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  • alexhcowleyalexhcowley Posts: 2,386

    MelanieL said:

    alexhcowley said:

    Quick trivia question: where can I find the installer for DIM so I can copy it across to my offline render PC and install the latest DAZ studio beta?  It's not in the same directory as all the other download files.

    Incidentally, I've unticked the "delete package once installed" option in DIM so it should still be lurking around somewhere.

    Thanks,

    Alex. 

    In your Product Library here: https://www.daz3d.com/downloader/customer/files#prod_50873 (of if you are wanting the Mac version here: https://www.daz3d.com/downloader/customer/files#prod_50875 ) 

    Belated but profuse thanks.

    Cheers,

    Alex. 

  • Robert FreiseRobert Freise Posts: 4,444

    OK who broke it It no longer saves the display order

    Every time I open it now the display order is set to busiest first instead of A-Z like it used to

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,115

    I have no issues with the display order staying where I left it when I closed DIM. I am uninstalling from one drive to a new one, and the 'Installed' tab is set to 'Install Date : Oldest First' and 'Ready to Install' to 'Name : A to Z'. The 'Ready to Download' tab is generally set to 'Order Date : Recent First'.

    My only issue has been that if I don't stop, close down, and reboot the computer, some files of only less than a 50 mbs can take over an hour to uninstall and yet zips through reinstalling. Which might be a good thing, my mouse hand last night felt abused and terribly in pain. At first it was some poses, but late yesterday it was some packages that changed colors of products. And two of the oldest files that had damaged contents really caused a big issue at the beginning. Those I deleted the .zip files and downloaded fresh files.

    My DIM is version 1.4.1.69 on my MacBook Pro with OS Sonoma 14.5.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,886

    Robert Freise said:

    OK who broke it It no longer saves the display order

    Every time I open it now the display order is set to busiest first instead of A-Z like it used to

    Sounds as if something is blocking acess or reverting changes to the .ini file in (for Windows)

    %appdata%/daz 3d/InstallManager/UserAccounts/

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,886

    memcneil70 said:

    I have no issues with the display order staying where I left it when I closed DIM. I am uninstalling from one drive to a new one, and the 'Installed' tab is set to 'Install Date : Oldest First' and 'Ready to Install' to 'Name : A to Z'. The 'Ready to Download' tab is generally set to 'Order Date : Recent First'.

    My only issue has been that if I don't stop, close down, and reboot the computer, some files of only less than a 50 mbs can take over an hour to uninstall and yet zips through reinstalling. Which might be a good thing, my mouse hand last night felt abused and terribly in pain. At first it was some poses, but late yesterday it was some packages that changed colors of products. And two of the oldest files that had damaged contents really caused a big issue at the beginning. Those I deleted the .zip files and downloaded fresh files.

    My DIM is version 1.4.1.69 on my MacBook Pro with OS Sonoma 14.5.

    Security sioftware (or OS security settings)? Some kinds of anti-ransomware protection can cause issues, though mainly with installing through Daz Studio (and other, unrelated tools that change their files)..

  • Robert FreiseRobert Freise Posts: 4,444
    edited July 1

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Robert Freise said:

    OK who broke it It no longer saves the display order

    Every time I open it now the display order is set to busiest first instead of A-Z like it used to

    Sounds as if something is blocking acess or reverting changes to the .ini file in (for Windows)

    %appdata%/daz 3d/InstallManager/UserAccounts/

    OK that would have to be due to either Win11 update ot the last DIM update which is when this started

    Nothing else on the machine gets changed/updated other than the Nvidia graphics driver

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,886

    Robert Freise said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Robert Freise said:

    OK who broke it It no longer saves the display order

    Every time I open it now the display order is set to busiest first instead of A-Z like it used to

    Sounds as if something is blocking acess or reverting changes to the .ini file in (for Windows)

    %appdata%/daz 3d/InstallManager/UserAccounts/

    OK that would have to be due to either Win11 update ot the last DIM update which is when this started

    Nothing else on the machine gets changed/updated other than the Nvidia graphics driver

    Can you tell if the .ini file is being updated? Have you checked your security software's logs to see if it is doing anything with that file?

  • Robert FreiseRobert Freise Posts: 4,444

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Robert Freise said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Robert Freise said:

    OK who broke it It no longer saves the display order

    Every time I open it now the display order is set to busiest first instead of A-Z like it used to

    Sounds as if something is blocking acess or reverting changes to the .ini file in (for Windows)

    %appdata%/daz 3d/InstallManager/UserAccounts/

    OK that would have to be due to either Win11 update ot the last DIM update which is when this started

    Nothing else on the machine gets changed/updated other than the Nvidia graphics driver

    Can you tell if the .ini file is being updated? Have you checked your security software's logs to see if it is doing anything with that file?

