140 gb of DAZ content on my C drive
rnollman
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II am trying to clean up my local hard drive (C drive) and I found that I have only 94.0 GB free of 485 GB total available. All of my data files are on portable drives. I only have programs and system software on my local hard drive. I found that the DAZ 3D and My DAZ 3D Library are taking up a combined 83.4 GB and 70.5 GB. I assume that is the DAZ content I have bought over time. I have attached screenshots of the folder properties. Can I off load this content onto my portable drive, freeing up the space? If so how do I do it and is there a good reason not to do this?
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I forgot to attache the image files.
I have everything on E drive, including Manifest files and everything else I've found
I had to move my 120TB off mine
and that's not with the zips
You mean GB not TB, surely.
mmm misread
1.2TB
No there is no good reason not to, minor reasons maybe. If your main drive is a fast SSD and the other drive isn't you may notice a longer loading time when loading content into Studio. Negligible in my experience.
As to the how. Move your DAZ My Library to your second drive (or move the contents to a similarly named set of folders on the external drive). Open Studio and left click on the four lines in the top right hand corner of your Content Library and click Content Directory Manager (Pic 01). Click the plus sign next to Daz Studio Formats and under Directory click Add... (Pic 02). You will then open a window to navigate to your new Library folder and add it. If you moved the folder, and will not be using the old one again, then highlight it and click remove (not necessary but tidies things up). Do the same for Daz Connect Data. You can only edit the Connect path, not add or remove from it.
As you can see in the pics attached I have both my libraries on the F: drive and I shortened the main folder name to just My Library when I created it.
As to the install files, it will depend on how you install files. I use DAZ Install Manager. If you use that open it and click on the gear icon in the top left corner and select Advanced Settings. There are two tabs here we need to look at.
First, Downloads. Here you can change the Package and Thumbnail download path to one on your external drive. You can move the contents of the existing C: drive folders to this one. Zips downloaded via DIM will now be downloaded to this folder (Mine is a temp directory on my C: drive - Pic 03).
Second, Installation. Here you can change the location of where the manifest files are stored and again you can change this to a folder on your external drive. Make a note of the current path if you want to move the contents of the current C: drive folder to your external drive (Pic 04).
In the bottom left hand corner click on the plus sign and a window will open asking for a label and path (Pic 05). Type in a label (folder name) and navigate to your new library folder on the external drive and add it. You should now see two paths at the bottom of this window. At the end of the Content Path Shortcut line you should now have a drop down arrow icon. Click this and choose the label you just entered. This makes this the default directory in DIM. Change Content Updates to Install to the currently selected path (Pic 04).
Note - if you find your files are not being removed when you do an uninstall then it is because the manifest file is pointing to the old folder. Easy to remedy, see post below.
If you use Daz Connect I'm sure there must be similar settings in that and this might help with what to do.
Hope this helps, any questions just yell :)
Edited for various splng mstks
With regards to the uninstall, I used to have my Library on my G drive not my F drive. If you need to change an old manifest file attatched is a pic of a manifest file opened in Notepad++ where the install path is the G drive. Prior to uninstall I simply change the letter G to the letter F in the highlighted line and save it. Uninstall works perfectly after that.
I have Daz and all my content installed on an independent SSD, however I've noticed that for things like temp files and anything related to LIE and LAMH exports, it will default to the C: drive and I haven't figured out how to change that. Some scripts that need to run and then export finished morphs, such as XTransfer also default to the C: drive (and that one doesn't seem to have an option to change it). It drives me nuts because I have a 250GB SSD C: drive that is supposed to be just for my operating system.
A lot of that is probably your Render Library. There's no need for that to be on your C drive. Some it's probably old scene files, too. I go through those periodically and move a bunch off when I'm done with them. The balance of that stuff, including the Appdata/Roaming/Daz 3D takes up around 20 Gb, and I'm fine with that.
LAMH gives me issues if I try and move things off C too. Not sure about LIE, haven't come across any of that on my C drive.
If XTransfer is creating morphs in a data folder on C they should be OK to move to the data folder on the independent one. I don't think the morph read of a figure is hard coded to a specific path. So long as it is in a read folder which your main library obviously is. Note - I haven't tried it myself so could be wrong but logic says it should work.
You can use Junction Links to get around some of the C: drive usage, but occasionally an installer will break the junction link, so you have to keep an eye out for that (and then manually move the files then recreate the junction link). I really wish Windows had a way to lock junction links so unaware programs don't accidently break them. But overall, they're an easy way to move content to new locations without having to update an application or database.
It's easy to change directories with Daz, as long as you're not using DazCentral for some reason.
Here's a small tool for easy modifying of the library paths in DSX files:
https://3dcontentmanagers.com/software/freeware/clpdsx-daz/updates/cpldsx-1.000.zip
Just select the ManifestFiles folder, enter the new path, and click OK, it will then convert the paths in all files in the folder.
WARNING: with multiple library setups the DSX files will have different UserInstallPaths for each library, don't use it here unless you actually want to convert them all to the same path!
Yup I had to do the same Wendy I got up to 1.1Tb , I've been recently breaking that up to 3 other drives getting them more organized
I am trying to save my main drive C:\ just for software and programs. I even have moved my PreFetch files and Virtual Memory to drive G:\ to off load some of the burden off the SSD C:\ drive
I am sure my content size is mere pittance compare to others here though
Ditto here. I've been using multiple 6-8 TB external drives attached to my systems for years, have multi-slot external "hard drive toasters" on each system as well, and recently installed some massive internal 14tb hard drives I got during a crazy sale at NewEgg earlier this year as catch alls. That way I can back up everything with multiple redundancy, something I've been pretty paranoid about every since a bolt of lighting hit a telephone line outside the house and traveled up both the power and ethernet cables, frying my first quad-core computer before my UPS/Battery backup could stop it.
Storage is ridiculously cheap these days, and it's well worth buying a couple of redundant drives rather than losing a bunch of stuff you can't replace easily.
Thanks for that, will give it a try as I moved my entire library from one drive to another so I only have one path.
Although I think it will be a while before I run out of hard drive space
those periods are very tiny on the monitor with my old eyes