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Looks like I lost some files... [SOLVED]

Chanteur-de-VentChanteur-de-Vent Posts: 567
edited May 2016 in The Commons

I've been opening an old scene containing a custom character skin I made. It came out with an error, saying that the skin used to be in something like "C:/Users/Username/Documents/DAZ3D/My Studio/Runtime/Textures/My custom folder"

When I opened this folder, there was no "Runtime" folder in "My Studio" folder. There are some other folders, like "data" and what not. The horror came when I found out that apparantly all of my backups didn't contain this folder either. I don't really blame them, this would have been an odd folder to save my custom characters to. On the other hand, it is a bit suspicious, because I usually do backup my Documents folder. Not as often as my Pictures folder, but I do. 

The problem is that this folder is something I can imagine a install of DAZ 4.9 could have overwritten. And I also know that those files were created during some wild spread on only one of my many computers. I'm not sure I backed it up properly. 

So, could someone clear up my confusion: could it be that a install of an update of DAZ overwrites this folder including deleting (!) folders there, not just adding new ones?

Also, could it be that DAZ sends me to some strange place instead of the right place when not finding the files?

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  • DAZ_RawbDAZ_Rawb Posts: 817
    Chanteur-de-Vent said:

    I've been opening an old scene containing a custom character skin I made. It came out with an error, saying that the skin used to be in something like "C:/Users/Username/Documents/DAZ3D/My Studio/Runtime/Textures/My custom folder"

    When I opened this folder, there was no "Runtime" folder in "My Studio" folder. There are some other folders, like "data" and what not. The horror came when I found out that apparantly all of my backups didn't contain this folder either. I don't really blame them, this would have been an odd folder to save my custom characters to. On the other hand, it is a bit suspicious, because I usually do backup my Documents folder. Not as often as my Pictures folder, but I do. 

    The problem is that this folder is something I can imagine a install of DAZ 4.9 could have overwritten. And I also know that those files were created during some wild spread on only one of my many computers. I'm not sure I backed it up properly. 

    So, could someone clear up my confusion: could it be that a install of an update of DAZ overwrites this folder including deleting (!) folders there, not just adding new ones?

    Also, could it be that DAZ sends me to some strange place instead of the right place when not finding the files?

    4.9 doesn't delete any files, what is most likely is that multiple products may have had the same filename listed and in the 4.8 -> 4.9 database merge it mangled that a bit (because the 4.9 database handles the same filename in multiple products much differently) so Studio is now having a difficult time finding that file.

  • Chanteur-de-VentChanteur-de-Vent Posts: 567

     

    Thanks, Rawb. 

    After looking through every folder I could find in my backups and my computer, I finally found the skins. They were located in my old content folder (from pre-DIM times) in something like "C:/Users/Username/Pictures/Old Custom Content folder/Runtime/Textures/My custom folder". Looks like I deleted the old content folder (because I thought everything I owned was already savely migrated to the standard DIM location). DAZ went nuts and told me it couldn't find the files.... and send me to this very old default content folder from the pre-DIM times. Stupid DAZ. smiley

     

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