Why does the "Install Manager" first-run automatically download & install things without permission?

Naud Tye

So first I installed the Daz Studio software. Then I installed the "Install Manager" from my product library.

But after I entered my login information into "Install Manager", this program just went into business for itself. It began this huge download & install binge. It went so far as to re-download & re-install the Daz Studio software itself (even though I had already installed from the manual installer). To make matters worse, it did not use the custom content folder I set when installing Daz Studio. It put everything in the default C: drive content folder. 

Really, all I wanted was the ability to click the "Download & Install" button on specific items in the Product Library. Is there any way to prevent this program from going haywire on first-run? I have to install Daz on my other computer as well, but don't want the "Install Manager" just downloading everything & re-installing Daz Studio.

Richard Haseltine

You may need to open a support ticket to ask this as it affects only new systems, or even only new accounts, so there is a limited pool of people who an help and each of those may be able to run only one test.

SpottedKitty

Naud Tye said:

To make matters worse, it did not use the custom content folder I set when installing Daz Studio. It put everything in the default C: drive content folder.

This is one of the more annoying features of using DIM and DAZ|Studio; the two programs do not talk to each other about locations for installed content. If one of them is set up for using a custom folder location, the other must be set up for the same location manually.