Products hiding in Lost and Found

wildbillnash

First, I would like to ask what the heck is the Lost and Found for? To keep us busy searching for things?

I purchased several items that ended up in L&F that I would prefer to be in their proper categories/folders. For instance, i found two products I purchased months ago, as well as one I purchased today in L&F. The are The Sewer and The Stairwell by Evilinnocence/RuntimeDNA and The Road to Madirac by Daz Originals/Anima Gemini/RuntimeDNA. I would prefer them to be in a folder I wouldn't have to search for. I've been placing some items in Content Library/My Library/Scene Subsets/Enviroments folder so I don't have to click all over the place to create a scene. But for some reason they would not copy into my folder.

So, what do I need to do to correct this problem?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Richard Haseltine

Lost and Found should be otherwise uncategorised items. Note that a product will appear in every category to which at least one of its files is assigned, the product itself is not categorised. To categorise a file or files, or even a whold folder in the Content Linrary, right-click and select Categorise then check the categories you want assigned - if you need new ones right-click to create.

wildbillnash

Thanks, Richard. I tried searching for the categorize option ealier but couldn't find it. I was trying to catergorize the whole folder at once. It don't work that way. I have to do each individual item and hope that are at least close to each other in the Smart Content/Files/Enviroment folder. But it looks is all goes in the a its folder under the Products tab. I haven't tried the Road to Madirac yet, but that's next.

NorthOf45

You can right-click on a folder and "Create a Category from" -> "Selected Folder..." or "Selected Folder & Sub-Folders..." All assets in those folders will be in their own category tree using the same folder hierarchy.

You can select one or more assets in any one folder and right-click on one of them to "Categorize" to add to an existing category or make a new one. It is more granular if you want to separate the assets into different categories, but more time-consuming.

Richard Haseltine

NorthOf45 said:

You can right-click on a folder and "Create a Category from" -> "Selected Folder..." or "Selected Folder & Sub-Folders..." All assets in those folders will be in their own category tree using the same folder hierarchy.

In the Content Library pane, not in Smart Content (since those are not real directories).

You can select one or more assets in any one folder and right-click on one of them to "Categorize" to add to an existing category or make a new one. It is more granular if you want to separate the assets into different categories, but more time-consuming.

Ron Knights

It appears these Lost & Found items or problems were created on DAZ's side. DAZ should fix the problems, not paying customers.

Richard Haseltine

That assumes that Lost and Found is a problem. it is the place for things not otherwise categorised - if you want them in a category you are free to place them there using the method above, but not doing so does not impede the functionality of the product. Yes, I would agree that older items that are not categorised at all should ideally be given fresh meatadata, but its omission is not actually breaking anything in the core application.

ShelLuser

Ron Knights said:

It appears these Lost & Found items or problems were created on DAZ's side. DAZ should fix the problems, not paying customers.

Correction: the side of the author of whatever products you bought. Daz is merely the store, the artists are the one responsible for setting up a correct package.

And yes, I agree that it can be annoying but..  it's also really easy to fix yourself.

Richard Haseltine

ShelLuser said:

Ron Knights said:

It appears these Lost & Found items or problems were created on DAZ's side. DAZ should fix the problems, not paying customers.

Correction: the side of the author of whatever products you bought. Daz is merely the store, the artists are the one responsible for setting up a correct package.

And yes, I agree that it can be annoying but..  it's also really easy to fix yourself.

I believe metadta is done by Daz, not the PA - aside from anything else, the PA doesn't know the SKU at the time they upload the product.

ShelLuser

Richard Haseltine said:

ShelLuser said:

Ron Knights said:

It appears these Lost & Found items or problems were created on DAZ's side. DAZ should fix the problems, not paying customers.

Correction: the side of the author of whatever products you bought. Daz is merely the store, the artists are the one responsible for setting up a correct package.

And yes, I agree that it can be annoying but..  it's also really easy to fix yourself.

I believe metadta is done by Daz, not the PA - aside from anything else, the PA doesn't know the SKU at the time they upload the product.

Well, I base this opinion on the fact that if you save something as an actual Daz Studio support asset (File -> Save As.. -> Support Asset) then this will involve quite a bit of meta data, including things like vendor name, item name as well as its compatibility base and category.

nwleee_a52bfead84

An unhelpful, yet slightly amusing comment:
Up until right now, when I read this thread, I had thought my "Lost and Found" folder was a customized folder that I created myself.
Because a couple of years ago, I had a chapter in my comic story called "Lost and Found", and I thought those were the files I used for it.
I'm glad now that I didn't delete it, thinking it was files I didn't need anymore.