as the laptop has a small ssd the program was in c>programs and all content was in an external drive. Id pointed daz to that content folder, and restarted daz a few times after entering the serials but where in the past you could see the thumbnails of dufs in nested daz content folders with the new daz studio pro there were no thumbnails and none of the content would load. In the end I took the daz studio program folder from the older laptop and had it overwrite the contents of the newer install