so ,i have a  mybook, 250 gigs. and i want to remove/transfer all my stuff frm my ole laptop (18 gigs  of stuff)to the external hd. but would i have to have my hd switched on when i wanna use my stuff in daz?

No problem.
I have the Daz program on my C drive and the content on my
external drive.
On the Ext Drive I set up a folder called Studio. I moved the complete
content folder to Studio.  open DAZ goto Edit/Preferances or hit F2
Then Directories / DAZ|Studio Content Directories
select Add then locate and select    ?:/Studio/content

Example: Mine-
E:/DAZ/Studio/content                 Holds all Figure related  (DAZ|Studio Content Directories)
E:/DAZ/Studio_2/content2          Holds all Accessories related (Poser Content Directories)
My Drive is the
Maxtor 750gig and
MyBook 1T Net  Drive.

My content directories are about 200gig total

thnx:)

This is the exact answer I was looking for, but I have one more question, in preferences-Directories, which tab would I use to point Daz Studio to these folders?
Daz/Studio/content
Poser Content
Other Imported Content
yeah, I'm new at this too,lol.
thanks for any help
cimaira

Quote - This is the exact answer I was looking for, but I have one more question, in preferences-Directories, which tab would I use to point Daz Studio to these folders?
Daz/Studio/content
Poser Content
Other Imported Content
yeah, I'm new at this too,lol.
thanks for any help
cimaira

? = your external drive
Daz/Studio/content = ?:/DAZ/Studio/content

Poser Content = ?:/DAZ/Studio/content
                            ?:/Poser

Move the complete content directory from C:/Program Files/DAZ/Studio
to your external Drive      ?:/DAZ/Studio
I moved Posers to        ?:/Poser
Then deleted the poser program on the C drive sence I never use the actual
program. I like DAZ better, But DAZ sees the directory.

Others to
  ?:/Working/DAZ Files
  ?:/Working/Scene Files
  ?:/Utilities/Objects
  ?:/Utilities/Backgrounds
  ?:/Utilities/Materials
  ?:/Utilities/Textures

and so on, the UtilitiesTextures and Materials are NOT the same as the
ones in runtime do not chang the content structure until you understand
how it works. When your ready to make changes so that you can organize
the files better you can PM me back. There are many things you can do to
make DAZ easer to use.

Hi Lighthorse, thanks for the info, I did move my content folder from DazStudio to the external drive, only now I can't open any of my saved scenes??? What the heck did I do wrong, lol.
I just copied and pasted the entire content folder on to the external, pointed Daz to it, and it shows up fine and all the items that should be there are there, however when I try to open a saved scene, it goes like this
reading... OK
building scene.... error see log file.. and then Studio shuts down on me. 
any suggestions?
thanks :o)
cimaira

It sounds like you did everything right. I cannot get into Daz at this time I am in the middle
of a render that will take a few days.
You need to be sure that Daz knows were the data folder is.
Off the top of my head I do not remember were I set that..
I will check as soon as I can.

In the mean time check and make sure the data folder is in the content folder
and the directories are located properly in the preferences in Daz.
The scene files should open with no problem.

**Cimaira
**Im only at 54 % Its taking way longer than I thought.
Hows everything working.

**
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Hi Lighthorse, wow that must be some render, I hope we get to see it posted in the galleries.
 I finally found a work around to get my scenes to show up, it was kind of a PITA, but it worked so I'm happy.
 Since I hadn't actually deleted the content folder from the C:/Daz/Studio folder, what I did was go back, and point DazStudio to that content folder, opened up my scene, then with the scene still open, went to preferences, removed THAT content folder and pointed to the new location of content on external drive. Then saved the scene, also in a new folder on external. Closed out the scene, then still pointed at the new content folder, opened it again, just to make sure it would open, and that worked. Had to do that for all the scenes I had saved, so it was a little time consuming, but not nearly as time consuming as it would have been to recreate all my saved scenes.  I'd still like to know what caused the problem, but hey, I'm a pretty happy camper right now, lol. Thanks for your help.
and when you get the time, if you still feel like checking out the problem, I'd sure appreciate it.
cimaira

Sounds good.
A lot of my scenes take up to 3 to 8 days depending.
I render to 11.5in. X 17in. Tiff files. Even with 2 gigs of
ram it takes to long.
If I remember I might add it to the gallery. Most of my
stuff can be seen at    FalconArts.com  and the gallery here
has a small portion.