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Windows Update crashed PC and now DAZ won't work

gerterasmusgerterasmus Posts: 287
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

OK, so last night a Windows update crashed my PC, and I just got a black screen saying it can't find my desktop. Tried all the fixes on the interwebs, and the only one that worked was resetting the PC and re-install Windows 10, with the option of keeping all my files, it deleted all my programs.

No Worries, I'll just install DAZ again... not.

Open DAZ and it can't find postgreSQL cms. Close DAZ, install postgreSQL cms. Open DAZ - connecting to cms - upgrading cms...

And that's where it stays stuck. DAZ won't open. Tried all the fixes on the threads with no joy.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Comments

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,443

    It may be a permissions issue - can you access the Content Cluster folder,

    %AppData%/daz 3d/cms/ContentCluster/

  • gerterasmusgerterasmus Posts: 287

    I did everything recommended in the forums, including the ContentCluster thing.

    Eventually resorted to copy my content labrary to my desktop and renamed it. Did a search for DAZ in file explorer and deleted everything it found.

    Copied everything back to my content library. Re-installed Daz and DIM, Started Daz up and got the same issue. Shut it down, restarted and then it worked.

    Did the re-import metadata thing and good to go, except for one thing. Only stuff I installed through DIM shows up. Everything I installed through Daz has to be re-downloaded again.

    Is there a way to fix this without downloading everything again?

  • gerterasmusgerterasmus Posts: 287
    So I'm still busy downloading all of my content, but noticed something. When I open some products, there's nothing there. For instance, Skies of Iradiance. When I double click on the product icon, it opens,but there's nothing in there. I right click and go to the contents folder and everything's there. It just doesn't show in DAZ. I've tried updating metadata, re-import metadata, start cms. Nothing works.
  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,822

    Are you sure your content libraries are setup properly?

  • gerterasmusgerterasmus Posts: 287
    Yep. It's products that I'm re-installing. Some of them just show they're empty. Most of them work fine, but here and there there's stuff that just don't want to work.
  • gerterasmusgerterasmus Posts: 287
    Still downloading products and still getting some with missing files that are actually in the content library.
  • DannisWritesDannisWrites Posts: 51

    I read an article recently on one of the major PC mag sites suggesting I not download Windows updates right when they come out. I'm sorry for your misfortune, but very glad I've got delayed updates set up for Win 10.

    I've been having problems with missing content and NOTHING showing in my Content Directory, despite deleting links til they were below 10. There is a problem with Win 10 losing files, only to have them show up later, so I've kind of put up with missing content for years.

    Today I went through Winterbrose's fine tutorial on managing content and decided to consolidate my many runtimes on my remote drive. As part of that tutorial he showed how the DIM lets you see if there's metadata or not. Quite by accident, I found that once I selected all 2090 of my products, there's an option to save it to a spreadsheet. I did. When in it, I looked to see what fields were there. I included all of the options. There's a column for Installed Directory. Man, what a mess! I have reorganized my runtimes several times over the years. Paths were a mixed bag of directories I don't even have any more! There were over 1500 empty directories when I uninstalled everything!! No WONDER I can't find my stuff!!

    I thought this little bit of info might help someone. Y'all take care!

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