Manuaaly installing in Poser Pro

joehend

I thought I had this figured out. It must be simple but not working for me.

I have 2 zips files for some Genesis 2 items- A Pose CF and the Daz zip. How do I install by copying the files in?

So Far I have tried unzipping and adding the files to the Daz 3D Library and the Poser Pro 2014 respective folders that match. But they do not show. Installing the zip from the content tab in the program does not work either. Looks like I cannot use the Install Manager either.

How can I just add the content to the folders and have it work?

joehend

I see some of the issues now are that the zip should have a daz number on the file name and the zip I have doesn't have that number. When I try a zip with the number first the install manager recognizes it.

Now all I need to do is find the number for the product I have.

Richard Haseltine

Why can't you use the Install Manager? However, for a manual install all you need to do is merge the Runtime and Data folders from the two zips with your existing folders (the Data goes beside the Runtime folder, as it will be in the DSON core zip).

SixDs

Joe:

If you are going to be manually installing content from downloaded .zip archives, there is a best practice that I and others here would advocate. Instead of extracting the contents of the .zip directly to the location you want the files, use an intermediate step. Its really not that much extra work and can save you some grief.

Step 1.: Create a new folder in a convenient location on your hard drive outside of your content library purely for the purpose of extracting the contents of .zips. Call it anything you like: "Unzip", "Extract", etc. (I call mine "Staging"). Keep it for reuse.
Step 2.: Extract the contents of your .zip file to your new folder (preferably only one .zip)
Step 3.: Examine the extracted files to observe how the folder structure is organized so you can match that to your existing content folder
Step 4.: Once you see where things need to go, copy the files to your content folder or the appropriate subfolder (I recommend using copy rather than move since sometimes problems can arise using move if files and folders have different security settings)
Step 5.: Delete the files from the temporary folder you created and extract the next zip there.

Rinse and repeat.

The purpose here is to allow a check of the internal folder structure within the zip archive to ensure everything is going to go were it belongs before putting it into your content folder. You could, of course, use Windows's file manager's built-in abitity to examine the contents of the archives instead, but the method I describe is pretty failsafe. I have frequently encountered situations where extracting directly to my content folder has messed it up due to quirks in .zip archive folders, so I no longer do that.