.
Should I clean install DS on the iMac Pro and just point it to the content on my external drive?
As long as the exernal drive is not one with "forced sleep mode" I would say just install the base application files (but have the drive there and tell DIM where it is so DS installer puts the default still in the right place)