Items Starting To Disappear From Custom Categories Again
IceDragonArt
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I have noticed over the past couple of days that things are starting to go missing in my custom categories that were showing just fine a couple days ago. For insance, First Bastions Breaking Waves. The lights show where I put them the shaders show where I put them however, the props themselves have gone missing even though it shows as check marked in the box. Re importing meta data did not help. Several other things have gone missing recently as well. If Iremember correctly the newest wood shaders went missing a couple days ago. I am starting to get worried that eventually the whole thing will be gone again. I can't work without the custom categories. I cannot function in smart content and the way things are set up is completely counter intuitive to my work flow. without those custom categories I might as well just close up the program and walk away.
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Are you regularly backing up your user data? Lately I've gotten more corruption, usually it manifests itself as newly installed content not showing up in product view. . I export user data, and then have to reset the database and reimport it, at least once every couple of weeks. It is a pain, but seems to minimize disruptions with my custom categories.
That might explain some weird things happening in the latest 4.9 Beta catagories - things are just not there or I have duplicates I can't clear but are still fine in 4.8 (I have to catagorise in 4.8 because the Blue highlight has gone in 4.9 and I can't work with Smart Content either). Has Support said anything about the problem, Serene?
I haven't had time to work on custom categories, but when I do, I do it in 4.8. They appear over in 4.9, but if they don't, I can set up the scene in 4.8 and in 4.9 set up the lighting etc and render in 4.9. But no, haven't noticed anything amiss in this latest update. Did you keep 4.8 just in case?
I really need to load 4.8 back on my main render computer now that the laptop has died. I put it off because things were so crazy for a while. I think I may make that my project this weekend. I have it saved on a flash drive. 3dDreamer I can't function in Smart Content either and I desperately need those blue bars to find my new content lol.!
Serene Night are you just re importing your new items or your whole data base? I can't imagein re importing my entire data base every couple of weeks....
No, I zap the whole database and reimport. With 4.9 it takes a lot less time. Used to be hours, now, now less than an hour. I usually leave it to do its thing before bed, or before work.
Okay I don't know if this will help, Sonja, but I think I have fixed my problems taking my lead from Serene Night, atleast for the moment.
I installed my latest purchases, catagorised in 4.8, exported User Data (and backed up my whole DAZ content folder to my NAS - it had been a few week
)
Reset that Database in 4.9 Beta, reimported all Metadata in 4.8 (because it was cleared there too), opened 4.9 Beta again - everything with DAZ-provided metadata was there without duplicates, but nothing without metadata. All of which I've done before. This time I reimported just the User Data in 4.9 Beta, and I got my scenes, 3rd party content and Freebie catagories back - before I'd re-imported all the metadata in 4.9 which I think duplicated things.
Periodically I find I must back up
user data to a different folder and delete it from the runtime support folder forcing Daz to make a fresh set with the current file structure. I was having trouble a while ago because there were multiple user datas in created during one of the betas. Making a fresh set also helped with speed. I'd only do it if you have a recent made user data as backup to restore in case you have problems.