SOLVED: Question: Is there a way to locate where files have been installed to categorize them?

Serene Night

Hi:

Is there a way to find where dim is installing base files for things. For example love the New Escort Weazel vehicle. I can find it in product view, but where in the DAZ directory is it installed?

The reason I ask, is often things are organized in folders in this view much more comprehensively, so different colored textures are sorted etc. In product view it is all lumped together. Finding the matching windows, doors and antenna when they are all named similarly is time consuming. But I can't find the vehicle in the base daz directory.

Usually I read the readme file to find out where stuff is installed, but there is no info.

sriesch

If you hover the mouse over the content thumbnail in the Content Library pane for a few seconds, it will pop up an info box that among other things has the exact path and filename of the content. I'm not sure how much this will help though if you have installed everything into the same runtime.

While you wouldn't want to have to do this with everything, if you have only a few items in question, you could always temporarily install the product into an empty folder and look at the files in that folder to get things sorted out, then delete that folder after looking at it.

When I install products, to avoid this exact problem, I have gotten into the habit of installing one product at a time (or a small group of products I can't possibly get confused, like one clothing item, one architectural item, one vehicle, etc.) and then completely categorizing that before installing the next product.

Serene Night

Thank you. This is a good tip. I'm going to run with it!

fixmypcmike

If you right-click on the installed item in DIM and select "Show Installed Files" it gives you a list of every file and the exact path, click on a file to open the folder it's in.