Digital Art Zone

Is there any way to upgrade to 4.5 from 4 without losing all of my installs? Should I uninstall first?

You won’t lose all your installs… Some items you will have to re-instal, but for me it hasn’t been a very big deal at all.  Expect to have to re-download some items if you don’t have the installers archived, and get the fix duplicate IDs script… huge time saver, that one.

I just have literally hundreds of stuff in my library, most of them aren’t from daz that are from renderosity, and renderosity doesnt like it when i download something twice

Have they actually told you not to?  I’ve downloaded content from R.com multiple times because of various issues… I’ve never been told I couldn’t.

yes its told me i downloaded it too many times

The stuff that you might, possibly, maybe have to re-download is only the stuff from DAZ that has been updated to the new DUF/DSON format.

I doubt it will be anything from Rendo.

4.5 only uninstalls what it installed itself, that’s basically the ‘Starter Essentials’ and its built-in content.
Items you installed separately, (even other DAZ products) are not touched by the installer.

(Though its always good to have the original installers backed up somewhere) 

2getit - 12 December 2012 01:53 PM

yes its told me i downloaded it too many times

You should be able to reset downloads at Renderosity as I have done it myself a couple of times. If you’re ever in doubt, contact them directly. The automated system isn’t as helpful as a real person, and they’re usually quite accommodating.

That’s true, actually… the only thinngs really affected are native DAZ content…

ok cool, thanks guys

Yeah, I haven’t run into anything from Renderosity or RuntimeDNA that I had to re-install.  It’s just a few of the DAZ specific things like the Genesis Evolution morphs and things like that.