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Moved Daz Library to new computer with different Drive Letter

dlm4001dlm4001 Posts: 205
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I moved my Daz Library to a newer machine and setup up the Daz Install Manger Paths, and the Daz Studio Paths. Daz Studio can see my Library. The new computere Drive letter "F" was alread taken and several applications installed on that Drive (no room).  The new machine Drive letter is "G".       When I try to open Scenes created before the move, they are looking for files on the old PC drive letter (F) not the new one (G). I thought if you set the Daz Library "home" it would use relative pathing.. but it is looking for literal path name with the drive letter at the begining.  Is there a way to fix this, so I don't have to go through thousands of scenes and 'find" every file that is comes up "missing"?   I am in a bit of a panic. 

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 107,907

    Content that was in a content directory will have saved only the relative path (/data/Daz 3d/Genesis 9/... etc.) not the full path from the drive letter. Only if the file was not in a mapped content directory when saved would it need to save the full path.

  • jjoynerjjoyner Posts: 748

    If you’re using a Windows PC, you can easily change a drive letter to suite your needs.  Below are the steps that I copied from a web site (might have been Microsoft) a few years ago.  Last year, I needed to use the external HDD with my backup content because I dropped the primary one and killed it.  I needed to assign the backup external HDD the same drive letter that had been used by the primary external HDD.

    “How to assign a drive letter in Windows 10

    When you connect a new drive to your PC, Windows automatically assigns the next available letter after C, which is normally used for your system drive. So an external hard drive or USB thumb drive could end up as D, E, F, or whatever, depending on how many drive letters are already being used.

    This is all well and good, but what if you want to assign the drive a letter? Maybe you want to use M for your music files or X for your top-secret X-Files. Here’s how in Windows 10.

    1. Ensure that the drive you’re relettering isn’t in use and that no files from that drive are open.

    2. Right-click on the Start button.

    3. Click Disk Management to open the Disk Management console.

    4. Right-click the volume that has the drive letter you want to change.

    5. Click Change Drive Letter And Paths.

    6. Click the Change button.

    7. Choose from a list of available drive letters. (Don’t use A or B, which have historically been reserved for floppy drives and can sometime confuse older software.)

    8. Click OK.

    9. Click Yes if a popup windows appears asking if you really want to do this.

    10. Close the Disk Management console.

    You may need to restart your machine for the change to take effect, but once you do the drive will use the new letter.”

  • dlm4001dlm4001 Posts: 205
    edited September 16

    After restarting my machine this morning.. Now it is working. I think it is becasue I opened the newly installed Daz Studio the first time, made changes to the Library content location and then tried to open a scene.   After restarting, it opens the scenes created on the other machine with no errors.   YAY!   

    Still I leared something from both of you.. THANKS. 

     

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  • dlm4001dlm4001 Posts: 205

    Follow up.. The files that were missing, and still missing on SOME scenes are scenes where I usd thrid party HDRI files that I had in s seperate folder...  These are easy enough to remap. 

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