    Shows to have been modified yesterday

    No security software issues

    OK I just opened it and everything was as it should be don't know if it matters but I don't have anything to download at this time 

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,115

    Richard Haseltine said:

    memcneil70 said:

    I have no issues with the display order staying where I left it when I closed DIM. I am uninstalling from one drive to a new one, and the 'Installed' tab is set to 'Install Date : Oldest First' and 'Ready to Install' to 'Name : A to Z'. The 'Ready to Download' tab is generally set to 'Order Date : Recent First'.

    My only issue has been that if I don't stop, close down, and reboot the computer, some files of only less than a 50 mbs can take over an hour to uninstall and yet zips through reinstalling. Which might be a good thing, my mouse hand last night felt abused and terribly in pain. At first it was some poses, but late yesterday it was some packages that changed colors of products. And two of the oldest files that had damaged contents really caused a big issue at the beginning. Those I deleted the .zip files and downloaded fresh files.

    My DIM is version 1.4.1.69 on my MacBook Pro with OS Sonoma 14.5.

    Security sioftware (or OS security settings)? Some kinds of anti-ransomware protection can cause issues, though mainly with installing through Daz Studio (and other, unrelated tools that change their files)..

    I have Malware Bytes and it has never had an issue with any DAZ product, or DIM function. Right now the product that is that is cramping uninstall is MMX Resource Saver Shaders Collection 5 for Iray 2 of 2, 1 of 2 slowed everything down from before that. And it was like third or fourth from the beginning of my morning. This particular one is 413.1 MBs. 1 of 2 is 463.7 MB in Ready to Install. (I have noticed a large range of size changes from package sizes to installed sizes in more modern products.)

    Could how products are packaged affect how they may be uninstalled? Or is it just more difficult to extract files with a lot of lines inserted all over my Runtime? As opposed to a product with a Prop with just Textures? (Over-simplification I know.)

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,886

    memcneil70 said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    memcneil70 said:

    I have no issues with the display order staying where I left it when I closed DIM. I am uninstalling from one drive to a new one, and the 'Installed' tab is set to 'Install Date : Oldest First' and 'Ready to Install' to 'Name : A to Z'. The 'Ready to Download' tab is generally set to 'Order Date : Recent First'.

    My only issue has been that if I don't stop, close down, and reboot the computer, some files of only less than a 50 mbs can take over an hour to uninstall and yet zips through reinstalling. Which might be a good thing, my mouse hand last night felt abused and terribly in pain. At first it was some poses, but late yesterday it was some packages that changed colors of products. And two of the oldest files that had damaged contents really caused a big issue at the beginning. Those I deleted the .zip files and downloaded fresh files.

    My DIM is version 1.4.1.69 on my MacBook Pro with OS Sonoma 14.5.

    Security sioftware (or OS security settings)? Some kinds of anti-ransomware protection can cause issues, though mainly with installing through Daz Studio (and other, unrelated tools that change their files)..

    I have Malware Bytes and it has never had an issue with any DAZ product, or DIM function. Right now the product that is that is cramping uninstall is MMX Resource Saver Shaders Collection 5 for Iray 2 of 2, 1 of 2 slowed everything down from before that. And it was like third or fourth from the beginning of my morning. This particular one is 413.1 MBs. 1 of 2 is 463.7 MB in Ready to Install. (I have noticed a large range of size changes from package sizes to installed sizes in more modern products.)

    Could how products are packaged affect how they may be uninstalled? Or is it just more difficult to extract files with a lot of lines inserted all over my Runtime? As opposed to a product with a Prop with just Textures? (Over-simplification I know.)

    Well, lots of files are lots of operations (so if there was a delay for each step, such as a security check, that would tend to add up).

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,115

    Well, the MMX file is now at 97%, so I will be back in action soon. 

    Thanks Richard.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,050

    ..IM losing saved password again   The Remember Me box is checked but have to keep reinserting the password from  my password locker everytime it opens.  

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,886

    kyoto kid said:

    ..IM losing saved password again   The Remember Me box is checked but have to keep reinserting the password from  my password locker everytime it opens.  

    Which suggests an issue with the .ini file thats tores details of settings. Is it also losing other settings and options, or just the password?

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,115

    Last night I left DIM with the 'Installed' tab set to 'Install Date : Oldest First' yet this morning when I woke it up, it was set at 'Status : Busy First'. Thankfully I had some coffee in me before I uninstalled brand new purchases, just to reinstall them into the same drive they were already in. 

