I’m using DS4Pro, and in my content directory, my categories have suddenly disappeared, and searching the database or files does nothing. I suspect this has something the do with the content management service, but I’ve started that manually, restarted DS4, still nothing. I think I even rebooted the computer once or twice.
I don’t see that my firewall is blocking the CMS, but I can’t be sure. Does anyone have a solution for this? Thanks.
What OS and what security software are you using? In Windows, if you pull up the task manager, check the box for “show tasks from all users”, you can see if the CMS is running.
Got it. For some reason I had disabled CMS in msconfig. I thought that would only stop it from loading at startup, but apparently it prevented it from being enable at all.
In Services.msc set it to Manual rather than Automatic.
Could you be more specific? Will that make the non-meta’d content appear in the directories??
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On an unrelated tangent, I suspect the dual function of the CMS not spoken of is to have only new content pased through the DAZ|Store to work on DAZ, monopolizing content and addons, no third party or independent merchants making money on DAZ content without their getting a piece of the action. I bet the merchants at renderosity like evilinnocence and kozoburo that have product for pre-genesis figures are real happy with their content suddenly being unusable and unmarketable. If I am wrong, abnd pre-genesis unmetasdata’d content can be shown in the libraries and used as before, I eagerly await the solution. Until then, if anyone knows why my DAZ just curled up and died, I’d appreciate your suggestions.
The Smart Content pane will only show content with metadata. The rest of your content will be viewable in the Content Library pane, just like it was in 3.
There are actually short cuts for starting and stopping the CMS service in the Start menu, in their own group under DAZ3D.
As for the idea of DAZ blocking others - DS includes all the tools needed to create metadata so there’s nothing to stop anyone from adding it to their products, at other stores or free.
Setting the CMS to Manual will stop it from autostarting with Windows. You will need to start it manually before starting DS4.
Content without metadata will not show in Smart Content, but it will show in Content Library in both “DAZ Studio Formats”/“Poser Formats” and in Categories if you assign them.
Outside vendors are not restricted—they can create metadata for their products, and some people have made metadata for them (Cridgit posted a bunch on ShareCG). And you can still use them in the Content Library tab.
I haven’t used the smart pane, I transferred my content to ther content libraries, but the folders show, not the content witjhin. That’s the issue.
As I noted elsewhere, I installed and re-installed Daz3 and Daz 4 in seperate folders, but neither starts up when I click the icons.
On the desktop or in the program files or program files (/386). Same configuration as before I reinstalled everything after my HD crashed.
It’s like groundhog day, only Friday the 13th… over and over and over…
I haven’t used the smart pane, I transferred my content to ther content libraries, but the folders show, not the content witjhin. That’s the issue.
As I noted elsewhere, I installed and re-installed Daz3 and Daz 4 in seperate folders, but neither starts up when I click the icons.
On the desktop or in the program files or program files (/386). Same configuration as before I reinstalled everything after my HD crashed.
It’s like groundhog day, only Friday the 13th… over and over and over…
So in the Content Library tab, under “DAZ Studio Formats” and “Poser Formats”, the folders show but not the content? Can you go to Edit > Preferences > Content Library > Content Directory Manager, expand the 3 types, and post a screenshot?
