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Need help with content

brainmuffinbrainmuffin Posts: 1,270
edited December 1969 in The Commons

I wanted to get the Studio content onto my second drive, so I copied the directories over and told both Studio and DIM where to find them. All hell broke lose. Well, version 4.7 is out and Reality has an update, so I uninstalled and cleaned everything. I downloaded and install DIM and told it where I wanted content. I did a few test downloads and it looked good. Then I downloaded 4.7 and installed (no starter content), updated its directories and now all it does is complain about not being able to find anything. Back when I ran under Windows I had multiple runtimes as that's how I tried to keep it all straight. Now I'm on a Mac and totally frustrated. What is the proper way to have Studio and Content on an external drive?

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  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited December 1969

    Are you looking in the Smart Content tab or the Content Library tab? The content database is not saved with the content or either of the programs — if you uninstall everything but don't touch the database, it'll still be there (with its links pointing to the old content location) when you reinstall DIM and D|S. Go to the Content Library tab (not Smart Content), select Content Database Maintenance from the Options button, then Reset Database and Reimport Metadata.

    Note that this will delete any custom categories you might have created; if you want to keep them, there are a few other things you need to do before resetting the database.

  • brainmuffinbrainmuffin Posts: 1,270
    edited December 1969

    SpottedKitty said:
    Are you looking in the Smart Content tab or the Content Library tab? The content database is not saved with the content or either of the programs — if you uninstall everything but don't touch the database, it'll still be there (with its links pointing to the old content location) when you reinstall DIM and D|S. Go to the Content Library tab (not Smart Content), select Content Database Maintenance from the Options button, then Reset Database and Reimport Metadata.

    Note that this will delete any custom categories you might have created; if you want to keep them, there are a few other things you need to do before resetting the database.

    It was both, but I will give this a try. The Smart Content hasn't worked for me for several versions now. I believe when I installed the PostgreSQL based option is when Smart Content started failing miserably.
  • brainmuffinbrainmuffin Posts: 1,270
    edited December 1969

    The Content Tab looks much better. Now to understand if Smart Content will ever work again.

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited December 1969

    ropeman said:
    The Smart Content hasn't worked for me for several versions now. I believe when I installed the PostgreSQL based option is when Smart Content started failing miserably.

    Did you run the transfer utility that converts the old Valentina DB into PostgreSQL? This does have a bit of a drawback, if the Valentina setup is beginning to go bad, the transfer might have problems, in which case it might be easier to start from scratch with a fresh database.
  • brainmuffinbrainmuffin Posts: 1,270
    edited December 1969

    SpottedKitty said:
    ropeman said:
    The Smart Content hasn't worked for me for several versions now. I believe when I installed the PostgreSQL based option is when Smart Content started failing miserably.
    Did you run the transfer utility that converts the old Valentina DB into PostgreSQL? This does have a bit of a drawback, if the Valentina setup is beginning to go bad, the transfer might have problems, in which case it might be easier to start from scratch with a fresh database.Where is that located?
  • JimmyC_2009JimmyC_2009 Posts: 8,891
    edited December 1969

    The transfer program should be available to you in the DIM.

    It is called 'PostgreSQL CMS From Valentina CMS Conversion'

  • brainmuffinbrainmuffin Posts: 1,270
    edited December 1969

    JimmyC_2009 said:
    The transfer program should be available to you in the DIM.

    It is called 'PostgreSQL CMS From Valentina CMS Conversion'
    Does it run automatically after install?
  • brainmuffinbrainmuffin Posts: 1,270
    edited December 1969

    I'm getting nowhere with this. When I use the Content Library tab to find Genesis 2 female, it complains it cannot find a V5 texture and I end up with a female silver surfer.

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,692
    edited December 1969

    ropeman said:
    I'm getting nowhere with this. When I use the Content Library tab to find Genesis 2 female, it complains it cannot find a V5 texture and I end up with a female silver surfer.

    That sounds like the content directories aren't correctly defined. Can you post a screenshot of Content Directory Manager with DS formats and Poser Formats expanded?

  • brainmuffinbrainmuffin Posts: 1,270
    edited December 1969

    fixmypcmike said:
    ropeman said:
    I'm getting nowhere with this. When I use the Content Library tab to find Genesis 2 female, it complains it cannot find a V5 texture and I end up with a female silver surfer.
    That sounds like the content directories aren't correctly defined. Can you post a screenshot of Content Directory Manager with DS formats and Poser Formats expanded?I may have made it worse.
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  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited December 1969

    That third D|S Format entry is very definitely wrong and might be a major source of your problems. You must never have a content path inside another content path — these settings must always point to the folder containing the /data/ and /Runtime/ folders.

    What do you have in the path for the second Poser Formats entry? You said you'd moved all your D|S content to the external drive, do you have Poser installed as well?

    BTW, is the "My DAZ 3D Library" path exactly the same as the path you defined for DIM? The two programs do not talk to each other, there's nothing to prevent DIM installing content to one location and D|S looking for content in another location.

  • brainmuffinbrainmuffin Posts: 1,270
    edited December 1969

    SpottedKitty said:
    That third D|S Format entry is very definitely wrong and might be a major source of your problems. You must never have a content path inside another content path — these settings must always point to the folder containing the /data/ and /Runtime/ folders.

    What do you have in the path for the second Poser Formats entry? You said you'd moved all your D|S content to the external drive, do you have Poser installed as well?

    BTW, is the "My DAZ 3D Library" path exactly the same as the path you defined for DIM? The two programs do not talk to each other, there's nothing to prevent DIM installing content to one location and D|S looking for content in another location.

    There was a /data entry for DAZ content, but I removed it thinking it was part of the problem. I only have content in one place and that is off of /Volumes/External Data/DAZ Content/DAZ 3D Library. I do not have Poser, so any Poser based content is stuff DIM is installing. That is most likely older content like V3 that is still Poser based on structure.
  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,692
    edited December 1969

    DIM does not set the content directories in DS. Can you go to DIM's settings (the gear icon in the upper right) and click on the Installation tab, and post a screenshot?

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