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DIM is DUM - SOLVED

azoohouseazoohouse Posts: 664
edited December 2018 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

Or, it's just me being dumb. Here's what happened... I'm half awake with full cup of hot tea booting up the ole computer for my morning read. I go to set the tea down on the desk missing it entirely as it tips over and spills into my computer's fans. The entire computer insides get showered with sticky sweet tea and that's the end of it all.

Fast forward...new computer and thankfully my Daz content was mostly on an external HD, Yay! I installed latest DazStudio and DIM. I am able to see and use my content on the external drive. DIM however, takes forever to load and when it does everything I ever bought is in the Install tab. 13860 files to be exact! So, is there a way to make DIM smart again without redownloading? I'm sure this has been answered before somewhere but I was unable to find it. Thanks in advance to anyone who can answer or point me into the right forum post. Cheers!

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,770

    Sounds like it lost the Manifests folder, which is how it knows what was installed. If you used the default location that was probably on your C: drive, in the Public Documents folder, so unless you have a back-up I'm afraid you will have to reinstall - if you'd moved it (which previously involved editing the account.ini file) just pojt DIM to its new location, which is now in settings, and you should be good.

  • azoohouseazoohouse Posts: 664
    Richard Haseltine said:

    Sounds like it lost the Manifests folder, which is how it knows what was installed. If you used the default location that was probably on your C: drive, in the Public Documents folder, so unless you have a back-up I'm afraid you will have to reinstall - if you'd moved it (which previously involved editing the account.ini file) just pojt DIM to its new location, which is now in settings, and you should be good.

    Thanks Richard. You're right, Manifests folder was empty. Maybe, I could recover it from the old (sticky) C: drive but I hate to put it in my new shiny computer, lol. I'll figure something out. Happy holidays to you!

  • gitika1gitika1 Posts: 948

    Did you have (on your old computer) DIM set up to save the packages after install or delete?  Were they saved in the default location and/or your external drive?  I have them kept and then on a back-up drive, so that I won't have to sit through days of downloading again.  If you find that you have IM.zip files on your external drive, then you won't have to download all of the files again.

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