To bhoins & RH,

To answer your questions, I was opening them in DS4.03, and they were originally saved in the same. Then the C drive DS was installed on crashed. I replaced it with a new drive(Win7/64) and reinstalled DS 4.03. When I went to open the Daz scene files with Vicky4 that were backed up on external drive in the reinstalled program, is when I got all the missing files messages. Like I said, there's around 27-30Mb of saved character, hair, clothes, etc in each .daz scene file, but the program doesn't recognize it and reports missing files.

Now granted, I reinstalled 4.03, but not all the things used to make my characters originally. So, do I need to reinstall all the V4.2 character, muscle morphs, hair & body files, all the skin & vascularity shaders & body fixes, props & clothes back into the DAZ Library folders?  I was under the belief that the data saved in each Daz scene file which included all the above shouldn't have to be recreated and remorphed from the ground up. But what say you?