vanished content

LeatherGryphon

With no scene loaded I was browsing my Studio4.7 (latest official release) content pane in the "folders" sections (not categories) when all of a sudden my content pane went blank. WTF! I can't get it back. I rebooted the computer. I checked to see if the DAZ Content management service was running (it is), I rescanned my known content directories, no luck. HELP! Arghhhhhh

The directories are there and readable because if I do a search using the Content Pane it finds items but doesn't show the tree or folders. i.e. I can search but can't navigate the hierarchy. Arghhhh

SpottedKitty

It looks like you might have accidentally collapsed the middle bit of your Content Library tab. Look at the little dark patch directly above "0-0 of 0". Click on that, and see if your middle bit reappears.

I wish DAZ would make this more difficult to do by accident, I think I've been using D|S longer than you have, and I still do it sometimes. :-S

LeatherGryphon

SpottedKitty said:

It looks like you might have accidentally collapsed the middle bit of your Content Library tab. Look at the little dark patch directly above "0-0 of 0". Click on that, and see if your middle bit reappears.

I wish DAZ would make this more difficult to do by accident, I think I've been using D|S longer than you have, and I still do it sometimes. :-S

Ah ha! That was it. Found a middle bit and pushed it but didn't quite do the trick, only opened a set of check-boxes as to what types of items were to be displayed or searched for. Then I examined it closer and realized that there were TWO of those little "middle bits" one above the other I made sure they were both selected and my hierarchy came back. Yea! Thank you!!! :-)

Sigh... middle bits. Yeah, I've been known to fold up when someone presses my middle bits too!

Edited to add:
Interesting that in my original screen snap there was only ONE middle bit. But when I recreated the situation with the check-box pane closed and the hierarchy pane closed there are TWO middle bits as shown in the image below. Curiouser and curiouser!