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product library "sort by" options

manekiNekomanekiNeko Posts: 1,452
edited March 20 in The Commons

i will have to reinstall daz completely. win10 laptop crash, change to linux, too old machine anyway to reinstall now. but hopefully new 2nd hand laptop in summer..

thing is, i have a lot of really old products. some i purchased years ago because they were still kinda recent, and i wanted them. i also have a whole bunch of freebies from the biweeklies that i purchases because hey, free, and who knows, maybe i'll need that particular item once in a scene - better from daz/dim than obscure uncategprized freebies i never remember nor find in my contents panel. and then there are the super sales at 80% price where i buy stuff that is probably less ancient but still not highest SKU wise.

so if i reinstall, i will literally pick out what i want, and this will very probably include/strat from the newest stuff, and then continue decreasingly towards older stuff - or not.

problem being.. in my PRODUCT LIBRARY, not dim or a fancy app, i can sort by name (obvs not adequate for that scenario), or by purchase date. latter would make sense IF i purchased stuff as they're published/sold. but since there is a lot of old clutter in-betweent recent stuff, this sorting is useless too.

so 1st, WHY does daz/product library not offer the sorting choice by SKU/date of release??? and what do i do now when i wanna reinstall by newest product?
apart from doing it from DIM i guess...

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  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,614

    @manekiNeko, by any chance do you have your shopping carts or download documents and if not, can you use your Order History?

    I have recently gone through this on my MacMini M4 and then a Windows 11 and did clean new installs of my products, including freebies and other site purchases. I started with the Default Resources that DIM has you do, and made sure they were in the correct paths and after that I had DIM sorted by Order Date and my online Product Library also by Order Date. I had to be careful not to exceed a certain amount during the month, so I had to be careful. After the essential stuff, I went for my plug-ins, scripts, Genesis Core characters, and then it was selecting by type of product an assortment (environments, hairs, poses, wardrobe, ...) so I would have some stuff to play with. But I avoided items I knew I hadn't used EVER, or had caused me issues, it took me around five months for half of my Runtime. And that is cleaning up missing metadata, thumbnails and stuff. I still have others to install. 

    I do agree with you it would be so much easier to be able to match DIM and the Product Library's sorts up. The closest I got was selecting a PA's store and pulling up everything I own. Or using key words in DIM for specific items. The hardest is texture sets that are bought separate from the main item and don't have a clean name connection. I am still tracking those down.

    Mary

  • manekiNekomanekiNeko Posts: 1,452

    memcneil70 said:

    @manekiNeko, by any chance do you have your shopping carts or download documents and if not, can you use your Order History?

    I have recently gone through this on my MacMini M4 and then a Windows 11 and did clean new installs of my products, including freebies and other site purchases. I started with the Default Resources that DIM has you do, and made sure they were in the correct paths and after that I had DIM sorted by Order Date and my online Product Library also by Order Date. I had to be careful not to exceed a certain amount during the month, so I had to be careful. After the essential stuff, I went for my plug-ins, scripts, Genesis Core characters, and then it was selecting by type of product an assortment (environments, hairs, poses, wardrobe, ...) so I would have some stuff to play with. But I avoided items I knew I hadn't used EVER, or had caused me issues, it took me around five months for half of my Runtime. And that is cleaning up missing metadata, thumbnails and stuff. I still have others to install. 

    I do agree with you it would be so much easier to be able to match DIM and the Product Library's sorts up. The closest I got was selecting a PA's store and pulling up everything I own. Or using key words in DIM for specific items. The hardest is texture sets that are bought separate from the main item and don't have a clean name connection. I am still tracking those down.

    Mary

    i'm sorry to hear you had to go through this too.. and well, if i use DIM i can sort differently/more efficiently, like by SKU. thank you for having mentioned the textures tho, i might have overlooked that. i have probably most of my zips on a usb or two, like emergency rescues, but i'd prefer a clean install through DIM, even if that means redownload - those i have can stay as backup. 

    it's not for tomorrow anyway. i knew i wouldn't reinstall on this old acer again because it never was optimal, and now i'm on linux so it's twice as complicated so even if i had reinstalled it would be a pain... but i just learned today that my old nvidia won't even work any more on the newest linux, no drivers supported. so we'll see this summer or later, if/when i can afford a "new" old laptop :/

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