Several thousand "Unable to find filefor storable" error messages when opening an old "xyz.daz" file

3dcheapskate

When I open one of my old .DAZ files (either by double clicking the "xyz.daz" file ( it opens in DS 4.6), or by opening DS3 / DS4.6 and doing File > Open) everything seems fine until at the end of the loading I get the "Unable To Find File" pop-up. I go to the log file and find thousands and thousands of "unable to find file for storable: /data/3_0/..." lines.

Iirc all those missing files were generated by DAZ Studio when I originally loaded things, and put into the 'My Documents'folder - "/My Documents/DAZ3D/..." (I use Windows).

I'm not using the same user account as when I created these files (I'm not even using the same computer) - so if my assumption is correct how can I get around this little problem?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Richard Haseltine

The files are written to the Data folder by earlier versions of DS when saving imported (OBJ or Poser) content to a scene for the first time. If you backed up the Data folder you can just restore it to a DAZ Studio Format content directory. If not your only real option is to reinstall DS3 (if necessary), load the content, and save to a scene - that's geometry and morphs only, poses, lights, textures etc. don't need reloading. Fortunately DS4 does keep a note of the original file, and so can recover better from a missing Data folder.

3dcheapskate

Thanks Richard, that's what I thought...

Oh dear...

(Never mind though... looking on the bright side there's not too many scenes that I saved from DS3 alone, since I liked to use my scenes in both Poser and DAZ Studio and most were PZ3 files)