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i am looking to manually install a .dsf file with body morphs after a computer failure

soapwellsoapwell Posts: 41
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I got a new computer recently and was able to download all of the files I had purchased directly through the DAZ storefront. I'm glad for that. However I had purchased one of SickleYield's Genesis 8 morph products from another storefront, and that file was not reinstalled. These are important to me as they're my only real way of distinguishing characters by facial features.

 

I have access to the files, and have followed a few different suggestions from tutorials, but I can't get the DAZ program to recognize the files. For example, putting them in the Genesis 8 Male directory didn't work. Putting them in the root directory didn't work either. 

 

The closest I can get is to have them appear in "Scan Results", but it does not add a Morphs folder in the main list in the Content Browser and they do not appear on the figure's Shape properties or anywhere else. Is there a way to manually import files into Daz Studio after a scan? That's the one thing I haven't found a tutorial for so far.

 

Thanks for any help you can give. Please let me know if I can give more information that will help me solve the problem faster.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 107,953

    Morphs do not appear in the content pane - there should be a data folder in the path (folowed by Daz 3D/Genesis 8/Male/Morphs/) and you need to merge that with the existing data folder in a content directory in order for the morphs to load with the figure.

  • soapwellsoapwell Posts: 41

    i've tried a few possible places to put the files, but none of them seem to work. the best i've been able to do is to get it to appear in the "Scan Results" section .... I'm just hoping there's a way to install a product from there. I found another thread saying that the .dsf files will contain their expected full file path, and some of them do (not all), but it's for an older version of DAZ which had different file paths. Is that the problem? 

    i've tried these file locations:

    "C:\Users\Public\Documents\My DAZ 3D Library\Morphs\SY200b"

    "C:\Users\Public\Documents\My DAZ 3D Library\People\Genesis 8 Male\Morphs\SY200b"

    "C:\Users\Public\Documents\My DAZ 3D Library\Morphs\SickleYield2018\SY200"

    "C:\Users\Public\Documents\My DAZ 3D Library\People\Genesis 8 Male\Morphs\SickleYield2018\SY200"

    "C:\Users\Public\Documents\My DAZ 3D Library\data\SickleYield2018\SY200"

    basically using different permutations of what people have been trying on other help threads. but none of these has worked. i'd be interested in seeing a way to import the content from the Scan Results into the program. then i should be able to find where the program stores the content, and remove the duplicates. is there a way to use the Scan Results to install a product? thanks.

  • soapwellsoapwell Posts: 41

    i was able to get it to work at the location "C:\Users\Public\Documents\My DAZ 3D Library\data\DAZ 3D\Genesis 8\Male\Morphs"

     

    it seems it may have needed the slash in between Genesis 8 and Male, but I wish there was a way to just say "here's a file, please install it" instead of having to guess, especially when DAZ's folders move around between versions. But thank you. I think if you had not pasted the reply above I wouldn't have thought to look for a URL with a slash before "Male".

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 107,953

    None of those will work. What, if any, folders are ion the zip?

  • soapwellsoapwell Posts: 41

    thank you, but it's working now. i dont know why, but i'm pretty sure i'm not mistaking the dials for something else because they clearly say SY200 (SickleYield 200) and appear on Genesis 8 Male figures only. 

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