  • Robert FreiseRobert Freise Posts: 4,444

    memcneil70 said:

    Last night I left DIM with the 'Installed' tab set to 'Install Date : Oldest First' yet this morning when I woke it up, it was set at 'Status : Busy First'. Thankfully I had some coffee in me before I uninstalled brand new purchases, just to reinstall them into the same drive they were already in. 

    I've had mine change from A-z to Busy First several times 

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,115

    Yeah Robert, I am tired of this. Maybe one of the wonderful script writers could come up with a program for DIM that would transfer all your runtime from one drive to another when you outgrow your existing one? I don't know how many folks I have seen on the forums ask about this over the years. Often from when it was accidentally set-up on the C: drive or on a 1Tb drive. But with files getting larger all the time, drives are being filled up faster now. Of course it may not be possible.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,886

    Daz Studio doesn't care about anything that would be chnaged by transferring the content (the CMS would need a bit of help), only DIM cares about absolute locations.

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,115

    Yeah, that is what I am worried about. Not a programmer and so I am doing it the hard way. But on the upside I am reminding myself of some great products that I have bought in the past and enjoyed. It is just some of the pose and shader packs (not all) that are driving me nuts. 

  • murgatroyd314murgatroyd314 Posts: 1,520

    I really wish there was at least a minimal degree of intelligence to those [expletive deleted] ads. No one benefits in any way from showing me an ad for the product I just started downloading.

  • Robert FreiseRobert Freise Posts: 4,444

    murgatroyd314 said:

    I really wish there was at least a minimal degree of intelligence to those [expletive deleted] ads. No one benefits in any way from showing me an ad for the product I just started downloading.

    Don't like the ads period

    Interesting thing is I don't get them on my desktop just on my laptop 

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,886

    memcneil70 said:

    Yeah, that is what I am worried about. Not a programmer and so I am doing it the hard way. But on the upside I am reminding myself of some great products that I have bought in the past and enjoyed. It is just some of the pose and shader packs (not all) that are driving me nuts. 

    Sorry, I misread your question - if you have the zips still you can update the install directory then seelct everything (or everything using the old path if you have already installed some stuff - you can use the filter box for this) and choose the right-click Reinstall using Current Directory command (I can't recall the exact wording off hand, but that is close enough to identify it)

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,886

    Robert Freise said:

    murgatroyd314 said:

    I really wish there was at least a minimal degree of intelligence to those [expletive deleted] ads. No one benefits in any way from showing me an ad for the product I just started downloading.

    Don't like the ads period

    Interesting thing is I don't get them on my desktop just on my laptop 

    What ads?

  • Robert FreiseRobert Freise Posts: 4,444
    edited July 5

    There are two one at the top and one at bottom

     

    DIM Ads.jpg
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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,886

    OK, notifications rather than ads (yes, they are often promoting products - though not always - but they are not external ads such as the ones that ran on the forum and gallery, which is what I thought was meant).

  • Robert FreiseRobert Freise Posts: 4,444

    Well they're annoying and they slow DIM down to a crawl on the laptop and it's slow enough as it is. At least they don't appear on the desktop PC

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,886

    Robert Freise said:

    Well they're annoying and they slow DIM down to a crawl on the laptop and it's slow enough as it is. At least they don't appear on the desktop PC

    I can't see how they would slow DIM down, the one at the top is just text and the other (which appears only after starting to download) is pretty small, and doesn't switch that often to require a fresh download of a smallish image.

  • nomad-ads_8ecd56922enomad-ads_8ecd56922e Posts: 1,951

    At that, you can turn the lower one off by mousing over the upper right corner of the ad and clicking at the little underscore symbol that comes up, and hide the ad display that way for the rest of the DIM session.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,886

    nomad-ads_8ecd56922e said:

    At that, you can turn the lower one off by mousing over the upper right corner of the ad and clicking at the little underscore symbol that comes up, and hide the ad display that way for the rest of the DIM session.

    or until you start a fresh lot of downloads, at least.

  • murgatroyd314murgatroyd314 Posts: 1,520

    nomad-ads_8ecd56922e said:

    At that, you can turn the lower one off by mousing over the upper right corner of the ad and clicking at the little underscore symbol that comes up, and hide the ad display that way for the rest of the DIM session.

    Not for the rest of the session, just until the next time you click to start a download. And the option doesn't become available until about 6 seconds after the downloads start. 

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,115
    edited July 15

    Not sure how I missed this feature of DIM before but I know about it now! I found Content Path Shortcuts on the 'Install' tab. I have no idea why or how it changed from F: My DAZ 3D Content to E: My DAZ 3D Library, but it did. I thought I should alert folks to this. This issue has caused me three days of massive uninstall and reinstall of the affected products. Mary

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