How Do You Stop Daz Studio 4 Removing All Injections from All Saved Scenes?

Doc

The title says it all, and it is driving me INSANE.

I work with a lot of saved scenes. I set up sets and save them as scenes, I set up characters and save them as scenes, I set up everything so that I can build a library of merge-able assets as and when I need them. This enables immensely fast production and has been my method of working for years until I hit the brick wall that is Daz 4, the most unstable version of the program yet.

Every now and then Daz will suddenly just go LOL, REMOVE ALL INJECTIONS FROM ALL SAVE FILES and all saved scenes will have the morph injections missing from all models, and I'll have to re-inject them all one-by-one and save them. Once re-injected and saved, the file will retain that information - but only until the next time Daz decides to LOL, REMOVE ALL INJECTIONS FROM ALL SAVE FILES.

There is no warning for when this happens, no error message - everything is business-as-usual until suddenly one morning, all injections have been removed from all files.

So obviously it's an issue with how Daz is generally functioning, or how it's set up on my PC, as a posed to something wrong in a specific file, but can anyone think of what kind of root cause may be making this happen?

EDT:

A few more details I've just thought about. --- The models in question are M4 & V4 (believe it or not, people still use 'em!) - but I've noticed it's ONLY the main main main injections for those models; INJ Base V4, INJ Creature V4, INJ Morphs++ V4, INJ Mucles V4, INJ SheFreak4, INJ Stephanie 4 & INJ The Girl 4.

It looks like it is ONLY those 7. - For example, I have a V4 with RM Pippa injected. The model has been stripped of all aforementioned injections apart from RM Pippa. So what the cheese n' chops is going on, here??

Richard Haseltine

Daz [Studio] 4 is a very broad range - exactly which version is this?

How are you managing morphs - by the DzCreateExPFiles-whatever4 or via PowerLoader (the dialogue that opens in DS to let you seelct which morphs to load)?

Are you getting an error on load?

Doc

Hi, Richard.

I'm not massively technical (just a bricks and boards user) so sorry if I can't answer your question concisely. - The actual files fluctuate in terms of age, some of them are 10+ years old, some of them are new, but they were .Daz's that were loaded and saved in .Duf format to suit Daz Studio 4.

Powerloader is what DAZ used initially when I built the scene files years ago. Whenever this issue occurs, I re-install their injections for the modelsvia pose>DAZ's Victoria 4>Morph Injections in the library.

I do know that although they're digital files, Daz items tend to decay over time, so maybe they're just old saves struggling, but it doesn't make a lot of sense that all files together go through the same thing, that's what's throwing me.

Bejaymac

Hmm old .DAZ files, I wonder if the morph deltas didn't get loaded from the .DSD files when you re-saved them in DS4, I also wonder if the DUF files are pointing to the old DSD file and just can't use them.