Everything was deleted after the update

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• nemesis10 Posts: 3,879

  February 8

  AsuCafe said:

  I opened DIM to install recently purchased items, and then a program update popped up. I clicked OK, and after reinstalling the main program, I found that all my content libraries were deleted. Now I have to re-download everything. What did I do wrong to cause this? I don't want this to happen every time I update.

  Check to see if the libraris are still on your computer and just need to be relinked.  It is unlikely that they were deleted since erasing a big bit of data takes a fairly long time.  So, go to Daz Studio > Preferences > Content Manager and relink the locations where everything should be before you consider downloading again.
• AsuCafe Posts: 279

  February 8

  nemesis10 said:

  AsuCafe said:

  I opened DIM to install recently purchased items, and then a program update popped up. I clicked OK, and after reinstalling the main program, I found that all my content libraries were deleted. Now I have to re-download everything. What did I do wrong to cause this? I don't want this to happen every time I update.

  Check to see if the libraris are still on your computer and just need to be relinked.  It is unlikely that they were deleted since erasing a big bit of data takes a fairly long time.  So, go to Daz Studio > Preferences > Content Manager and relink the locations where everything should be before you consider downloading again.

  At first, I thought so too, but after checking that the path was the same as before, I found that the hard drive, which was almost completely full, was almost empty (several hundred gigabytes less). Only then did I realize that it had been deleted. 
• Richard Haseltine Posts: 109,028

  February 8

  DIM didn't do that, there is nothing in the installation process that will touch your installed content. I woudl suspect either a hardware issue or possibly soem kind of aberrant security software.
• takezo_3001 Posts: 2,033

  February 10

  Richard Haseltine said:

  DIM didn't do that, there is nothing in the installation process that will touch your installed content. I woudl suspect either a hardware issue or possibly soem kind of aberrant security software

  Thanks for chiming in, I am in the middle of a update as we speak, and I was worried...