Recommended way to manage content library..?

chrisjapow

Hi there, apologies if this is a newbie question but well, I am a bit of a newbie - started using Daz a couple months ago, but I think I'm getting my head round it all. I've been manually sorting my content library into my own categories instead of using the default ones so I can find things I want easier, but it's becoming a bit of a pain. Just now I picked up the Pandemonium Hairpin set which comes with over 1,000(!) .dufs, all sitting in Lost & Found! I'm trying to extract all the ones that are a) G8F and b) iray as those are the ones I actually want, but going through this many by hand is a bit intimidating. I'm sure there's a better way of doing what I'm doing and I think this is the trigger for me to actually find it out! Is there some automated process that can do what I want, or some management product that can help me? Cheap is good, free is better. Alternatively - can anyone give me a hint on where to get started for scripting? I'm a software developer myself so it's definitely something I'm interested in.

BONUS QUESTION: is there a way to sort of, manually trigger a re-scan for Lost & Found items? I have discovered in the past things that weren't categorised anywhere, even in L&F, so I'm curious if there could be any more.

Thanks!

-Chris

crosswind

There's only one better solution to fix the issue of "no Categories assigned to the asset items...", use Content Wizard to install the problematic product (as well as the product from 3rd-party sites...).  https://www.daz3d.com/content-wizard

There's no function or script, AFAIK, to "rescan" Lost and Found because the category of Lost and Found is just auto-triggered when the metadata of the asset item are imported into cms database. If you by chance delete Lost and Found category, the only way to find them out is: either re-import all metadata, or run a SQL query from cms database by using an postgreSQL DBA tool ~~