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Why did DAZ default install box pop up?

davesodaveso Posts: 7,150
edited February 2022 in The Commons

I have DIM and DAZ Studio installed on my system for quite a long time and have been using it. I did have some hard drive problems a week or so ago, and now this box is popping up in DIM wanting me to install even DAZ Studio again. 
Troubling to say the least, but I just installed a product, it appeared to go into DS, but when I tried to use it a box popped up staing the files could not be found. 

I think my installation is caput?

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  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,150

    oh ..just realized DIM is not seeing most of my installed products within DS ..only shows 34 installed. Looks like time to start over from scratch?
    OR IS MY CURRENT INSTALLATION REPAIRABLE? 

  • felisfelis Posts: 4,627

    It is the manifest files that teels DIM what is installed.

    Find where they are and if DIM points to the right place.

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,150

    felis said:

    It is the manifest files that teels DIM what is installed.

    Find where they are and if DIM points to the right place.

    thanks -yes, I have my DS and DIM installed to D drive. For whatever reason, DIM now show everything to C drive. I'll change all of the locations and see what happens.  

  • PhatmartinoPhatmartino Posts: 287
    edited February 2022

    I just went to install the current beta to try it alongside 4.15... First time I tried a beta so I was a little clueless, but after going through the process in DIM of un-hiding the "Public Build" stuff, selecting them in "Ready to Install" and hitting go, for whatever reason, a box/list exactly like the one you pictured came up saying these assets were necessary, etc. I thought, ok, I'm not familiar with this process so I hit OK... Then DIM installed the current General Release 4.16....3 or whatever, over my 4.15, and didn't install the beta at all. Not sure if it's a related problem at all, it just caght my eye when your screenshot showed the exact same odd looking list I had never seen before, and it was indeed intending on doing the normal update I was putting off.

     

    Looking again in Ready to Download, all the Beta stuff was still sitting there, so I did then successfully install the beta, too. Both seem to be working fine on a little older i7 with an 8GB 2060s. Haven't gotten around to finding out where I stand with Ghost Lights which was one of my main concerns with any updating...

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  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,150

    now DS itself has nothing in the smart content pane ven though the content in manager is pointing to correct location. strange things going on. 

  • felisfelis Posts: 4,627

    Try Content DB Maintenance > Re-import metadata

  • cridgitcridgit Posts: 1,757
    edited May 2022

    Redacted

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,436

    cridgit said:

    Hi Daveso

    I feel your pain; going through exactly the same right now. My HDD croaked but all my content was installed to SSD. You'd think it would simply be a matter of installing DIM and DAZ Studio/CMS on the new computer and point them to the SSD. But that would be too easy! Here's what I've had to deal with (not saying I've solved all of this but maybe something will work for you):

    1. Install DIM then use it to install Studio and Postgres including default content on new PC (the popup window you showed above). Realize afterwards that DIM auto installs to C: and creates default content libraries, which I don't want because all my content is on SSD. Try to change content library directories in DIM and Studio but it keeps creating stupid My Documents/My DAZ3D Library folder.

    2. Try to re-import metadata to get all my DAZ Connect content in Studio. Fail miserably. Apparently you can't reimport existing content into DAZ Connect.

    3. Login to DAZ Connect and start installing all products, praying it won't redownload 800 GB. It goes quickly at first but slows down ater 24 hours and practically stops after 36 hours / 100GB. Check the log see it has been trying to download 1 product for 6 hours and keeps getting connection errors. File a ticket and ask for help on forum. Best advice to ditch DAZ Connect and use DIM.

    4. Uninstall all DAZ Connect content. Try to remove DAZ Connect from content library folders and realize I can't. Nice one, DAZ!

    5. Install my list of 6000 products in DIM. Turns out that includes software (which I'd already installed) plus tons of other stuff I downloaded but didn't want to install e.g. Hexagon, Bryce, tutorials etc etc. Stop the installation and spend 6 hours filtering out the DAZ Studio content (not legacy, not poser, not StudioCF etc). Install again this time it installs everything in 10 hours. Thumbnails not showing up in Smart Content. Ask for help on the forum. Realize my DIM may have held onto old installer archives.

    6. Uninstall DIM content again. Download thumbnails and refresh package data. Now I'm installing again - don't know if the thumbnails will show up again.

    Anybody that says you can easily port existing content across to a new computer is a moron. I've been fiddling with this fing shirt for 5 days.

    EDIT: Oh and i just disabled the check automatically button bottom left on that popup. My life is better because of it.

    and yet I was able to port my content across fairly easily, though I hadn't lost the HD and did have a back up of the database. The only snag was that the system was fussy about where I puit the backed-up database files.

  • cridgitcridgit Posts: 1,757
    edited May 2022

    Redacted

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,436

    The database isn't user-editable, or even user-accessible, everything happens behind the scenes. It's like settings, so I guess that is whjy it defaults to that location. It's also fussy about folder permissions.

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