In my new Windows 10 There are 2 paths to save to on the hard-drive: This PC, then Users, then computername, or Public.

Confusion 1, the computername choice has "Documents".

So path looks like C:UsersyourcomputernameDocuments.

Confusion 2, second option "Public" has "Public Documents" This is where my installation of DAZ4.10 went. Also here is where "My DAZ Library" is located. Apparently, after later versions of DAZ4, the default was changed from "My Library" on my hardrive to "My DAZ Library" for DIM content. so this path looks like:

C:UsersPublicDocumentsMy DAZ 3D Library.

I found countless references to install 3rd party content to My Library, but apparently it should now go to My DAZ Library (not to be confused with the DAZ Connect, which is confusing.)

If you recently installed latest version of Windows 10, (like in June 2019) you will find that Windows has OneDrive, their cloud storage, which actually sucks up all your files. I like to work on my Desktop, but when I started next morning, my folders were gone! The OneDrive sucked them up and away. But, it will put them "back" if you request for each usage. Incidentally, the first 5gb are free, over that a subscription must started in order to get at the stuff they have. It just stalls until you do that. So now we have yet another path that looks like this:

C:UserscomputernameOneDriveDocumentsDAZ 3DStudioMy Daz Connect Librarydatacloud1_14812peoplegenesishairaldora.

The OneDrive sucked up the DAZ Connect! Insane! And, since I disabled the OneDrive, I can't load the hair either.

There was another path to the OneDrive with "Documents", but I have disabled it, so I don't remember the exact path wording. I still have to retrieve the Genesis 1 Essentials for my shaders to work. Simple uninstall and reinstall has not worked.

So if you have a new pc with Windows 10 Edge, you will not be able to see DAZ forums for help, because the screen is grey out. One must go to the Microsoft site and download the Beta version of Edge, which will see the forums, and other sites that were grey out. I suppose you could try other browsers, but the Beta worked easily for me.

I have reconciled myself to manually installing the 3 general folders, data, people, runtime. But it is not 100% working. So now that I know which path I prefer to store my Rendo stuff, I put a shortcut on the Desktop (confident it will be there tomorrow). I just drag and drop. The dsf files are in the My DAZ Library, so I won't get the grey blocks. So now on to doing some actual art creation!

Both DIM and Daz Studio allow you to customise the installation folders. "My Daz 3D Library" in the Public Documents is the default fro DIM, but manual installs and your own files are still expected to go in the /Daz 3D/Studio/My Library folder in Documents - except for ExP Morph expansions, which have to go in the same content directory as the base figure.

RHaseltine, always appreciate your advice. I didn't know you were here on Rendo. I coundn't access the DAZ forums for a couple weeks due to another "new version glitch in the factory installed browser! It is essential to know what the DAZ products path is and 3rd party products paths is. People are always asking. I just watched a 1yr old video by Black Sun Comics https://youtu.be/dVqM-10sOzY which said to use "My DAZ Library" for 3rd party. But I think consistency is the basic thing. Having reinstalled for the 3rd and 4th times in the past month, I'll specify the default path on my hard drive in the DIM towards the Public Documents folder. I chose his video because there were other kinds of folders than the 3 basic ones, and some products I purchased also have extra folders I didn't know what to do with (besides documentation and readmes).

My main point was that ridiculous thing that the OneDrive cloud did to the pathways. Impossible to find in Smart Content when the Cloud will download back a product file to the computer "on demand". Impossible to find on one's hard-drive even If I installed them the suggested way---because the OneDrive actually removed them and made up its own paths!

So I'm demonstrating that when the OneDrive gets busy, the path, just doesn't make any sense any more, as in this example--which is what the OneDrive downloaded from its cloud back to my machine. Want to know how I know? Because I deleted all the files named C:UserscomputernameOneDriveDocumentsDAZ 3DStudioMy Daz Connect Librarydatacloud1_14812people (etc). Gone, vanished, of my manual or DIM installed products. Had to run Recover on a less than month old machine! Reinstall etc. Here's the simplest example:

"C:UserscomputernameOneDriveDocumentsDAZ 3DStudioMy Daz Connect Librarydatacloud1_14812peoplegenesishairaldora" in yet another "Documents" folder!

[This forum post has removed the slashes] (a hair included in Genesis Starter Essentials.) Clearly, this is not the path for DIM installations or 3rd parties I did install in My Daz Library or My Library. I hope this helps users with new pcs with Windows 10 Edge, (grey forum screens) and the removal of installed files to the cloud by OneDrive.

There are a lot of files you do not want on the cloud and Microsoft pulling that stunt is not helpful to anybody. To be fair, Apple tries it's darndest to suck you into it too. But yes, I specifically set up my windows 10 computer so it does not have a cloud enabled account. Simply because I do not want my "My Documents" folder to be on the cloud.