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Self-Inflicted Wound, hit uninstall button on DIM :(

DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,225
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Uninstalled many, many product packages before I realized what I had done and cleared/stopped.

sad

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,599
    Diomede said:

    Uninstalled many, many product packages before I realized what I had done and cleared/stopped.

    sad

    do you delete your zips after installation?

    if not it's easy to reverse

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,225
    edited November 2020
    WendyLuvsCatz said:
    Diomede said:

    Uninstalled many, many product packages before I realized what I had done and cleared/stopped.

    sad

    do you delete your zips after installation?

    if not it's easy to reverse

    I delete in the interests of storage.  :(

     

    More insult to injury, I am getting the DIM download failures  sad

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,599

    yeah not a good time to be making that mistake 

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,905

    Yes, the DIM is acting up badly this morning. Some things install and others don't, and there's no rhyme or reason. Exiting and coming back in again got a few of mine to load while others stubbornly resisted. 

  • NylonGirlNylonGirl Posts: 1,939

    I offer my condolences to your product library.

  • CenobiteCenobite Posts: 206
    Diomede said:
    WendyLuvsCatz said:
    Diomede said:

    Uninstalled many, many product packages before I realized what I had done and cleared/stopped.

    sad

    do you delete your zips after installation?

    if not it's easy to reverse

    I delete in the interests of storage.  :(

     

    More insult to injury, I am getting the DIM download failures  sad

    Make sure the DIM is in the correct file path to your new drive download location, Setting DAZ up on a drive that isn't C can be a bit of an issue, when manually installing files from other sites like Render Erotica these files have to be placed in the library directly, can be done in a few area's of the studio also means you can have multiple files in several locations duplicating, so what i mean is you can load those files in with your other content in the manual file section or you can create whole new directories depending how much you want to sit there and data base all day doing this fiddily boring shit catagorizing products in file trees: "'l'll leave that one for the DAZ people" . The Dim and DAZ Central content usually installs in a seperate area from the manually installed library, some content instore doesn't fully load all materials via the DIM or Central so you might have to manually extract and install those files for all props & shaders to show up, Gets annoying when you have 1000's of different items some of them need to be fully unpacked manually because someone didn't install all materials via the other two installations.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,320
    edited November 2020

    If you decide to start keeping your DIM product installers locally, you should have a seperate SSD or HD as big or bigger than the source disk to make weekly full backups to too. The $100 or $200 for the extra storage is well worth it to avoid the time & repeated download failures you are about to experience.

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  • CenobiteCenobite Posts: 206

    Storage is mass now days, you'll need windows 10 pro for expanded HD. Plug in two Terra Byte pretty cheap, SSD are cheap light and usually newer boards will have a few slots for faster SSD aswell as plugs to jack more in. good SDD will cost around $300 or $400 in my country, look for the EVO SSD or variant of i'm using a few EVO 970 NVMe M.2 SSD which plug directly into the board about the size of a usb stick but hold 2 Terra Byte storage, you get the larger SSD evo that can plug into the power and mainboard like an old school spool drive. The only thing that spins in my pc are a few fans for cooling, rest is liquid cooled. Spinning HD are larger but slower, prone to break down due to rotations of the disc inside them.

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,316

    Out of curiosity, if you do store your installers and there is an update later down the road, how do you handle that? I have been deleting my download files as they wiped out my C: drive, and have since had to move my DS files to F: drives, one an external on a laptop.

    I was in a MicroCenter last week and there were sales on external drives going on, and I have had flyers from Best Buy also. So it looks like with the Christmas season ramping up, it is a good time to buy higher price items.

  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019
    memcneil70 said:

    Out of curiosity, if you do store your installers and there is an update later down the road, how do you handle that? I have been deleting my download files as they wiped out my C: drive, and have since had to move my DS files to F: drives, one an external on a laptop.

    I was in a MicroCenter last week and there were sales on external drives going on, and I have had flyers from Best Buy also. So it looks like with the Christmas season ramping up, it is a good time to buy higher price items.

    They will simply overwrite the old downloaded file.

  • ed3Ded3D Posts: 2,299
    Diomede said:
    WendyLuvsCatz said:
    Diomede said:

    Uninstalled many, many product packages before I realized what I had done and cleared/stopped.

    sad

    do you delete your zips after installation?

    if not it's easy to reverse

    I delete in the interests of storage.  :(

     

    More insult to injury, I am getting the DIM download failures  sad

    ~  did'nt save Zips in an Back-up of a any kind ??  ~

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,225

    Thanks for the empathy and suggestions everyone.  May have taken most of an afternoon, but I've got everything installed again.  Even the files that originally had download failures.

    smileysmiley Happy day, indeed.

  • mwokeemwokee Posts: 1,275
    On my computer there is a "Uninstall Year 2020" button but it's greyed out. :-(
  • ed3Ded3D Posts: 2,299
    mwokee said:
    On my computer there is a "Uninstall Year 2020" button but it's greyed out. :-(

    ~  and If it goes working _  post about it   ~ thanx

  • AllenArtAllenArt Posts: 7,172

    Thankfully, I save every single zip file on my external hard drive (because I can never be sure my content will be available forever, I take it upon myself to back it up multiple places), therefore this couldn't happen to me. I do feel your pain though :(

    Laurie

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,979
    ed3D said:
    mwokee said:
    On my computer there is a "Uninstall Year 2020" button but it's greyed out. :-(

    ~  and If it goes working _  post about it   ~ thanx

    Well the 2021 update is coming soon anyway.  Hopefully with less bugs.

  • ed3Ded3D Posts: 2,299
    edited November 2020

    ~  yeah , Hopefully  _  But was supposeing  to roll-back to previous version  ~

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,599
    edited November 2020

    unless it is like Carrara and stuck for the next 8 years 

    oh Mac users, does Carrara work on Big Sur cheeky

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  • NylonGirlNylonGirl Posts: 1,939
    mwokee said:
    On my computer there is a "Uninstall Year 2020" button but it's greyed out. :-(

    I believe the future lists that file as a required resource.

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