Detecting changes
ant2505
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Hello, everyone!
I've got a situation: i saved my scene some time ago on a computer with few users, now i open the scene and i want to make sure that my work wasn't changed after me by someone (accidentally or not). So, what's the best way to do it, in your opinion? Maybe in Daz Studio there is a possibility to see which changes have been made and when?
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Do you remember the exact date/time you last touched the file? If so, you can check the scene file's date/timestamp to see when it was last modified (and thus potentially changed or not). Of course that only tells you the main scene changes, somebody could have changed image textures or other things that are separately referenced which would be harder to track, but perhaps less likely to have changed.
Do you have a backup of the scene? If so you could use a utility to compare the two files byte-by-byte to see if they are different or identical. Presumably changes would likely have modified the file size so an easier (but not 100% guaranteed) method would be to compare the file sizes between the original and the backup.
Do you do still renders (not animation) and do you have an old render lying around? you could re-render, then rapidly toggle back and forth between the old and new renders in an image viewer, if anything changed it should be pretty obvious because it will be jiggling back and forth when you do that. Won't help if you need to worry about things out of frame, and you might miss something subtle if you can't switch back and forth fast enough for the eye to catch the differences.
Perhaps you could dig through the log file. That would be a lot of work, not even sure what you might be looking for, but perhaps some change could jump out at you. I probably wouldn't bother trying this unless you are desparate.
Thank you for your help!
Am i right, by "file's date/timestamp" you mean standart Windows's one?
Does log file collect all "doings", that been done, or only some particular events like errors?
As I understand it content purchased is licensed to a user, not a computter, so in theory (and practice?) others using your scene (and hence the content) could be a breach of the EULA.
I guess, in theory, you're right, but i suppose i can't arrest all other users of the computer)
Correct. Right-click on the file (see attachment for example in Windows 7)
Only certain events. That includes some errors and some non-error info as well. While you won't be able to piece together a complete picture and it would be a lot of work, perhaps there will be something in there that would indicate that a change had been made, but it's a long shot.