remove 3Delight files

ainuke

Hello All,

I never use 3Delight and will never use it. I would like to remove all instances of them on my pc to save space.

I did go throught with an Explorer search a few months ago and removed the texture files with their extension, but that left me with many icons in the product pages showing missing files. Is there a clean way to remove these elements as well, or am I stuck with them? I have a library of over 20K products and uninstalling piecemeal is not really an option. 

Any advice?

TIA,

Erik

Mattymanx

I dont use the database funtion in DS to go through my library, I simply use the tree view.  I have been able to manually remove the 3DL presets from sets without issue.  Most sets dont have seperate textures for 3DL and Iray so I haven't had to remove textures yet.

Richard Haseltine

Presets are going to be pretty small files in general. What you are seeing, as Mattymanx says you are looking at a database-driven view; you can remove references by right-click menu in Categories - and often the 3delight materials will be in their own category, so finding most of them shouldn't be too hard.

crosswind

Go to Content Library > Categories > Default > Materials > 3Delight, Ctrl + A in the Page view to select all thumbnails, right-click menu > Remove Orphaned References... (or Remove References... if you don't need them all...)

If there're many pages, click Right Arrow button to navigate or click Plus button to increase the number of asset items displayed in one page.

Then be noted: DO NOT directly re-import metadata of these products even if you need to do so next time... otherwise these orphaned thumbnails will be back ~~