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DIM won't uninstall manually copied content, despite using Content Package Assist.

vozolgantvozolgant Posts: 207
in The Commons

Imagine you manually copied clothing to your DAZ runtime folder.  Now you want to uninstall it using.  So you use Content Package Assist and/or use the original file to uninstall, but it won't uninstall, because you manually copied it.

For some reason, when you manually copy clothing to your runtime folder, you can't uninstall it, not even with DIM if you have the IM package file.

Anyone know a way to force DIM to always uninstall clothing, even if it was originally manually copied?

Comments

  • James_HJames_H Posts: 1,046

    If you installed to the standard places, you could install it with DIM again, so that DIM knows about it, then uninstall it with DIM. But if you have put it in some custom location, that won't work.

  • LindseyLindsey Posts: 2,001

    If you create a DIM installer with Content Package Assist, you need to install it with DIM, which will allow you to uninstall with DIM.
    Unless I'm misunderstanding your post, manually install products will require a manual uninstall.

  • vozolgantvozolgant Posts: 207
    edited August 2022

    Lindsey said:

    If you create a DIM installer with Content Package Assist, you need to install it with DIM, which will allow you to uninstall with DIM.
    Unless I'm misunderstanding your post, manually install products will require a manual uninstall.

    I can confirm this. No matter what, manually installed products require manual uninstallation.

    I think some products share the same assets, so you can't have DIM uninstall manually installed products; I think that's why what I was trying didn't work.

    Post edited by vozolgant on
  • Mark_e593e0a5Mark_e593e0a5 Posts: 1,598

    DIM keeps track of the files it installes. It will only uninstall what it has installed.

    Even if you do a manual install, and a later DIM run of the same ZIP file would install the very same files, DIM will not overwrite an existing file. Beacuse of that, those files will then not show up in DIM's install records (you can find these in the DAZ3D/InstallManager/Manifest diretory), so it will not uninstall them. The only thing you can do is start with a DII install, with none of the files already existing.

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