Empty store search results
in The Commons
While searching for some products that I knew existed, I was puzzled that they did not show in the store search results, even when using specific keywords (or even the SKU, which normally gives a result list of 1). In fact, there were several that did not show up. Looking a little closer, there were many more, all in the week of Jul 01-07, 2024. Not all products released in that week, but 75 of 90 cannot be found in a store search. They all have ReadMe pages and Product pages. They are present in the PA's stores, and in the main store pages with an Artist filter applied. (Tab-separated list attached)
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Weird, I tested two random items I own and both show up in my Product Library without issue, but don't show up in the store like you say.
I saw that there was a DAZ Studio updatte in the forums today so I started DIM to download it and low & behold DIM claims I have about 900 prooducts I have bought but not downloaded yet and installed. I checked the list of downloads, it is true, I purchases all of them, many from several years ago, many quite recent. Why is this? I have about 9000 products so this is about a 10th of those. Is DAZ 3D updating the meta data inconpatibly with the old DIM PC dastabase? Will eventually all 9000 products need to be redownloaded as they update the product data?
Manifests and zips still where they should be? I don't see any great number of items with updates or ready to download as if never downloaded.
DIM sometimes shows me dozens of already installed products in the Ready to Download tab. They are not updates, because the package date is very old. Restarting DIM will usually make those go away from the Ready to Download tab.
What I was referring to has nothing to do with DIM or my Product Library. These are products that do not show up in a site search, whether I own them or not.