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Subject: the folder: ContentData -- can this be cleared?


AnteriorLobe ( ) posted Fri, 27 October 2006 at 4:26 AM · edited Fri, 10 January 2025 at 8:06 PM

In DAZ Studio (and maybe in Poser) the folder ...ContentData is filled with, what appear to be data files pertaining to anything and everything that I have pulled into DAZ Studio. Right now this is about 175MB worth of stuff...but does it keep on growing? and can one go in and prune?

This appears, to my untrained eye, like a sort of cache. In which case that it could be cleaned up now and then.

Is this true? I suspect it is and that there is something else going on here...


uncle808us ( ) posted Fri, 27 October 2006 at 6:48 AM

I'd like to know this too on my Mac it is a folder called data.

MacBook Pro OSX El Capitan Ver 10.11.6


mhossack ( ) posted Fri, 27 October 2006 at 8:39 AM · edited Fri, 27 October 2006 at 8:40 AM

IIRC the data folder holds the geometries for all figures that you've saved in a scene in DAZ|Studio.

If you delete the files in there you may find existing scene files will throw errors about missing files when you try and open them.

Hopefully someone a bit more experienced with Studio will have more info. :biggrin:

Mark



RHaseltine ( ) posted Fri, 27 October 2006 at 9:07 AM

Mark is right - the data folder holds the geometry information for saved scenes. The folder names are _ so if you need to prune you should be able to identify stuff you've finished with (and if you need to get the scene back, load the Poser version into a scene, save, and the files will be recreated). DAZ|Studio saves to the data folder in the first DAZ|Studio content directory listed in Edit>Preferences>Directories tab, so by removing your content directories and reselecting them in a different order you can manage where the files go - D|S is happy to read from a data folder in any content directory.


AnteriorLobe ( ) posted Fri, 27 October 2006 at 4:36 PM

Ah...interesting. Thanks to all!


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