You install and uninstall with DIM (or DAZ Central), or you install and uninstall with Connect (through Smart Content), don't mix the two. If you installed with DIM, you cannot uninstall from Studio in the Smart Content tab, and vice versa.

Smart Content will see the assets and provide the necessary associations and dependencies regardless of how it got the metadata, from DIM or from Connect. 

If the icon is greyed out, Studio does not see the product as installed, so you couldn't uninstall it even if you tried, but it shows as available. If you are using DIM, do not ever install from Smart Content. I can't say that often enough.

To remove the greyed-out icon, go to the Content Library tab (NOT Smart Content). Select Products on the left. You will see the alphanumeric headings. Pick one. Wait for it to refresh the view. Go to the bottom of the list. Any uninstalled products will be there as greyed-out icons. Right-click on one and DELETE it (you cannot do that from the Smart Content tab). Studio will process for a few seconds and the view will clear. You have to pick the alphanumeric heading again and return to the bottom of the list if there are more to delete. Repeat for each uninstalled product you want to make disappear. I do not know of any way to do more than one at a time.

After deleting the product from the database, they should not appear in the Smart Content All or Available tab anymore. (I say "should", but I have never let Studio log in, so I cannot say for sure, but when I do this procedure on my Content Library, the greyed-out icons for uninstalled products in the Smart Content views also disappear).

Those are the locations for files isntalled through one of the isntallers - one folder (in Public Documents) is the default location for DIM to place files, the othe is the default for Daz Central. It seems clear that you have had both application isntalled, and used them both, and reset their paths to their defaults as otherwise both would, so far as I know, use the settings from whichever you used first.

Richard Haseltine said:

That means you have the default locations for install manager and Daz Central in use, which as I said should not happen unless you reset the second one to use its defaults instead of continuing with the settings from the first.

Sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about. Are the files i download from the site stored in DIM? I really don't want to have DAZ Central because of its incapability of downloading all the files with one click. How can I check the default locations?

That means you have the default locations for install manager and Daz Central in use, which as I said should not happen unless you reset the second one to use its defaults instead of continuing with the settings from the first.

Hello, I tried to update Daz Studio today as I was using an older version and a product I purchased yesterday wasn't working (so I hoped it would fix my issue). After updating, I can't open Daz anymore, there is no shortcut on my desktop or way to open Daz other than through Central (but clicking it doesn't open Daz at all). Most of my library is third party, and it would take a long while to back it up to a different drive or redownload it all due to size. If I uninstall, and then reinstall, Daz, will my library remain untouched, or will Daz delete it all as part of the uninstall?

I am having a huge issue with D2B bridge.  On Daz Central it lists version 2.4.0 'Daz 3D Genesis 3/8 transfer to Blender"
However, when I install it, Blender describes the plugin as "Import Export DAZ (.duf, .df) Importer" ver 1.6.2
I have tried to uninstall/reinstall but nothing seems to work.  Am I doing something wrong?  I can't import my Daz Gen 8 female to Blender on this current version. 

The first is from Daz Central, the second from Install Manager - but the second to be isntalled should have respected the settings already made by the first, unless you went in and changed/reset them.

After taking a break from DAZ Studio for several years, I'm now back at it. One problem I am running into is the apparent lack of "fit-to" options for various products. In this example, I am trying to apply a hair style to Victoria 4.2 but the hair has no fit-to option, just a parenting option. Why? Am I missing a step?

The DAZ product is "Army Combat Uniform for V4." The clothes fit fine, conforming immediately to Victoria 4.2, but not the hair. I checked the DAZ store if I could find more info, but the product is no longer available for purchase, though it's still available in my Daz Central library. Any suggestions? Thanks.

emre.bener said:

Hello, I'm also stuck at "Installation will begin after previous installations". I have no antivirus. Are there no solution for this problem?

It is saying it will begin installation after the previous isntallations have been removed. Have you checked the log? Daz Central installs multiple items when installing the Daz Studio package and at 83% it is likely that it is one of the add-ons that is sticking, not the application itself.

That is the default using Daz Central to isntall, in order to simplify things for new users it taks only a single directory setting and places everything in sub-folders of that. This has been the case for quite a while now.

Hello! I have a problem. Download the 200 pupeteer long ago. But it didnt work, so i left it. Now i need to use it and i was try to find out whats going on.
I`ve tried to use Daz Central to unninstall and install again - didn`t work.

Install manager - didn`t work
Zip File directly to shapes folder through library - didn`t 
When I click on ot it`s "file doesn`t exist"
So i drag and drop it on avatar and in pupeteer window i see parameters, but it`s not changing anything if i try to change it.

I`ve tried it with Genesis and Genesis 8.1 - but 0 result. 
HOW TO MAKE THIS THING WORK?!

I don't know what CRM is (customer relationship management ???). I don't know how that would have anything to do with Daz Connect. I've never tried Daz Central, but it is basically a watered down DIM, so Content Gatherer should work with Daz Central content installations.

barbult said:

Another limitation of Content Gatherer is that it doesn't work with content installed with Daz Connect.

I know it doesn't work with anything CRM, which I think is more a limitation of Connect than anything else. (CRM files only come through Connect, right?)

