What is this?!!
Epic82
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These two problems have just appeared this week. I don’t know how these problems began, but it seems they’re connected to something that’s appeared in my Edit Preferences.
One, when I attempt to log into Daz Connect, my Norton Security software gives me a notification that it has blocked a suspicious action from DAZStudio.exe, and the severity level of this threat is high. So, I closed Daz so it wouldn’t finish logging in. I have no problems logging in to Daz Central or the Install Manager. This only happened when I attempted to log in to Daz Connect, which I almost never use. Two, and I discovered this a few days ago, when I load a scene I've created and saved in my Scene folder into Daz Studio and make a change to that scene, Daz Studio, instead of saving the change, brings up my Scene folder so I can save my previously made scene as a new scene. After I save the scene as a new scene, I can save all of the changes I make to that scene as normal. But if I close the scene and load it again, I have to go through the same process again if I want to save any changes I make to the scene. I skimmed through the forums to find out if anyone else has had this problem, and all I could find was this thread where Richard Haseltine says Save updates a file if the author name of the file matches the author name in the application. So, I went to my Edit Preferences and then clicked on edit and found what you see in the image I have attached to this post. The image is of this strange sequence in my Preferences and Authorship Information pop-up windows. I don't know exactly what script this is, but it's clearly not English, which is my native language. I don’t know where this has come from, and I’m thinking it might be the source of my problems. Does anyone have any idea what this is and how to fix this issue? This is making me nervous.
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Can't see all the text but the visible part looks like binary code which can look like that when viewed in a text editor like here. But from the structure - same few characters being repeated again and again - it doesn't look like it's capable of doing anything that makes sense in this context, if the whole text looks like that. Copying it into a hex editor may give a clue about what it is.
As for getting the save dialog when you want to save a scene you have opened and edited, I've experienced that too, it happens when the scene was originally saved under a different author name than the one in the DS you're currently using.
That which Richard H is talking about is something else (I encountered it myself once), it means that if you haven't set the author name it will always open the "save as" dialog when you try to save a scene (not sure if it applies to other save options also).
I've seen something like that reported before [HERE] - I don't think there was ever a full explanation of why it happened, but you should be able to simply change it to the correct name you want to use.
Thank you for your reply. Do I simply put in my username? I've done that (by putting in epic82), and I still get the save dialog. I've never paid attention to my author name. Is there any way to find out exactly what it is?
What does it say if you go to Edit > Preferences > General Author?
Hello felis. I've attached a screenshot of what it currently says.
Mine does that too, but not every time. Just now and then.
You can use anything, AFAIK it's just to ID who made the render, like a signature on a painting.