My C:/ Drive is nearly full.Can I create a DAZ My Library on an external removal hard drive? If so can anyone assist me me with what I have to do to make Studio reconize it? Cheers

Thats what I do. Works Fine. Make a Content directory and move stuff over, then add that content directory to daz, you can have more than one, so you can have stuff in both if you want to set it up, move a few things and try it. You can even have duplicate stuff in both. (I wouldnt make that a practice, but it would allow it)

Many thanks for your help! Cheers

I have another similar question. Can I change the DIM Manager to install into My Library on an external removable hard drive? It is still putting all my downloads in my C:/ users,public documents. As I mentioned before this drive is almost full! Cheers

Yes, just update the appropriate file path in the DIM manager to install to the new library location.

Two minor points.
If you are mapping to an external drive, and that drive is not connected, issues may occur.
If you are mapped to a drive that is completely full, issues will occur, this is especially true of the C: drive.

One additional point. Mapping your content to another drive is a typical thing to do. What many people don't realize is that you can map your temporary directories to a different drive. This is extremely effective if you map them to a high speed SSD. (High speed 64 GB and 128GB drives are getting to the pretty cheap price point.)

It is under preferences and there are two of them.

Hi All. Are you saying that I can create separate Contents folders, and somehow tell Daz3d to load them when I need them. Rather like Runtimes in Poser? Reference to the Temp Directories, where are they normally? And how do I move them? Grum

Hi Grum,

As I understand, it's something like that. However, it's not really "Contents folders". There is a "Content Directory Manager" under Edit.Preferences. Maybe you already knew about it, though. I don't know how "Runtimes in Poser" work.

If your question is really about "what is loaded in memory", I don't know the answer. I think DAZ Studio builds an index of your content, but it really seems to only load the asset when you put it in the scene.

It appears DAZ Studio creates its own temp files in the AppData folder on the system drive, or at least whatever the system understands is %AppData%. I think to move these, you'd have to move %AppData%, which I think only Windows surgeons should do.

Personally, I created about 6-10 different directories with the Content Directory Manager, because I can think of different scenarios that I would want some available. Also, I factor out new directories for different marketplaces. DAZ content installs fine for me 99% of the time, but content from other marketplaces sometimes needs some kind of fixup, which I'm still learning how to do.

Hope this helps

Grum posted at 11:09PM Wed, 09 September 2015 - #4227480

Hi All. Are you saying that I can create separate Contents folders, and somehow tell Daz3d to load them when I need them. Rather like Runtimes in Poser? Reference to the Temp Directories, where are they normally? And how do I move them? Grum

Grum posted at 8:03AM Thu, 10 September 2015 - #4227480

Hi All. Are you saying that I can create separate Contents folders, and somehow tell Daz3d to load them when I need them. Rather like Runtimes in Poser? Reference to the Temp Directories, where are they normally? And how do I move them? Grum

Yes you can. Right Click on the COntent Library tab and choose Content Directory manager.

Temp file location is in Preferences. (Normally in the shared documents folder, wherever you have that mapped.)