Re-installing Daz

holden_attradies

Okay, I just had to reinstall windows. All of my old daz files seem to still be in the right folders, but after re-installing daz its not recognizing any of them as smart content (although they seem to be appearing in the content library pane). Is there a way to get daz to recognize all those files without re-downloading everthing? Also, I have a bunch of third party things I had made smart content for, I'm hoping I can get all of that back into daz without having to manually add it all again.

Richard Haseltine

Did you back up the AppData folder? Assuming you were using PostgreSQL as the database all you should need is the \AppData\Roaming\DAZ 3D\cms folder from your profile folder - I just did a reinstall, leaving my actual content drives alone, and replacing the CMS folder and resetting the content directories gave me the desired result (including New grouping).

holden_attradies

Richard Haseltine said:

Did you back up the AppData folder? Assuming you were using PostgreSQL as the database all you should need is the \AppData\Roaming\DAZ 3D\cms folder from your profile folder - I just did a reinstall, leaving my actual content drives alone, and replacing the CMS folder and resetting the content directories gave me the desired result (including New grouping).

How do you reset the content directories?

Richard Haseltine

Edit>Preferences>Content Library tab>Content Directory Manager - where you manbually set the folders, if you aren't using the defaults. The name don't have to be the same as on the old system, as long as the content is there.

holden_attradies

Okay, thank you. What you told me helped me find this:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/72890/database-maintence-reimport-metadata

Which got me close enough. I don't have all the metadata I manually put in, but I can live with that. All myfigures and subsets are loading in right and thats the big thing. Thanks!