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Hello Kyoto! Yeah been a while. Great to see you too, and hope you are well! I dropped out of the PC quite a while back, and don't buy enough to make that worthwhile in the long run. But I do still buy and use stuff. Every month actually. I remember all the fun in the forums and the SALES! I recall A4 being a big hit, G4 being a BIG hit, then of course M4 finally came out. All the stuff going on with the sales then all of us taking to those special forum threads and carrying on like it was a major football playoff game. Ha!
But too much content? *NEVAH!* :snake:
112 pages(40 items per page) here 2822 items at Rendo 37 pages of 30 at RDNA plus stuff from ShareCG ,TurboSquid, Animium, PhilC, Content Paradise ,Rotica, and several others
Hello Robert! Long time no see man. I give up trying to buy the whole store. Wouldn't want everything anyways right? I do buy what I can of what I want. Then don't worry about whats left. Me and my cats got to eat! I do have 791 items from Renderosity, and just a couple hundred items from DNA. Then there are the freebies from all over too. I had well over 600 gigs in my main runtime. That got whacked right down to under 100 gigs. And now I'm reinstalling all my stuff. Happily all my stuff is backed up in downloaded form on a separate HD and on BluRay disks. All the V4 stuff barely fit three 23 gig disks! ALL my old scene files, the pz3's, they're vaporized. All my saved .cr2 figures are gone now too. Those totaled around 400 of that 600+ gigs. Oh well, that's life! :o)
At 149 pages at Daz and 544 items at Rendo I'm nowhere near some people here. I have been buying since the days of Victoria 1 (was this place called Daz then?, I think they may have had a different name).
I soon realised I had to create some sort of database to keep track of it all, and I' still using my database in Microsoft Works (currently running in virtual XP mode on Windows 7, I really must move it to a more up to date application soon!)
I reply on categories in Daz Studio to be able to find anything, and I'm starting to setup favourites in Poser in the same way.
As my collection has grown I have sometimes wondered if I was getting too much stuff. Daz Studio and Poser were taking longer and longer to start up, presumably due to the size of the libraries. But improvements in computer performance has speeded them up again.
If any of the Daz Studio developers are reading this, is there any limit to the size of the library in the application or the CMS?
Yeah been a while
Can't buy much any more myself no income to speak of now
Everything on my list is pretty much old stuff now and not everything that I had
Lost everything in a fire Dec of 2012 including all my backups that had files from stores and products that no longer exist about 175 cd's and dvd's all full
I tell ya Robert, I am very glad it was just stuff that was lost in that fire, and you are OK. At the least, the stores generally have everything you bought except Content Paradise. Even the 'retired' items are still in your accounts. That doesn't help much with all the freebies we all pick up from all over the place. I've been where you're at
though not from a fire.
On an aside; I see folks with "Old Posts: xxxx", Do you have any idea where would I get that info now?
McG.
I wonder if I could send DAZ a spindle of BD-R's and they would be kind enough to burn my account to them? ;o)
McG.
There used to be a link to the old forums but I no longer have it that's how I got my old post count
Daz used to do that but as far as I know they have discontinued that
You can use the DIM to download almost everything in your account and then make backups
see wendy♥catz beat me to it while I was editing
while they don't do that anymore DAZ install manager DIM will in fact download pretty much of it all in one go if you install it
you can then filter out stuff not in DIM and download that manually
...bugger just tried it and apparently (according to Cloudflare) it's offline. Have a link to a specific thread I often return to doeen't eem to ok anymore.
The arvhive has been offline a few months now but you could try your link in the wayback machine on internet archives, it has worked for lots of stuff for me
...even Wayback only goes to the beginning of the current forums now. Bugger there are several old thread I would return to from time to time, in particular the Little Vicky one where a bunch of us set out to turn Daz's #1 fashion model into a child.
However found the post old total as early in this current forum I had it in my sig.
So basically with this post I'm up to a total of 26521 (14868 from the old forums and 11653 here).
May have to put that back in the sig.
I may not have that much on the Daz store product library (14 pages), but on ShareCG, I've cleaned out entire catalogs. :cheese:
Here's another metric for too much content: How big is your backlog of content downloaded, but not installed? Mine is about 28GB. :red:
...I have several folders of freebies I haven't installed yet (too spoiled by the DIM I guess as they need to be manually installed)
Wow, I feel a lot better about my meager 21 pages now! Thanks everyone :)
Hmmm, is that the same feeling one gets after falling off a cliff but seeing someone further down than yourself?
