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Hard Drive Swap

john_9bea886cjohn_9bea886c Posts: 13
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

Hello All. This is my first post, so apologies in advance for it being a question, and thanks in advance for any help!

I have my OS installed on a primary SSD for speed, but all my apps (including DAZ3D) and data installed on a secondary HDD. I back up my data periodically to a third portable USB drive. 

I am about to replace the secondary HDD due to age, and I'm taking the opportunity to upgrade to Windows 10 Professional while I'm there.

Last time I upgraded my primary SSD I did a clean Windows 7 install and reinstalled all programs. Most, such as my Steam library and Armoured Warfare, were detected by the new installs, thus saving me GBs worth of downloads. When I did a clean install of DAZ however, it did not recognise the files on the HDD - even though they were all there. I played around with Install Manager file location settings, but could not get it to identify the existing files and install them. I had to download them all from scratch.

Can anyone advise if they've done a re-install and preserved already-downloaded material and had DAZ recognise and filter correctly?

Thanks again.

Comments

  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805

    Yes. It was very painless. I'm not sure what went wrong for you.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,799

    Install Manager tracks what is isntalled by the Manifests folder - by default in Public Documents/Daz Install Manager/Manifests though you can move it in Settings. You will also want to back up the Content Management Service database - by default that is in %AppData%/Daz 3d/cms/ContentCluster/ though it can be chnaged in DS, in Edit>Prefrences>CMS Settings; you should make sure no CMS aware application are runing when backing it up.

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,846
    Richard Haseltine said:

    Install Manager tracks what is isntalled by the Manifests folder - by default in Public Documents/Daz Install Manager/Manifests though you can move it in Settings. You will also want to back up the Content Management Service database - by default that is in %AppData%/Daz 3d/cms/ContentCluster/ though it can be chnaged in DS, in Edit>Prefrences>CMS Settings; you should make sure no CMS aware application are runing when backing it up.

    Wish I had known this before I used DIM for the first time. Not having DS find any files in my old saved scenes is a huge pain. I tried copying my files in the public documents folder over to the old directoty in my deocuments and it still didn't see content from older saved files. If I uninstall the current files in the public documents section with DIM and change the path in DIM and reinstall, you think it will make a difference?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,799

    Are you sure the paths match? In any event, you can update the path in DIM then select all the installed content, right-click, and reinstall using the current path (instead of uninstalling and reinstalling in two steps).

  • john_9bea886cjohn_9bea886c Posts: 13

    Thanks for the comments, I'll try some of these when I do the rebuild and let you know.

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