Where Should the CMS Setting Be Pointing To?
IceDragonArt
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Still having Postgres issues. Inside of daz studio where whould the CMS setting be pointing to? I thought I had it fixed but now I keep getting no postgres connection and I am missing most of my material files. I just had my second external drive fail, and I do have a back up of most of it, but I cannot get the postgres to show and I cannot figure out where to point the CMS setting. I am in the process of getting a new pc but I don't know how long its going to take to put it together and I woul like to still be able to work on stuff
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Daz Studio CMS should point to the same location as CMS in DIM:
And if you run DIM, does the CMS then run ok?
It is and it does not. I am getting an error message that postgre is not installed correctly. But at this point, I have zero idea where its supposed to be installed. My external drive that had the correct paths failed. I have another back up drive where I thought everything was where it was supposed to be but that clearly is not the case.
The CMS can be installed in any location, where it can be safely reached.
The problems you have sounds like it might be a place where e.g. security software consider it at risk.
My suggestion would be to look at your security software and see if you can allow access, or (my lazy approach) move the CMS to somewhere where it shouldn't be considered vulnerable, i.e. outside the primary windows area.
One thing to check. Your CMS is not in any way located on a Onedrive, because that will most likely cause trouble.
The cms is in my F drive so not sure that security software goes there. So if I were to uninstall the postgre and manually install it somewhere else and then point it to that, will that work? Strangely, if I re install via dim, the re installed files work fine. But they are in the same place that the already installed files are. My custom categories are gone again though.
F drive sounds safe. Though, is there a risk that the drive can change drive letter?
If you reinstall CMS with DIM, I would think that it resets the database (but I don't know).
But it sounds like you had the CMS running for a while and then it stopped running.
I did have it running when it was on the other drive. I had started moving things to another back up drive, and the one failed. So I tried pointing everything at the same place in the new drive but it clearly is not working. and I have installed and uninstalled the postgre upwards of about 10 times now via DIM. If I can figure out how to anually install then point everything to that, maybe that will help. I don't know. I'm very frustrated lol. My computer guy is building me a new one because this one is on its last leg, but I don't know how long its going to take. It should have enought space to store everything on the machine itself..
I must admit, I can't see why a manual install of CMS should be better than with DIM.
But either I don't know why a CMS on F drive might fail once in a while, unless the drive has potential drive issues. Have you tried running a check of your F drive?
Do you mean PostgreSQL itself or the database (the ContentCluster folder)? Public Build vs General release may not matter, but in all other respects (operating system and architecture - 32 bit or 64 bit) databases are not cross-compatible.
No my F drive is fine, the E drive croaked. The whole drive. I can't even begin to tell you the amount of art and things I have lost as it was a fairly new drive and I was actually actively working on moving things to the F drie when the E drive failed. Hundreds of hours lost. But apparently, I either didn't get all the bits and parts to make everything work on the F drive or I just can't figure out where everything is supposed to go anymore, I've tried 200 different combinations and now I am just totally confused lol.
I can see the content cluster folder in the f drive and have repeatedly tried to point cms inside of studio to it but it refuses to recognize it. I am getting a message that postgre may not be installed correctly as well. Its not my firewall or security as it worked just fine on the E drive. The F drive My DAZ 3D Library (where all of my content is) has over 7000 files in it. DIM is only seeing about a 1000 installed and thousands more that need installed. But, they are installed. And, to complicate things, I have that library inside my das studio but the assets won't pull the material files. Unless I reinstall via DIM, then it works correctly.
Okay so this is really weird. postgre cms is now working. ( Turned the laptop off last night, wasn't working, no custom categories, no materials for most of my content) got up this morning and I now have my custom ategories, postgre cms is working properly. However, the materials issue was still there so I did some digging and it seems that my data files did not copy correctly to the new F drive (and of course, I can't get into that drive, it will run, but it won't actually read that there is another drive there, so I'm guessing its a loss unless I spend upwards of $400 to pull the stuff off) So, I am going to be stuck re installing everything, no just whats in DIM but also from other places and the hundreds upon hundreds of files from when I worked for Sympatico. Thank god I managed to get those moved to the new drive before the other one croaked or I would have been out countless assets. I'm super happy I figured it out and am just grateful that I can fix it. I will work on re installing everything to the F drive so when the new computer is ready I can just move it all over.
Thank you to everyone for the help, much appreciated.