So I have two "My Library" Folders...

Darkend

I'm sure that I'm the only person that this has happened to, lol.

Still using Windows 10 for now. Problem happened some time around the Daz Central Connect era, which I no longer use, and made it a point to opt out as quickly as possible when I could. I am using both Alpha (I like what I see so far) and Public Beta 4.24. Both of them have content that is fetchable by DAZ, so it's holding together and I can use Daz, but....I like ot keep things simple, and would prefer a setup that Daz prefers.

Paths are:

C> Users > Public > Public Documents > My DAZ 3D Library (this is the oldest and with the most content)

C> Users > Public > Public Documents > Daz 3D > InstallManager > Applications > Data > Daz 3D > My Daz 3D Library (about a third of content, and seems to be newer)

Edit, actually I have 3 when I open up Daz itself under Content Directory Manager. I have an additional "My library" listed under Users > "my name" > Documents > Daz 3D > Studio > My Library (probabably really old, and I'm thinking very little is in there, and I have probably moved content from here to the second oldest ages ago), but there is a catch. I have some very new content in there populating from "Daz Alpha" it seems. It has grabbed some of my custom characters (morphs including files not used on the one scene I have edited and played with while testing ALPHA) and the only saved scene I've worked on while using Daz Alpha. Under DSON cache files, the location points to:  C:/Users/"my name"/AppData/Roaming/DAZ 3D/dson/cache. Should it be that way or should it be using C:Users/Public/AppData/Roaming/Daz. I think this might cause more problems. Daz4.24 turns out also using this path, but all of my old "saved scenes" are not at that location, but rather in the "Users > Public > Public Documents > My DAZ 3D Library > Scenes" location. I'm cool with whatever Daz wants to do, but I'd like to know the proper way if possible.

Using DIM, I have found that under "Basic Settings," Content Database Base lists the second path  "Users > Public > Public Documents > Daz 3D > InstallManager > Applications > Data > Daz 3D > Content Database. Also "Content Base Path has Users > Public > Public Documents > Daz 3D > My Daz 3D Libarary"

The odd thing is, older DIM content is still visible and accessible (I'm assuming through a mapped folder (terminology?) line within Daz Preferences perhaps. I just want the application to be happy (bless the machine spirits) and maybe It will preform better for me on the machine I'm using until I put together a new one. Also, when I do set up a new machine, I will have a better idea of how to set things up so as to keep that version of Daz happy.

 Is there a world in which I can just Copy Paste, from Old to New (I'm assuming that Daz3d prefers the second path(?) without any trouble? Update Metadata required? Or will I be required to re-install DIMs? I have a fair bit of 3rd Party content as well, but those should just be a matter of copy paste AFAIK. I can keep using both, but for the sake of simplicity, I'd rather just have the one "My Library" folders. I presume, if I can pull this off, I can also remove some line in preferences where it points to the first, and older "My Library," as a suplemental "mapped folder," pardon if my jargon isn't quite right.

Am I just asking for a heap of trouble by doing this. It's a bit broken but it works, should I avoid fixing it? Thank you in advance.

felis

If you in Daz Studio go to Edit > Preferences > Content > Content Directory Manager and expand Daz Studio formats, that is the folders where Daz Studio look for content (installed manually or with DIM). Similar for Poser format. Connect is from within Daz Studio.

You can have several content libraries if you want (DIM can only install to one at a time), and they can be named what you want. The essential is that the libraries must not be nested, i.e one library is included in another.

If you in DIM want to change something, I think you need to go under Advanced Settings.