Forum: DAZ|Studio


Subject: Reinstalling DAZ Studio Content - Best Method?

Xatren opened this issue on Dec 07, 2015 · 5 posts


Xatren posted Mon, 07 December 2015 at 3:38 PM

I find myself needing to move my DAZ Studio and all the content I have installed to a new computer. Once DAZ Studio is installed on the new machine, do I need to re-download and reinstall through the DIM, or can I just copy over my library to the new machine, like you used to be able to just copy your runtime to a new machine with Poser?

What's the best method to go about this move?


donnena posted Mon, 07 December 2015 at 3:45 PM

I copied mine to the new computer....
I installed DS and told it where the Library folder was gonna live (never on my C drive, cause I'm old and paranoid!) Then I copied all my goodies in to the folder DS created and Everything Worked! I was pleasantly surprised!!!

;>

Andy!


Xatren posted Mon, 07 December 2015 at 3:48 PM

donnena posted at 3:47PM Mon, 07 December 2015 - #4243062

I copied mine to the new computer....
I installed DS and told it where the Library folder was gonna live (never on my C drive, cause I'm old and paranoid!) Then I copied all my goodies in to the folder DS created and Everything Worked! I was pleasantly surprised!!!

This is very good news. Thanks.


wheatpenny posted Mon, 07 December 2015 at 4:10 PM Site Admin

I keep duplicates of all my content library folders on a removable flash drive, and when I need to reinstall them for whatever reason I can just copy them directly from the flash drive onto my HD. Never any problems doing it that way.




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mamba-negra posted Mon, 11 January 2016 at 9:26 PM

I have changed computers a few times and just either copied the data or used the same physical disk (my current setup is an external thunderbolt disk). I recently bought a windows computer that uses my Mac's runtime via network drive and I don't have any problems...except that I have a bunch of old stuff that I'll never use again taking up disk-space.