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going online, Metadata update breaks products

quantum-2653005quantum-2653005 Posts: 51
edited September 2022 in Daz Studio Discussion

I have had to fix numerous products from Daz3D. A few products required update before being usable. As soon as the metadata update was through, all of the fixes of unrelated products were lost.

How do you disable the "update metadata when going online" in daz studio? This is beyond annoying. Bad category assignment, bad or missing icons, bad metadata pathing in dsx files. All undone because of forced metatdata updating.

It's either that or refund all the products with bad content. Having to constantly repair products is not something outlined in the product readme's shown on the product pages.

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  • namffuaknamffuak Posts: 4,145

    Are you installing with Daz Connect? If not - do not go on line; that is ONLY required for installing with connect. And there is NO way to stop Studio from immediately downloading the metadata when you connect to Daz.

  • quantum-2653005quantum-2653005 Posts: 51
    edited September 2022

    No, I only use DIM. One of the products had no contents and the UPDATE button underneath it; from Smart Content dbl-click product, normally the product shows all the categories and contents but this had no content and an UPDATE button underneath the product picture. I clicked UPDATE believing DIM couldn't install the product and as soon as I completed the login it began performing Metadata updates on a lot of my library. Having spent hours (days really), fixing things like broken DSX references to icons, categories, etc, all fixes were wiped out. If vendors made sure (read that QA'd) their installer content before pushing it up then this would be a zero-impact. I'm not talking about Gen1/V4 either, I've been running into bad products in Gen8 NEW products. Just aggravating^10. Product prices should reflect the QA of the items.

    Thanks. I'll keep it off-line.

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  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,485

    You didn't really have to do all those repairs manually (it sounds like). The Content DB Maintenace utility can re-import the metadata for everything from the DIM install manifests, which would not have been touched by Connect.

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    Set your startup options as in the attachment

    StartUp.jpg
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