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I Accidentally Deleted ALL the Smart Content Metadata

GeoDudeGeoDude Posts: 7
in Daz Studio Discussion

I was trying to organize the content I bought from a third party vender and I accidentally deleted the default categories in the categories tab. In so doing, I accidentally removed Smart Content's ability to organize the products I bought in the DAZ store automatically. Is there a way that I can restore this data? I tried unistalling DAZ and reinstalling it. This did nothing. Now my projects take hours to complete beacuse I have to hunt down the products individually. If anyone has a solution other than starting again from scratch, it would be appreciated. Thank you in advance!

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  • felisfelis Posts: 4,311

    Not sure how you have deleted the metadata.

    But have you tried in the Smart Content tab, click on the 3 bars in the corner and select Content DB Maintainance > Re-import metadata.

    You can select that it shall reimport from all products. It will take a while.

  • GeoDudeGeoDude Posts: 7

    Thnk you! I gave it a try and only a few things came back. It's a start. I'll do some further research. Thanks again!

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,781

    You shouldn't be able to completely remove the vendor data (that comes from the store) except by deleting the products entirely - it may go from the purely database driven panes, but it should still be present in the Content Library pane.

  • GeoDudeGeoDude Posts: 7

    Yeah, I'm just gonna have to use the Product Library pane until we (the community) can come up with a solution. It'll be time consuming but it's better than having to start from square 1. Thank you! I'll check back for other suggestions. Thank you again!

  • felisfelis Posts: 4,311

    Assuming that you are using DIM to install, if you then in DIM click re-install, will that bring the metadata back?

  • GeoDudeGeoDude Posts: 7

    Tried reinstalling from the DIM. That didn't work.

  • felisfelis Posts: 4,311

    I don't understand why it is happening.

    The only suggestion I can come with is to first reset the database, and then re-import all metadata. It might be that your CMS somehow has gone corrupt.

  • murgatroyd314murgatroyd314 Posts: 1,515

    In your operating system, take a look in the (your library)/Runtime/Support folder. Are there a whole lot of files in there?

  • GeoDudeGeoDude Posts: 7

    Woo hoo! I reset the database and reimported the metadata! It worked! Thank you all for your help!!

    Next time, I'll think twice before I try to declutter by categories tab.

    THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!

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