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Reinstalling Daz - will I have to reinstall settings?

omvendtomvendt Posts: 58
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Hi, I am running out of HDD space so I have spread Daz across several drives. I thought about getting a new 2TB SSD just for Daz. Can I move assets and scenes in a simple way? I have sorted my assets into buckets like "Hair" and would really hate to have to do that all over. 

Thanks for you help.

 

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  • felisfelis Posts: 5,875

    After you have moved your content to the new HDD, update the paths in Daz Studio Edit > Preferences > Content > Content Directory Manager under Da Studio and Poser formats as relevant.

    If using DIM you should also update the manifest files, else DIM will get issues.

    If you have the downloads, you can point DIM to the new area and tell it to reinstall.

  • omvendtomvendt Posts: 58

    Thanks, Felis. DIM, is that "Daz Install Manager"?
    Merry Christmas!

  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,832

    omvendt said:

    Thanks, Felis. DIM, is that "Daz Install Manager"?
    Merry Christmas!

    Yes.  Make sure you keep a back up drive for your content as well.

  • Ron KnightsRon Knights Posts: 2,214

    I've been organizing my DAZ Studio content for decades.

    I ignore Smart Content and all the databases.

    I started installing my DAZ content on external drives maybe 20 years ago.

    I've installed my DAZ Studio setup on several computers, easily. 

    The largest challenge was converting from a PC setup to a Mac setup. That's because of the file formats for each computer.

    It's easy because I let it be that way.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,425

    Ron Knights said:

    I've been organizing my DAZ Studio content for decades.

    I ignore Smart Content and all the databases.

    I started installing my DAZ content on external drives maybe 20 years ago.

    I've installed my DAZ Studio setup on several computers, easily. 

    The largest challenge was converting from a PC setup to a Mac setup. That's because of the file formats for each computer.

    It's easy because I let it be that way.

    and broke some features. If they are not features you use that is fine, but please don't urge others to follow your lead without being aware that rearranging content stands a good chance of being problematic in some areas.

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