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A tale of two hard drives: I had to re-install...

chad4halechad4hale Posts: 9
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

My C drive had only 120 GB left, and Daz pretty much was going to need all that and more...

My D drive has 220 GB left,  I used the install manager to uninstal everything. Did a total Pc maintenance

and found a folder in my documents that won't be deleted, where I had initially intended to keep Daz stuff and my downloaded 3rd party content.

I tried to re-install on drive D. and that seemed okay. but when I try to use Daz3d it says, "can not open file (x,y,z,) file does not exist.

So, any idea how I can fix this?

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  • jestmartjestmart Posts: 4,449

    You need to tell Studio where your content is in the Content Directory Manager, while it is open you my wish to change the Connect directory to the other drive.  You will also need to update the database for Smart Content.

  • chad4halechad4hale Posts: 9

    Okay. "Steps" is it ? 

    open install manager and log in

    click the little cogwheel (to open settings) 

    Select the third tab of hte pop-up box "instalation"

    make sure to enter in the directory box below, where things should go ...

    or am I missing it still?

  • chad4halechad4hale Posts: 9

    Okay. "Steps" is it ? 

    open install manager and log in

    click the little cogwheel (to open settings) 

    Select the third tab of hte pop-up box "instalation"

    make sure to enter in the directory box below, where things should go ...

    or am I missing it still?

  • chad4halechad4hale Posts: 9

    wait:

    Daz 3d studio 4.9 > open,

    Edit tab > select the Two Cogwheel thingy "Preferences"

    go along to tab "content"  push the bar for "content manager"

    Make sure addresses of where content should go/be are on hard-drive.

    okay... but how can I update the smart content?

     

  • chad4halechad4hale Posts: 9

    Argh! clearly I am not doing this right.

    How do I completely undo the damage "I" have done, and start over.

    Alt+F4, open daz instal manager, all intalled items tab, select all, start que to uninstall all...

    tehn what elese? how can I be absolutely sure of GROUND ZEROING this stuff. 

    no hidden folders, no stuck settings or preferences, none of it.

    just TOTAL NUKE, and start over. 

    *I guess I won't be using any 3rd party downloads!  I had over 100 gb of them from all over the web  (caught 3 viruses in the process, scrubbed via my copy of Zone alarm pro*)

    without all that Daz is about 4 to 5 GB...  but now I have to start with veritably nothing to work with.

     

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