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kaalika.gg - 21 October 2012 04:56 PM

fixmypcmike - 21 October 2012 04:44 PM

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fixmypcmike - 21 October 2012 03:44 PM

kaalika.gg - 21 October 2012 12:09 PM

Just installed Daz Studio 4.5 and had content in the Shaping tab but nothing under Smart Content. When I tried the fix to reimport metadata it gave me Smart Content but took away Shaping. Recreated the database and the same result: Smart Content data, Shaping nothing. Help?

Is this with the latest DS 4.5.1.6 and Genesis Starter Essentials 1.6?

Yes. It’s the 64bit version.

Can you list some dials that aren’t showing up?  I have other morph packs installed, so I’m not sure what comes in the GSE that I can check.

Child, Female, Male, Universal (Body Volume, Bodybuilder, Heavy, Pear Figure, Pot Bellied, Thin) aren’t showing up in Shaping tab but only in Parameters. When I first installed those were showing up but running a metadata import to get the Smart Content to show up somehow erased them from the Shaping tab.

Hmm, I’m seeing them in the Shaping tab.  Where is your content installed?  If you look in “:Runtime:Support” directly under the specified content folder, what is the date of DAZ_3D_14812_Genesis_Starter_Essentials.dsx?

Closed DAZ Studio and reopened (content management still running) and now nothing shows up at all either in Smart Content or in Shaping. This is frustrating.

I downloaded these two files yesterday and installed today. I installed to my E: drive and then went to install the Genesis package, it couldn’t find the content directory. I opened and closed DAZ Studio then tried again and it found the content directory so I installed in that. So it’s all been placed where the installer put things.

I’m confused by the question about Runtime:Support.

EDIT INCOMING MAY HAVE FIXED.

Ok I feel dumb now wasn’t running DAZ Studio as Administrator. /facepalm

In addition when I tried to fix by renaming the databases folder, it created databasesContentDB.* files instead of creating a new databases/ folder. So when I closed the program it lost all the metadata all over again.

Reminder to any other newbies who find this, run the program as administrator!

...I’m going to go hide now.

try to import your meta data again the reason it will not show is you stopped the CMS and start it again -this step usually you do if you want to uninstall daz and re install it again

kaalika.gg - 21 October 2012 07:03 PM

Closed DAZ Studio and reopened (content management still running) and now nothing shows up at all either in Smart Content or in Shaping. This is frustrating.

I downloaded these two files yesterday and installed today. I installed to my E: drive and then went to install the Genesis package, it couldn’t find the content directory. I opened and closed DAZ Studio then tried again and it found the content directory so I installed in that. So it’s all been placed where the installer put things.

I’m confused by the question about Runtime:Support.

EDIT INCOMING MAY HAVE FIXED.

Ok I feel dumb now wasn’t running DAZ Studio as Administrator. /facepalm

In addition when I tried to fix by renaming the databases folder, it created databasesContentDB.* files instead of creating a new databases/ folder. So when I closed the program it lost all the metadata all over again.

Reminder to any other newbies who find this, run the program as administrator!

...I’m going to go hide now.

I understand you i’m also new it’s can be very hard in the start. but don’t give up ,

kaalika.gg - 21 October 2012 07:03 PM

EDIT INCOMING MAY HAVE FIXED.

Ok I feel dumb now wasn’t running DAZ Studio as Administrator. /facepalm

In addition when I tried to fix by renaming the databases folder, it created databasesContentDB.* files instead of creating a new databases/ folder. So when I closed the program it lost all the metadata all over again.

Reminder to any other newbies who find this, run the program as administrator!

...I’m going to go hide now.

You shouldn’t HAVE to run it as admin…basically something in your install of Windows is whacked, not DS.  Either some security software is preventing it or your user account is ‘limited’.  Or, you are infected with something (some malware will change the user account privileges to something very restrictive…this is done to make removal of it even harder).

RedHeadLilith - 21 October 2012 07:11 PM

try to import your meta data again the reason it will not show is you stopped the CMS and start it again -this step usually you do if you want to uninstall daz and re install it again

Try just renaming the changed name back to what is should be, first…it’s the easy thing to do and often does work.  Especially if you’ve done nothing that would require an ‘update’ to the database.

mjc1016 - 21 October 2012 09:22 PM

You shouldn’t HAVE to run it as admin…basically something in your install of Windows is whacked, not DS.  Either some security software is preventing it or your user account is ‘limited’.  Or, you are infected with something (some malware will change the user account privileges to something very restrictive…this is done to make removal of it even harder).

You sure about that? I was under the impression that Admin was required for DS4.5. I have seen that fix it for many users. It depends on how their PC is set up I believe. If the users account is not the Admin account at Install is when it goes wrong I think. If installed from the Admin account and set to shared it will work for all accounts. I think that is what I have seen.

i just bought michael 3 and am not having any luck getting it to work.  when i go to my content tab i have nothing not even DAZ content.

I believe my paths are configured correctly.

when i try a database maintenance and re-import meta data my content’s metadata shows on that screen but this does not solve the problem.

i am running both the content db and daz as admin to see if that helps. so far nothing.

is it time to re-install DAZ?

I’m on Windows7 with microsoft security essentials and advast as anti-virus.

recommendations?

here’s my path config screenshot

Click on the double-arrow—you’ve accidentally collapsed that portion of the Content Library pane.

that’s the ticket! worked like a charm - thanks…. glad it was so easy!

Ok for me I am running winows 7 and What I did was:
1.  I right clicked on MY COMPUTER icon
2. and choose MANAGE
3. double clicked Services and Applications
4. This opened another section that says Services click on that
5. This will list all the services running found DAZ Content Management and right clicked on it and choose Start.