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The Cloud.

dramenondramenon Posts: 52
edited June 2022 in Daz Studio Discussion

Been awhile and now... the Cloud.

Downloaded with the Central app and content is mapped with "cloud" - Did I just waste a lot of time? It seemed cool at the time cool

Is there a workaound to this and the gigabytes of files that are mapped without "cloud" etc?

And Locating them all everythime is not an option.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,824

    That is content installed through Daz Studio itself, not through Daz Central. If you look in the content Library under Daz Studio Formats is there a folder with your Daz Central installs, not the Daz Connect container (which is a virtual composite of all those numbered folders in the /data/cloud/ folder)?

  • dramenondramenon Posts: 52

    Thank you for your response,

    Not sure I understand how this works anymore surprise...   at the root G:\Daz

    - G:\Daz\Applications\Data\DAZ 3D\Content Database\ContentCluster ... base, global, pg_ etc
    - G:\Daz\ContentCluster ... base, global, pg_ etc
    - G:\Daz\data\cloud ... 1_etc

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,824

    So you have G:\Daz\ set as your Daz Connect Data Directory, where is the content isntalled through other methods (Daz Central/Install manager)? Can you see it in the Content Library pane, under Daz Studio Formats>Anything but Daz Connect?

  • dramenondramenon Posts: 52

    No, I did not even use it for installing this time around surprise this is a new box, and that was the way to install now... so I thought. It seems to work for the most part aside from being ineffecient eg no mass install all my content. 

    In the end it might be moot, some work some do not.

    Thank you for the feedback... My question - if I were to do this again what would be the best away to approach this? 

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    dramenon said:

    No, I did not even use it for installing this time around surprise this is a new box, and that was the way to install now... so I thought. It seems to work for the most part aside from being ineffecient eg no mass install all my content. 

    In the end it might be moot, some work some do not.

    Thank you for the feedback... My question - if I were to do this again what would be the best away to approach this? 

    Didn't use what?

    If I were to start fresh, I would download the manual installation files for DS and install it like any other windows program.
    Then I would use the DIM (DAZ Installation Manager) to install my content to some other (any other) drive than C 

    DAZ Central, which DAZ is trying to push, is just dummied down version of DIM, it's not something better than DIM.

    The most important thing would be never to log in to DS and never giving your DAZ log in information to DS, since that allows DAZ Connect within DS to contact DAZ servers and download metadata updates by itself and as we have seen countless of times here in the forums, fooling people to install products and product updates for no reason, causing the products to be installed twice, taking twice the space on the drives, using non traditional paths for those installations (the cloud folder), suffering from decryption errors and preventing functional DIM installed versions from working.

  • dramenondramenon Posts: 52

    Thank you, I haven't used this stuff in years. Good advice that I will apply.

    Also found...

    "Install Manager iss till avaialble, Daz Central is a different front-end for the same code with simplified options (just a base location)."

     

  • dramenondramenon Posts: 52

    Now that I have walked thru this and with this thread...  Richard Haseltine your comments in the first reply make total sense.

    Thanks again for the replies, PerttiA too yes

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