Paths are not honored between DAZ studio and DAZ Central.

dark_shneiderit

I have used plain DAZ to download and install my products; they are on an external drive.

After formatting my main drive; I was about to install DAZ studio again, then I saw that DAZ central was out; so I installed it and set the install path on my D drive; which is my external drive I use for 3d content.

When DAZ Central got installed, it automatically installed DAZ studio BUT didn't ask me where to install; so I ended up with DAZ studio installed on my C drive, and all the paths to content are now relative to that drive.

And now, here is where things go pretty crazy.

- In DAZ Studio, I see no installed content; even if content preferences I have my D drive set for content for CMS cluster directory, DAZ connect data, DAZ studio formats and Poser formats. I have about 40 GB of content installed in my D drive folder, which was downloaded from my previous install of DAZ studio; so the content should be there for sure

- In Daz Central I see nothing installed, not even DAZ Studio (which launched right after Daz Central installed it as first thing, mind you). In the DAZ Central settings I set the application path to wherever it was installed originally (so on C/DAZ folder); not sure if there is a bug with Daz Central not being able to see the installation it just did.

Basically now I would like to understand how do I sync all the content between those 2 apps? I can't use C drive, so it has to be D drive; but it seems that neither DAZ studio nor Daz Central are able to see my installed content.

Richard Haseltine

How did you previously install Daz Studio? When you say the content was isntalled with "plain DAZ" do you mean Install Manager or Daz Studio itself?

ShelLuser

My suggestion: replace Daz Central with DIM, see this link: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/382131/daz-install-manager-dim-1-4-0-67-now-available-updated

DC is fine for "simple" installations where things mostly rely on default settings or maybe having a base directory moved to another drive. But the moment when you start customizing things in more detail then it can't cope (at least that's my impression based on posts on this forum as well as some testing with DC).

See, while DIM might be a little trickier to configure it also provides a lot more control. I can tell it where to download packages (drive D on my end), I can specify the location for my manifest files, where and if to place shortcuts, where to install updates, where my CMS is located (and which port it's using) and... I can set up where my Daz 3D library is at and which applications I'm using (DS, Bryce, Hexagon and even ZBrush).

You can't do any of this with Daz Central... as such my suggestion above. Stop using it and grab DIM instead.