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Smart content directory detection

misamisavie98misamisavie98 Posts: 19
edited October 2023 in Daz Studio Discussion

Hi,

So I had some PC issues lately that required me to reinstall all software that was installed on my main drive.
I have my DAZ content (props, environments...) installed on an other drive than the DAZ studio installation drive (and it was already the case before).
Only my main drive is a new one, the drive with the DAZ content was untouched and the DAZ content is still there. So how do I tell the smart content tab that my content is installed? I added this drive manually in the content library so the content does show up on the Smart content tab, but it's all grey.
Also it's probably an other issue, but after opening a scene that I made prior the PC issues I had, no morphs were applied, except for the posing ones. I don't wanna have to do it all over again.
 

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,244
    You need to map the library that has your content on it in the Content Directory Manager in Daz Studio. Don't forget to check the configured paths in your installer ( e.g. DIM) to be sure future content gets installed to the right place, too.
  • misamisavie98misamisavie98 Posts: 19
    edited October 2023

    barbult said:

    You need to map the library that has your content on it in the Content Directory Manager in Daz Studio. Don't forget to check the configured paths in your installer ( e.g. DIM) to be sure future content gets installed to the right place, too.

    That's already done, as per the attached screenshot (that's the E:/ drive library), unless I am missing something?

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,244

    That looks strange. Do you use Daz Connect? Why is Daz Connect Library listed in the Daz Studio Formats section, and your regular Daz Studio library is listed in Daz connect Data section? What is that big long truncated path (the last path) in the Poser Formats section. That doesn't look right.

  • misamisavie98misamisavie98 Posts: 19
    edited October 2023

    I used to use Daz connect, but now it's impossible to find how to download it back.

    I changed the E: path into the same one from the formats section.

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,244

    Did you lose your database (cms cluster directory) on the C drive when you had computer problems? If so, you should try reimporting all metadata to restore as much as possible. If you had installed products with Daz Connect, I don't know how to recover that without reinstalling all that content. I suggest that you never use Daz Connect. Don't ever log into your Daz account from inside Daz Studio and turn off autologin in preferences. Install missing products with DIM. I still think your content directory manager is not right, as I posted above, but I don't know if those issues contribute to your problem. If you map directories that don't have content anymore, I don't think it should matter, as long as you have the right directories in the right formats sections.

  • misamisavie98misamisavie98 Posts: 19

    What about the morphs? Will they reapply once I reinstall everything? I was in the middle of making a series of renders... I can't just reapply everything without making inconsistencies, and it's more than a month of work.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,244
    I don't know. If the morphs were part of a product that is no longer installed, and you reinstall that product to your mapped library on E, I would expect the morphs to reapply after you close Daz Studio, reopen it and reload the scene. Do you get missing files errors when you open those scenes? Does your Daz Studio log file list missing file errors? If so, try to figure out products those missing files are part of and install those products.
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,957

    barbult said:

    I don't know. If the morphs were part of a product that is no longer installed, and you reinstall that product to your mapped library on E, I would expect the morphs to reapply after you close Daz Studio, reopen it and reload the scene. Do you get missing files errors when you open those scenes? Does your Daz Studio log file list missing file errors? If so, try to figure out products those missing files are part of and install those products.

    It should even need DS closed, just the scene/character reloaded/refreshed.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,244

    Thanks for the correction, Richard.

  • misamisavie98misamisavie98 Posts: 19
    edited October 2023

    So after installing products from my smart content tab, and clicking the "browse to file location" the installation is made into a weird folder, as follows:

    E:\Daz\Applications\Data\DAZ 3D\My DAZ 3D Library\data\cloud\1_58639

    whereas before, my products (people, props, environments...) were (and still are as I didn't delete them) directly in the "My DAZ 3D library" folder, not in "data/cloud, etc."

    Why is that? Is there something I need to fix?

    I mean, if DAZ is looking into those weird files, no wonder it can't find my old content.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,957

    misamisavie98 said:

    So after installing products from my smart content tab, and clicking the "browse to file location" the installation is made into a weird folder, as follows:

    E:\Daz\Applications\Data\DAZ 3D\My DAZ 3D Library\data\cloud\1_58639

    whereas before, my products (people, props, environments...) were (and still are as I didn't delete them) directly in the "My DAZ 3D library" folder, not in "data/cloud, etc."

    Why is that? Is there something I need to fix?

    I mean, if DAZ is looking into those weird files, no wonder it can't find my old content.

    That is correct - Daz Connect places each product in its own folder in the /data/cloud/ folder in the daz Connect Directory, while installing through one of the separate applications lumps them all directly into the content directory used. It is this separation that causes scripts that need to access files in a specific location, or from another product, to fail unless they are written to account for it (which is hard to test until daz has built the installers, and not helped by what looks like to me the wrong behaviour from one of the script commands that could be sued to find files). It does make it easier to find the files used by a product, though, so there are pros and cons.

  • misamisavie98misamisavie98 Posts: 19

    Thing is, what's happening is the reverse. It's now that I'm using the smart content that my content gets put into data/cloud, and as I've used the daz connect before, that content was neatly put into my library.

    Sorry if there's something I'm still missing here... I'm just want my good old workspace back and scenes as they were ^^"

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,957

    Installing through Daz Studio, whether it's the isntall pane, Smart Content, Content Library>Products, or the missing product alert is using Daz Connect. You may be thinking of Daz Central, the stripped down version of Install Manager, for your previous installation.

  • misamisavie98misamisavie98 Posts: 19
    edited October 2023

    Oooh yes, I mixed up the two names.

    So is that data/cloud thing going to mess up my scene? Or is the scene going to be able to find the content back like this?

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,957

    No, Daz Studio will be able to resolve the paths from saved scenes and presets (as long as there were not issues like nested content directories when they were saved, but that would be an issue however the content was isntalled). The issue is with some scripts.

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