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Reinstalling Daz on new PC, do I need to reinstall all my old assets?

heisdaveheisdave Posts: 130
in The Commons

Hi, I have reinstalled Daz on  a new pc after not using it since covid.  I have a couple of  characters I built in duf files on an external drive. When I load a duf file, Daz cant find any of my assets; morphs and clothes and a custom logo surface for the Tshirt, etc.  so the craracter looks like the  micheline man..

Question 1, how do I get a list of all the assets that were used in the duff? I know I downloaded a bunch of free assets from sharegc back a few years ago.

Question 2, do I need to reinstall all of those assets?  Or can I point Daz to load assets from my library on external hard drive ?  If so how do I do that?

Thanks!

 

Comments

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 12,817

    If you still have your content library on an external drive then you can add it as an additional content folder in DS: 

    • Open DS, go to edit > Preferences, then in the "Content" tab of the preferences window select "Content Directory Manager"
    • Under "Current directories" you should have sections for "Daz Studio Formats" and "Poser formats": click on "Daz Studio Formats" then "add" on the left, and selecr the content directory folder on your external drive (the folder which contains the "Runtime"). Do the same for "Poser formats" if you have content in Poser format.
    • Once you've done that, the content should appear in the "content library" tab. If you want it in Smart Content too you will probably need to reimport metadata.
  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,355
    edited April 2025

    One important point: On Windows, DS has a cache of support files for all your installed Daz programs at C=>Users=>(your user profile name on your computer)=>appdata=>Roaming-=>Daz3D . You may need/want to copy those directories to appdata=>Romaing=>Daz3D on your new computer. Otherwise, you'll need to check for plugins and scripts that aren't working because they rely on data from those directories. You can reinstall those plugins and scripts. That should get them working again.

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  • LeanaLeana Posts: 12,817

    The app itself and plugins should indeed be reinstalled on the new computer, otherwise you might miss some parts.

    For scripts it depends, some would work with only the content files and maybe some "appdata" files, some may need to be reinstalled.

  • crosswindcrosswind Posts: 9,625

    You don't have to re-install anything.... How to migrate everything from old PC to new PC within 15 mins: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/9128591/#Comment_9128591

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