DAZ Install Manager isn't working
Ron Knights
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Does anyone else have this problem?
I see only a very small part of the 25 year's worth of purchases.
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Working flawlessly for me...
Yep. Me too but it is because I downloaded almost all things I own. Sometimes It seems like nothing downloaded if my drive is not plugged in or if I plug it into a different port. The two screenshots are from a test PC that has only DAZ Studio installed. One is with the drive detached the other is with the drive attached and mapped in DIM.
By the way Ron. I saw your painted art. . . . good for you. Me, I paint furniture and wood stuff. And, I thought maybe, just maybe, someone like you into oil paint etc, could load up a daz prop or scene and screenshoot the screen (why bother with a render?) and print and paint over it. Sort of like a glamorous coloring book. Just a thought. You probabably have a ton of DAZ stuff and no need to buy a new muse. Use what you have. You have trees, flowers, people, mountains, houses, you have everything you need, a still subject, a paint brush and paints/or markers and and audience (where you live and here in your art thread). Hope 2026 is your year to shine!
artAngel, I've ordered a projector that will take images off my computer, or a smart phone or HDMI cable.
You can project the size you want, then trace the outlines and paint from there.
Thanks for the compliment. I'd love to see some of your work.
By the way I use acrylic paint. I find it easier, and healthier.
Oil paints and solvents are hazardous to your health.
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I fiddled with DIM for awhile, with no changes. Then I fiddled some more.
DIM appears to be functioning properly, but it takes several hours to finish its work.
It's 10:30 PM and time for bed.
In Daz Install Manager, in the process of trying to keep my current Daz 4.24 from being overwritten, I unchecked some download options in Settings [Gear] | Advanced Settings | Downloads and discovered that it rendered about three dozen odd items (over my whole collection) invisible to download -- but that that's what was happening, wasn't initially clear. Since my only immediately obvious missing items were ~60% of my last fortnight's purchases, I thought the omissions resulted from some erratic failure of recent purchases to populate DIM.
It has turned out that the missing items actually are available in DIM, but the ascription of data (models, etc.), not program or script, items to various versions of Daz Studio and other covered software mostly doesn't seem consistent or predictable. I had to turn some of the checkboxes for various Daz versions back on to make the missing times reappear.
I didn't immediately figure out what was going on because I saw things like:
I only had about 3 dozen files out of ~6k files vanish from the DIM lists, but my collection's about half as old as yours.
I've had to go back and turn on all the Daz Studio versions in the Download options in DIM. I can safely select the operating system, and release or beta, but I apparently need to keep all the Daz Studio and Poser versions selected because unchecking them can make content disappear in patterns confusing enough to look random.
(So the Download settings checkboxes mostly aren't going to be useful in keeping de3DL'd Studio off my hard drive. I've hidden all the latest Daz 4.24 downloads instead, and intend to watch to make sure no new ones ever appear in the DIM Ready to Download tab.)