Did DAZ Studios remove Dystopia City Blocks from my folders?
wildbillnash
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Did Daz remove products I bought from my computer with this latest updates. I had several city blocks disappear from my folders. The empty folders are in My DAZ 3D Library. Why did they disappear? I tried to find the product page online but that's been removed. Does that mean whatever we buy from DAZ can be removed by them? What else have I bought been removed without notice?
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Daz can't remove content from your computer. Some, at least, of those products have goine from the store but they should still be in your order history/Product Library/Install methods.
well they actually can if you let DIM run because some morphs were included in a product by mistake and an update removed them, I was not expecting those morphs anyway so was not concerned but it did prove it is possible.
Dashhound in the dog 8 when it was released if you wish to know
I show my ignorance but, as a Mac user, we can search our entire computer for an object, a phrase, a document etc... Is this possible to do in Windows? The Daz 3D library is a view of a database of files; if you can't see a file, it most likely means something got misfiled, some metadata is missing, or the links that tell the Content Manager has a wrong folder mapped. Very rarely, I have had a hard disk failure that damaged the location where something was but that is very rare.
Go to your product library and search for dystopia
https://www.daz3d.com/downloader/customer/files
Are they there?
You can search on PC as well. But sometimes the filename is in alphanumeric code and you won't be able to find it without knowing it. Also, I am trying to find them in DAZ. I'll play around with it and see what I can find.
BTW, I have used the city blocks before several times. I just don't know what happened to them and wonder if I'm missing anything else.
I can find it in Product History on the DAZ's site, but the link to the sales page is bad and it only show downloads for something called Lightwave, not DAZ Studios.
Okay, here's the update. I searched my computer and found the Dystopia in the My Daz 3D Library folder. I logged into DAZ and search. As I mentioned before the folder there is empty. I went to the folder in Windows Explorer and the file listed in the folder are with .lwo extensions, which I believe is for Lightwave, whatever that is. I really think something happened and DAZ removed them from my computer somehow.
where are you looking?
they are in Poser Format not DAZ studio format AFAIK
Let's begin with Daz Studio doesn't have the power to delete files on its own. I quickly checked my library and the files are Poser files. My guess is that your computer (not Daz Studio) confused the format for LWO and gave them the wrong extension. It happens with old files and old formats. Download the manual installation and examine the files for the extensions.
I have two downloads and two separate products in my Product Library for Blocks 001-010, Poser and LWO.
There were 2 different versions of the blocks, one for Lightwave and one for Poser. They were separate products.
Thanks. But the only manual downloads I can find is for Lightwave. The sales page is down so I can't go there.
As for Lightwave and Poser only, I did used to find it and use it in DAZ. So, what am I doing wrong? Maybe DAZ 4.12 can read Lightwave files but 4.14 can't.
Here's a pic I made last year using one of the city blocks from Dystopia using DAZ 4.12. As you can see, I had it. But not now.
I also see only the LWO version in my product library, probably an error, but both versions are available in DIM.
Actually the Poser/DAZ versions are in the library too, they're just listed as separate products:
You need to open a ticket, this is not something the forums can help with if the files are suddenly not there.