Proxima Shining - 06 September 2012 07:24 AM
fixmypcmike - 06 September 2012 05:56 AM
Until the Install Manager is available they are continuing to use installers. Old items have been put into zips because the old Mac installers don’t work on current Macs.
Ah, I see. Thank you for clarification. And it will be “DAZ Soon” as usual, right? 
Anyway, since you always seem so knowledgeable, maybe you could advise me concerning installing? Is there any way how to install multiple DAZ EXE installers at once? I bought a lot of content during the DAZ Original Sale (bundles and PC items) but I did not install anything yet (except the most important files, like M5) because that is a truly horrid number of installers, which scares me off. Just downloading them from the site took ages. I also bought some items at Renderosity and they are using ZIPs, so I just selected all of them and unzipped them into the runtime all at once, with a single click of my mouse. Just running only one DAZ installer takes MUCH longer than this! And definitely it cannot be handled with just one mouse-click.
I wonder how you more experienced long-time DAZ users are doing it? Surely you must sometimes buy more content at once as well. Is there some trick to this which would allow me to do something similar as with the Rendo ZIP items, or must I really run each of those oh-so-many installers I now have separately?
You can do it with a batch file—I can’t remember who posted the original version, but my current version looks like this:
ECHO OFF
CLS
IF not exist inslist.txt goto makelist
:MENU
ECHO.
ECHO ...............................................
ECHO PRESS 1 or 2 to select your task, or 3 to EXIT.
ECHO ...............................................
ECHO.
ECHO 1 - Auto Install to trial2
ECHO 2 - Auto install to trialcontent
ECHO 3 - EXIT
ECHO.
SET /P M=Type 1, 2, or 3, then press ENTER:
IF %M%==1 GOTO Installall
IF %M%==2 GOTO Someinstall
IF %M%==3 GOTO END
:makelist
dir *.exe /b >inslist.txt
GOTO MENU
:Installall
FOR /F "eol=; tokens=1,2* " %%i in (inslist.txt) DO %%i --mode unattended --unattendedmodeui minimal --accept_license yes
--create_uninstaller no --create_startmenu_shortcuts no --installdir_content "Q:\trial2"
GOTO MENU
:Someinstall
FOR /F "eol=; tokens=1,2* " %%i in (inslist.txt) DO %%i --mode unattended --unattendedmodeui minimal --accept_license yes
--create_uninstaller no --create_startmenu_shortcuts no --installdir_content "Q:\trialcontent"
GOTO MENU
:END
IF exist inslist.txt goto REMOVE
:REMOVE
del inslist.txt
@Echo All done...... Exiting!
