DIM sorting has suddenly failed
Peter Wade
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I don't install everything using DIM so when I buy new stuff I Iook at the recent items at the top of the list to chose the stuff to install. But yesterday the sort stopped working and it is still failed today. Now if I select Order Date : Recent First it's showing a lot of old stuff at the top of the list. The stuff I just bought must be somewhere way down the list.
Has anyone else had this problem? Any ideas how to fix it?
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I noticed this as well.
Edit: looks like it's working now - in my "installed" tab, at least :)
I'm having this issue with Daz Central. None of my recent purchases are listed, only really old stuff with a current purchase date.
From these replies it sounds like a problem at the Daz end of the system, especially if it is affecting Daz Central as well. I don't know where the sorting gets done, on the server or the client, so I thought it might be a problem with my setup.
When I go to the installed tab DIM automatically switches the sort order to Installed Date and this is correct. If I change it to Order Date it is wrong again. I supect the Installed date may be coming from locally stored files.
Did you get some old bundles from the "buy for the cost of the items you not have yet" for free recently, of which you already had got all items before? Because for me DIM seems to sort these items I got years ago right to the date I got the bundle now.
Could be a problem with the manifest (.dsx) files that DIM generates.
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About the same in DIM
It obviously isn't a DIM issue since DIM has not chnaged.
Daz is aware of hte issue and is looking into it.
The DIM default filters were updated, though, but that may have just been coincidental timing and not causal.
Mine was messed up before the filter update, as I hoped that would fix it. The only unusual thing that happened in the last few days was CS had to add some of the Zeus outfit items that were missing from the intial purchase to my account. Just adding that bit of info into the mix.
I have over 16K items to be installed on my laptop (I download everything here, but only do limited testing with a subset) everything is showing an order date of 9/23/2022 4:14:42 - which is when I fired up DIM. It looks like the "order date:recent first" is borked; the popup shows an order id of 'unknown' and the above order date; the .dsx file shows the correct order id and the correct order date.
Opening ticket . . .
ETA - interestingly, this only happens if I connect to Daz; if I work offline the order id and dates are valid.
Please don't, Daz is already aware of and working on the issue.
That makes sense, it gets the current data from the store is connected.
Those are just plain text files which can be read in to set the filter text, they are not actively doing anything to the rest of the application.
It's working for me now with one slight oddity. some free items I "bought" today are listed under the stuff I bought two days ago. But my recent stuff is now at the top of the list so it is fine for me.
One other oddity, default filters for DIM were being shown as a product ready for download yesterday but they aren't there now. Should they be in the product list ?
Mine works all right in the Installed tab, but the Ready to Download tab is messed up. It comes up in alphabedical order and no matter how I try to sort it, it won't change.
Yes, that is exactly what I was getting too :) Thankfully, I hide everything I don't want to install in the first two tabs, so any new stuff I could see, but if I checked the "Display Hidden" checkbox, I couldn't find the stuff I just bought.
I noted in the DIM thread at the top of Commons yesterday that on Windows they seemed to have fixed it, but on Mac's I found that they have not. And after looking at some of the items that appeared to be 'Recent Orders' they had no order dates any longer in my Product Library and had they Printing License added. I am getting around that only by sorting by Product ID and keeping a my copy of the shopping cart handy (though with a bundle that was iffy).
And it is surprising the number of items that have been hanging around waiting to be released as the UltraSceneryXT products were ahead of the newest released ones in my MBP M1 DIM.
I'm having the same trouble with the recent products not showing today.
I bought both Genesis 8 Male and Female Expressions as they were half price a couple of days ago, now I've come to use them I cant download them.
I had to try to download through the product page, the icons show up in Studio, but the folders are empty.
PLUS, THEYRE 70% OFF TODAY!!! I know its not much, but...
Not a happy bunny.
I'm still having issues with DAZ central on Windows, everything is showing the same date and item order changes everytime I open the app. Which is nice.
The items I bought yesterday were there and installed ok but I had to do a search to find them.
There is something going wrong on the Daz system, I don't know if it is related to the DIM issues. If I look at my product library there are four orders where the items don't show an image on the righthand side of the page and if I select them I just get a box with a spinning circle and no download link. I have installed them previously through DIM so I don't know if they would be downloadable now by DIM. There is more one recent order that does not have that problem but it is just free items, i don't know if that makes a difference.
Same here, I'm not able to manually download most of the items I purchased last week..