Some time ago I had asked if DS 4.8 is compatible with .daz scene files from DS 4.0 and the consensus here is that it shouldn't be a problem as long as the file content is not too old, such as pre-DAZ 4.0 or pre-V4.

Well, when I've tried to open some of my previous DS work going back to 2013 & '14, it gets a little more than halfway and then gives me Missing File error messages that say:

"Could not find file: Runtime/Textures/DAZ/Characters/MilWom/V4/V4 HiTorso,V4 HiHead, V4 SkinNeck, V4 SkinHip.dsi..."

So I followed that folder path it gave me and it's true that those .dsi files are not in my current DS 4.8, just Jpegs.

But what I don't understand is that all her original files/parts were in those .daz scene files otherwise I could never have created or saved them in the first place. They had opened just fine in the past.

What's more, I can recreate or regenerate Victoria 4 within 4.8 with the Powerloader fine, and it creates the stock V4 with all her standard parts with no problem. So where is the DS 4.8 folder containing .dsi files that my old V4 needs?