is it possible to install only parts of the starter essentials?
manekiNeko
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today, there was an awesome freebie: Checkard Amor Secret Garden Shaded Haven.
i was absolutely sure i had seen the required product Secret Garden Shaded Haven before in my smart content, so i "purchased" the freebie addon (but didn't download it yet, not much room left on HD). then once in daz, as i tried another small freebie i just got, i searched in the smart content panel for SGSH - nothing. nor in my content directories, my DIM, my purchased products, nowhere. i thought omg i can't have hallucinated it! so then i searched really long for anything remotedly resembling it, ofc no success. finally i found the track of Secret Garden Shaded Haven in an old forum thread: it is, for a weird reason, in the shop as a standalone item (showing NOT purchased for me!!) - but actually, it's also meanwhile offered for free in the genesis 2 female starter essentials.
which i have recently uninstalled because i never use females and my HD is totally bursting at the seams. which ofc explains why i really saw it my smart content... and then not any more.
now, i don't need the starter essentials for G2F - no point, no room. i'm happy with G1 and i'm ok to have G2M handy just in case, it's enough.
but if i'd like to re-install Secret Garden Shaded Haven alone - rather without opening the zip, installing it manually... and have a mess in my DIM, which has functioned so perfectly faultless up to now i never had to complain, a couple of rogue installed folders showing in no install lists, and probably missing parts of the product since the essentials have cameras, icons & whatnot for more than just this... - how can i do this?
as a side question, why doesn't sales dpt make SGSH, since i definitely possess it, show as purchased in the shop?
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You would have to extract the zip into a sepreate folder and manually remove the parts you dont want.
which somehow would do the same as installing only the part(s) i want manually... leaving even more bits & traces in DIM/download folder.
i love my "my daz library" folders & my DIM, because unlike my normal "my library" where i install all freebies or products bought where else, it's clean, ordered, meticulous, i find if/when an item has been bought, installed etc with all details in the blink of an eye ~
that type of goodie, when offered in a started bundle, should show individually in DIM imho.
It would also be nice if they appeared as purchased in our product libraries. So for example, I suspect at least some DS users have purchased this:
http://www.daz3d.com/secret-garden-shaded-haven or
http://www.daz3d.com/duke-hair
without realising that they are included in DS for free.
"leaving even more bits & traces in DIM/download folder"
I believe what MattyManx was suggesting is that you download the manual installation files, avoiding DIM altogether, to a separate folder on your drive (I use one called "staging" for this sort of thing). That will give you a .zip file containing the starter essentials. Extract the contents to that same folder, locate the files you are looking for, and copy them to your content folder. You can then clear the temporary folder entirely, or just keep the .Zip file for future use. The only downside is that you need to re-download the starter essentials.
BTW, thanks for the heads up on the Shaded Haven - I hadn't noticed that.
if you know where you're DIM download folder is, the zip may still be in there. ? maybe
I do the same thing, I have a folder I just use to extract into, then place what where I want it, mostly I just use the download and install for updates.
I do the drag and drop, copy and paste just uses more space
I just tried this with Starter for G3F, I just wanted the clothes, there was actually a few other things I didn't know, so I grabbed them too .. this was more of a test, 4.6 is as far as I can use in versions, on this old machine.
a couple of the items went well, while the clothes , well lets say some of it I can use
The path, for Shaded Haven should be: Environments > Architecture > Shaded Haven, at least in the G2F Starter Essentials I have.
You can still install with DIM and then delete the files you don't want -- once you install it, DIM has a record of what it installed, even if you delete or move the files afterwrds.
BTW, for those who may not know, there is a list of all the files contained in the .zip file, along with the correct path into which they should be placed, included with the zip archive. It is called "Manifest.dsx", and can be read/opened with Notepad or similar.
yes, it's what i understood too (btw Mattymanx, sorry if my answer might have come as a bit dry and not very thankful, it wasn't meant like that actually, i just realized while reading the comment quoted above
). i always keep my downloaded zip files on a separate drive anyway. i just hoped there was a way to avoid an "unconventional" installation especially involving the DIM in any way. because before i read this:
i knew where all the DIM zips etc are, including all the dsx files - but it never crossed my mind you could edit the manifest to also delete there the files you'd have deleted after installation...
still, the method of creating a new zip and installing it in "my library" seems the best solution - thx for suggesting it, because i would have installed bits from the original one - i'd only have to delete the product if/when i re-install G2F starter. which means... i'll only do it if/when i really want to use this environment, and not just to have it handy ~
thx everyone for the help/comments! ^^