I couldn't recall whether it works with Central, but not Connect... Or doesn't work with either.

I only use DIM and manual installations, so it hasn't been an issue for me.

ebslater26 said:

Richard Haseltine said:

Daz Central should respect the Install Manager directory settings - and show Managed By Install Manager in its settings dialogue - so unless soemthing is going wrong with the settings in DIM that is surprising. Are you using just the single, default profile in DIM or have you added and are you using a second profile?

Thanks for your reply. I'm just using the default profile in DAZ. I keep my assett libraries organized, i.e. sepperate asset libraries for Characters, props, environments, etc. which is where I imagine my problems come from. After my troubleshooting the other day I figured out that Daz Central was changing the default location of my Content Database Base path, which I have customized in Install Manager (not the default path). Of course, I hadn't made a note of where I had it (and forgot) so it took a while to find.

I'm not really looking for a solution. I was honestly just frustrated and needed to vent. DIM works great for what I need it to do. I was just trying Daz Central to see if there were any cool new features, and the nagging fear that DIM will be discontinued in the future (I hope they don't). 

FYI, I keep my assett libraries seperate so that I can unload a library and speed up loading/processing times. For example, if my Characters library is open in Daz it can take 2-5 minutes to load a character (I have a LOT of assets in my library). But if I'm working in an active project and need animations and response times to be reasonable, I unload some libraries, load my scene, and get to work. There are more steps in there obviously but that's the jist of it. I'm not sure if this is the right way to work or if there might be a better way, but it works for me.

I do the same thing you do (re: segmenting the product installations).

I would suggest looking into Content Gatherer for archiving any projects or scene assets.

It's a stand alone product that reads your DS save file and produces a list of all the files the scene is using. It will then export the list to a text file or collect all the files into a zip file.

Then later you can unzip the archive and point DS to the content directory. You can open the scene file without having to reinstall anything because all the needed files are already where they need to be.

The caveats are...  the progam's author passed away, so it may very well stop functioning with any new DS updates... and it doesn't work on DAZ Connect / DRM / Central files. It will only work with archives that are manually installed or DIM installed.

It's saved me a lot of headaches by collecting texture, geometry, and temporary files that I would have otherwise lost.

Richard Haseltine said:

Daz Central should respect the Install Manager directory settings - and show Managed By Install Manager in its settings dialogue - so unless soemthing is going wrong with the settings in DIM that is surprising. Are you using just the single, default profile in DIM or have you added and are you using a second profile?

Thanks for your reply. I'm just using the default profile in DAZ. I keep my assett libraries organized, i.e. sepperate asset libraries for Characters, props, environments, etc. which is where I imagine my problems come from. After my troubleshooting the other day I figured out that Daz Central was changing the default location of my Content Database Base path, which I have customized in Install Manager (not the default path). Of course, I hadn't made a note of where I had it (and forgot) so it took a while to find.

I'm not really looking for a solution. I was honestly just frustrated and needed to vent. DIM works great for what I need it to do. I was just trying Daz Central to see if there were any cool new features, and the nagging fear that DIM will be discontinued in the future (I hope they don't). 

FYI, I keep my assett libraries seperate so that I can unload a library and speed up loading/processing times. For example, if my Characters library is open in Daz it can take 2-5 minutes to load a character (I have a LOT of assets in my library). But if I'm working in an active project and need animations and response times to be reasonable, I unload some libraries, load my scene, and get to work. There are more steps in there obviously but that's the jist of it. I'm not sure if this is the right way to work or if there might be a better way, but it works for me.

Ask first?

Anyway, to answer the OP's first question: DAZ Central is the newer app, but it is meant for beginners who do not want to, or cannot, tinker with all the customization that can be done with DIM. You will be much happier staying with DIM. 

I have  that set - no issues with the install. Everything installed with Install Manager.Two images, because I have so much installed.

ETA  - Like barbult, I'm wondering where the top level 'default' went - all the metadata DAZ provides is set up to install these cataegories under default. Unless this is a function of Central I didn't notice the day I played with it and found it too limiting for my needs.

I'm sorry. I'm not opening a ticket for this. Don't take this the wrong way but... It took me a week to fix it, I don't want to use even more time documenting, explaining, and having to re-explain it. It's just more aggrevation that I don't need.

You have no idea how much time I waste trying to trouble shoot and resolve issues that shouldn't be happening in the first place. Then spending weeks trying to ferry a ticket to completion is just adding insult to injury.

To answer the specific questions you asked:
I don't use Connect or Central. I use DIM and nothing else.
DIM is up to date. The packages in DIM are up to date.

If the DIM package is broken, I would expect that the Connect / Central package probably has the same problem.

My databases and Smart Content has broken three times in the past week. Twice I have uninstalled all products through DIM and reinstalled them. This usually fixes it.

Yesterday I installed another hundred or two products. Started DS and my Smart Content is broken again.

I don't use Central, my DS isn't online, and my log on information isn't entered into DS.

If this is related to what you are experiencing, there may be more going on than just Central.

Daz Central should respect the Install Manager directory settings - and show Managed By Install Manager in its settings dialogue - so unless soemthing is going wrong with the settings in DIM that is surprising. Are you using just the single, default profile in DIM or have you added and are you using a second profile?