Daz on on D drive
ThomasaWall_c6775836f5
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I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this but I have to ask.
I finally acquired (used because it was cheap) a comp that can handle Daz 4.5.
However it came with a solid state drive C drive that is only 59 gigs.
The previous owner ran the OS on the C drive and all his programs of the D drive.
Fine - that works for some things but will it work for Daz with its hyper complex content installation paths for content.
I know what the paths are because I had them all set up on my previous rig before it died on me.
Obviously I can't put my content on the C drive since I have about 40 - 50 gigs of content.
Since I'm asking - what about Carrara and Hex?
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It's best to have it installed to you primary drive and then put all your content on the other drive
I thought the content had to be on the same drive as the program.
If I can have Daz studio on the C and the content on the D then I'm good to go.
Thanks.
I'll try that.
I have Carrara and Hex installed on my D Drive (as well as Bryce and Poser) Unfortunately I don't use DS so can't say if that will work there as well.
The only things that go on my C drive are the OS, AV and browsers. With Poser I actually have all my runtimes saved on an external and am actually running them from there.
I have Daz installed on my C: drive (SSD) and my content libraries on my D: (a traditional drive) and it works like a charm. I've had issues with the Install Manager, though. That's easily fixed by manually installing the folders in the "Content" folder.
Cheers
No the content can be wherever you want it. Just add that folder in DS
What problems are you having with install manager?
the only place you shouldn't put your content is in Program Files (Windows)
The content can be anywhere...including on another 'device' entirely...like a network storage device. Studio can be installed anywhere, too.
The key is to pick a place to install it to FIRST.
I would, download the Install Manager setup file and install that, first...to D drive. Then, run it and configure it to install everything else to D, also before actually doing any installs. Or if you want to use the exe installer for Studio...use the custom install options and point it to D:
Also if possible, I would re-arrange Windows, itself, before installing ANY software...to MOVE, permanently, all the USER folders off of (that can be moved...MS only supports moving some of them...like the Documents folder) C drive and on to D:...
It's best to do all of this right after a clean install of Windows, before any software is installed.
I have DAZ on my very large D:\ drive on my main machine (same reason, SSD) and on c:\ on this laptop. You do not want to install DS on an SSD, and you want to manually configure the location of the temp files so that they are not in the c:\Users area, either. They bulk up too fast and absolutely will trash your ability to do anything at a reasonable speed.
I'm not sure whether or not this vulks up Install Manager, but it's never mattered because I use that on this machine and just copy over and install the download folder's latest contents each time.
Basically, if you configure the Install Manager to not use the default locations BEFORE you start downloading with it, there won't be any trouble...it's when you start switching things around mid-stream that it can go pear-shaped in a hurry.
I have Daz Studio installed on E: and all of my content on F:. No problems yet whatsoever. I do use DIM to download/install whenever possible, but this setup worked even prior to DIM existing.
I use a combo of C:, D:, and 2 externals
What problems are you having with install manager?
It was an issue I was having with an old version, my content being installed via the manager wasn't being detected by the smart content window. I had to change some of the paths in the system and it reset itself sometimes. It was just more trouble than it was worth
I've never had a problem with it. Were you installing while DS was open? The only way it don't show up in smart content is if none is available.
It was a directory issue. The place it was installing was not the location my Content Library was looking for the data. I had to change the path within the utility, but the path would not stay. It's since started working, so it was either a bug fix or my own user error.
I still prefer manually installing most content, simply for personal organization reasons though.
I prefer DIM. I can install 100's of packs at once and they are all where they are suppose to be. If you categorize your stuff then it can be a bit difficult but not by much. Download time are also a very small fraction of the time it takes to manually do it.
Greetings,
Overnight installs of dozens of products FTW!-- Morgan
Another vote for DIM here.
BTW, out of curiosity, I just checked my content library. 51 GB!
My OS is on C: which is a 256 GB SSD.
My apps and 3D content libraries are on my F: partition which used to be on an HDD, but over the holidays I moved F: to a 960 GB SSD. I also moved some other stuff to that new SSD too. Opening things is very quick, whoohoo!
I currently have DS, Blender, Carrara, Bryce, Hex, et al installed to said F: partition and the content library also currently on the same partition, but in a completely separate folder structure, which should make it easy to move to another partition if I ever need to; but at 51GB and now after my Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas buying binges, it's growing at a rate of only about 25% per year, it's probably not going to be an issue for years yet.
I use the DIM, but I 'cheat' a bit - that is, I take all the content down to a D-drive, where I install it to a sub-directory, where I spend time adding the readme's, re-naming & re-arranging a few folders so I know what's in them - from Yamaki to Motorbikes/Yamaki for instance. Then I move it all down to my gigantic F-drive where I have my daz-content. With a few minor issues it works fine.
I have almost the same configuration and I have that already for years now , including DS, and never had any problems. Only thing I had (have) to do is direct the programs to the runtimes/content.
Love, Jeanne :)
The only system where I have DS installed on the C: drive is my parent's desktop computer, and that's because there's only one partition on it ;)
I've been using DS since the first public beta and never had problems.
All my content is on an external drive so that I can use it on all my computers.
I have my Windows OS on my C: SSD
Content on D:
and programs on E:
no problems at all with anything :-)
I have a 128G SSD C and a 1T HDD D. I can't get install manager to install anywhere but C. The install path seems hardwired to C.