foxygoddess opened this issue on Nov 28, 2008 · 6 posts
foxygoddess posted Fri, 28 November 2008 at 4:05 PM
I don't know how to transfer my DAZ program and all of its files to an external hard drive. Could somebody please tell me how to do this? I need step by step instructions, otherwise I'll get confused...lol. Thanks a lot. :)
RHaseltine posted Sat, 29 November 2008 at 8:17 AM
To move it to an external drive for use on the same machine, just move the folder holding the application (e.g. the Studio folder in C:Program FilesDAZ) and in Edit>preferences>Directories change the paths for the DAZ Studio and Poser content directories that have moved.
If you want to make a stand-alone (except for content directory listing and serial number) version, you need to add the daz*.dll and dz*..dll files from WindowsSystem32 (or the matching .dylib files n the Mac, I never can remember where they live) to the folder on the external drive.
foxygoddess posted Mon, 01 December 2008 at 5:26 PM
I'm kind of confused...can I just drag and drop ALL the files from my computer into the hard drive?
RHaseltine posted Tue, 02 December 2008 at 6:39 AM
Yes. Though as I said, you will need to update the list of content directories.
foxygoddess posted Tue, 02 December 2008 at 3:03 PM
How exactly do you "update" that list? Sorry, I'm really inept when it comes to this kind of stuff..lol. Dumb it down for me if you can... :) If that's already dumbed down, then I guess I'm just SOL! Haha.
RHaseltine posted Wed, 03 December 2008 at 9:35 AM
If you move the content folder(s) you are using you need to go to Edit>Preferences>Directories
When you open that tab you will see the list of DAZ Studio content folders, if any - assuming there's one there, and it's on the wrong drive now, highlight it and click remove. Now click Add and select the new location (for a DS folder you want the folder that contains the Data and Runtiem folders).
Now, near the top of the dialogue, just under the row of tabs, there's a long button labelled DAZ Studio content directories: click that and select Poser content directories from the menu. Again, you should see a list of folders with at least one entry (the Content folder in the original DAZ Studio folder). For any that have been moved, highlight, click Remove; then click Add and select the new location of the folder (you want the folder that holds the Runtime folder). Click Accept and that should be it.