Hmmm, is that the same feeling one gets after falling off a cliff but seeing someone further down than yourself?
More like the feeling you get when you're not the slowest person running from the crazed murderer in a horror film.
while they don't do that anymore DAZ install manager DIM will in fact download pretty much of it all in one go if you install it
you can then filter out stuff not in DIM and download that manually
I wish I had taken advantage of that burned disc backup option when it was available.
I had to delete some of my C drive image backups on the same external as my content to make room for more
Wow, hey, in answer to the title of this thread; WHEN, if ever, the time comes and ALL your content must be reinstalled, THEN you might get to thinking you have Too Much Content. I am wading slowly through mine, getting it all reinstalled after that HD crash. Not once, not twice, but THREE times it got me. So I bought and stuck in a brand new 1 TB drive ($53 walmart online) Western Digital. SATA 3. And its already near half full. I copied all the Vue stuff, 2D stuff and saved Renders to it too. Guess I need one more new one. Might get a 2 TB WD SATA3 drive though. :)
Simple reply to OPs question: No!
How much did DAZ pay you to say that? :lol:
You might say that if you have so much content that you'd never have enough time to use it all, you have too much. In that sense I definitely have too much. On the other hand, if you want to be able to create almost anything you could ever want to create, with what you have, you can probably never have too much.
One of the reasons I have purchased so much is that a lot of content is only vailable for a limited time, and you can never be sure for how long something's available, so if there's something you really like it's about getting it while you can. And there is a lot I really like, much more than I could afford with my current income.
If I knew I could always just purchase it whenever I wanted/needed it I'd probably just wait until then, even if I had to pay full price, which I could afford because I didn't have to buy more than I'd actually have time to use. I'd definitely prefer that.
How much did DAZ pay you to say that? :lol:
You might say that if you have so much content that you'd never have enough time to use it all, you have too much. In that sense I definitely have too much. On the other hand, if you want to be able to create almost anything you could ever want to create, with what you have, you can probably never have too much.
One of the reasons I have purchased so much is that a lot of content is only vailable for a limited time, and you can never be sure for how long something's available, so if there's something you really like it's about getting it while you can. And there is a lot I really like, much more than I could afford with my current income.
If I knew I could just purchase it whenever I wanted/needed it I'd probably just wait until then, even if I had to pay full price, which I could afford because I didn't have to buy more than I'd actually have time to use. I'd definitely prefer that.
The person with the most content when dead, wins. It's all a race!
I only buy things I think I might use, but I think I can use everything except Fairy and Manga, so it's a wide selection.
Oh, yes... Wise words. I've been through this at least twice. I carefully measure what I buy and never do that on compulsion, but I do suffer from compulsory freebie-gathering syndrome.
lotsa + content
i been foraging last weekend in the deeper freeze sale. Aiko3 content in the two dollar range. happyhappyjoyjoydance
plus all the christmas freebies :)
Last time I had to re-install my library I left out my M1 and M2 generations and a lot of my props and almost all of my third-party freebies and everything that had to be converted by some application or other. I still have all that stuff neatly and carefully archived (multiple times) but it will probably evaporate along with the end of the universe before it ever gets installed again.
..i agree when it comes to reinstalling as I am being prompted to put together specs for a new workstation by my sponsor and thus will have to clean install everything (going to be a real pain with all the Rendo, Xuge, RDNA content and freebies as the DIM doesn't handle those). Looks like I'll also have to migrate to 8.1 Pro (ugh) as 7Pro caps at 192 GB and the system is being setup for ultimate expansion to 256GB with dual 8 core Haswell Xeons.
Funny this should come up now. Last week my portable 2T drive fell out of my carry bag and was kaput! I kept 2 runtime folders, 1 for DS installed and one for poser content. I go to my back up 4T drive only to realize I only had the poser one backed up (still a good 151 G mind you) on the plus side I kept putting off to clean it up so I can move more towards Gen2, well I am doing it now....
Too much content! No I continue to get more and more both free and paid. As far as the DAZDIM goes, and I know some hate it, but me I'm loving it it as I had a crash and the DAZDIM program made it extremely easy to redownload all my daz products. My daz content is actually a lot easier to manage now being seperated out from all my tons of other valuable never wanna lose runtimes and installers. I don't know about everybody else but I set the DIM to save all the installers to a seprate drive. I like to keep them on a drive purely for installers.