Styles and Icons Gone After Yesterdays Daz Studio Update

Renomista

Yesterday there where a Couple of Updates that coud be only Installed when Dim Started as Admin Including  a 4.9 Update.

Installing product : DAZ Studio 4.9 (Win 64-bit)
Product successfully installed : DAZ Studio 4.9 (Win 64-bit)
Installing product : GoZ for DAZ Studio 4.9+ (Win 64-bit)
Product successfully installed : GoZ for DAZ Studio 4.9+ (Win 64-bit)
Installing product : Measure Metrics for DAZ Studio 4.9+ (Win 64-bit)
Product successfully installed : Measure Metrics for DAZ Studio 4.9+ (Win 64-bit)
Installing product : Photoshop 3D Bridge for DAZ Studio 4.9+ (Win 64-bit)
Product successfully installed : Photoshop 3D Bridge for DAZ Studio 4.9+ (Win 64-bit)
Install Queue finished in 0 min 8.9 sec.

First the Daz Icon (lnk) on the Start Menu had disappeard and i had to manual add ot to the Start Menue again

Now The Non View Port Areas are Completly White (or maybe very light grey), All Icons (including on the Viewport) are gone, Some replaced by som Balck Text some not shown at all (But still working)

If I try to select a Style the list is empty!

DS is completly unusable like this. And thi is a really bad point of time for that!

Please Help!

mjc1016

Sounds like DS was running when the install happened...rerun the install...either manually or with DIM.

Cris Palomino

Running Install Manager as Administrator will cause the same permission issues with PostgreSQL CMS as running Daz Studio as Administrator. It's not a good idea to do this.

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The white UI is due to the update being installed while the application is running. Instead, close Daz Studio. Uninstall. Re-install.

Renomista

Som packages can only be installed when DIM is run as Admin under Win 10

was the same for the 4.8 -> 4.9 Update

Will try the uninstall/install, when i'm back home.

Will I loose workspace setups by uninstalling?

Chohole

In cases where Install Manager needs to elevate permissions (e.g. software, plugins, system paths, etc), the helper application will launch and prompt for permission. Again, Install Manager should not be Run As Administrator, as that will cause issues with PostgreSQL.
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The workspace is stored separately in appdata. No, you will not loose it.
 

Renomista

I know this but giving the Helper Tool Permission does not seem to work.

Had this problem allready when Updateing 4.8->4.9

Only running as Administrator worked... will retry when reinstalling..

Renomista

Also see this Thread:

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/69937/daz-4-9-installation-problems#latest

jestmart

The needing to run as administrator requirement seem to be if you have set security for the OS at higher than default levels as I did after an incident.  Don't install to the Program Files folders and you shouldn't need to run as administrator.

stefan.hums

Exactly. The problems happen with folders protected by Windows UAC. I have installed DAZ Studio and also PostgreSQL on a separate disk partition (drive D), but a folder outside the normal program folders would also do it. The DAZ contents and also the PostgreSQL database are installed on a completely separate HDD. And I could never notice problems with this setup.

Well, I don't use DIM (it is not even installed), updates are done with the standalone installers, and not a single time something got messed up.

Renomista

Ok Problem solved and in the strangest way.

 

When I came home and started DIM again (non-Admin) it showed the 4 update packages as not Installed (but downloaded )

I restaretd install, Helper request came up, everything was installed again. DS is working again.. really really strange....

But anyway Problem solved....

 

Thanks for all the Help!