Well, if the Daz Connect version iss till isntalled the Daz central files will be conmpletely ignored so it could just be an issue with the Connect files. Try uninstalling those and see if the Central version then works.

nakamuram002 said:

I have setup my DAZ Content directory, so that none of it is stored on the C: drive in my private profile.  I do this because:

1. If I update or reload Windows, I do not have to worry (as much) about wiping out my content.

2. Is easier to manage directory permissions, do backups, and relocate the Content to another computer.

3. The DAZ content directory can get quite large, which is why I do not recommend storing it on C:.  If you run out of room on C:, you might not be able to boot your system.  It is a good rule of thumb to keep your data (DAZ, Financial, Personal, Porn, etc.) on a separate drive from the operating system and programs.  

Setup your DAZ content directory where YOU think it best belongs, then adjust DS, DIM, and DAZ Central accordingly.

Thank you. Yeah Im going to get a couple of portable SSD. So, both Daz Central and DIM will install to wherever you tell it to easy enough?

On both DAZ connect and DAZ central, it shows a download status bar, then completes.  The Icon for the product shows as available to install, but disappears (does not show in any tabs after).  Trying to open the product from the 'open' option on DAZ central opens studio, but then says requested resource not installed and listes the DUF file as unavailable

Purchased the Renee character, does not install properly through either DAZ Connect or DAZ Central.  Has anyone else had this problem?

I don't understand the question. I use install manager to install the necessary addons for daz to function since it's missing those when I installed daz. I'm installing daz with daz central. So I'm using both.

The problem is that upon opening daz I get an error seen above. It looks like daz isn't properly installing. How do I fix that?

Which are you using - Daz Central or Install Manager?

I install daz, but every time I close daz central and reopen it, daz central isnt installed. Upon clicking install, it starts at 86% every time. It seems like it doesn't fully install. This would only be mildly annoying, but every time I open daz after "reinstalling" it gives me a popup saying it couldnt get a connection to postgre sql. But I already installed that in DIM! What on earth is happening here? I've tried a full uninstall and reinstall of Daz central already.

It's incredibly frustrating that I haven't been able to get daz to work for the past near week...

I read the DAZ Connect FAQ thread. I also tried to search for my following question but the keywords are too common. I use Install Manager and DAZ Studio, not DAZ Central (and I really don't have any desire to change that yet). I'm running a Windows 11 machine with plenty of storage (for now). I am a new user with minimal understanding of DAZ but fair knowledge of Windows file structures (not expert or professional though - I have generally eliminated the problem between keyboard and computer, though). 

Question: Do I need both DAZ Connect and My DAZ 3D Library paths and folders? 

It looks like the data is duplicated but the size of the folders on my hard drive doesn't match exactly so I'm confused. I understand DAZ Connect provides all of the updates and interaction to the store. I want to keep that. Is the My DAZ 3D Library just there for legacy purposes now? Can I delete it? 

Thanks for any and all answers.

I have setup my DAZ Content directory, so that none of it is stored on the C: drive in my private profile.  I do this because:

1. If I update or reload Windows, I do not have to worry (as much) about wiping out my content.

2. Is easier to manage directory permissions, do backups, and relocate the Content to another computer.

3. The DAZ content directory can get quite large, which is why I do not recommend storing it on C:.  If you run out of room on C:, you might not be able to boot your system.  It is a good rule of thumb to keep your data (DAZ, Financial, Personal, Porn, etc.) on a separate drive from the operating system and programs.  

Setup your DAZ content directory where YOU think it best belongs, then adjust DS, DIM, and DAZ Central accordingly.

Hi,
I am a new Daz3d Studio user, I am having some problems while rendering a dforce hair (Kensington Hair), even in a very simple scene (Genesis 8.1 female + hair, nothing else) using Iray (photoreal).
As soon as I start the render, my PC halts and I have to manually reset it.
This did not happen until a couple of days ago, I have some renders with this hair and a character + outfit. Now the same scene I had rendered before does not render anymore and my PC stops working.
I suspect something has corrupted, I have reinstalled Daz Central + Studio and the hair content, but nothing changed. Should I reinstall something else? 

I also run a memory test of my PC that gave no errors. The Windows event log does not show anything anomalous, except the forced restart. My PC is usually very stable (never halts doing other things) so no doubt that it is Iray to halt it.

My PC has Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7400 CPU @ 3.00GHz, 8GB RAM and Nvidia GTX 1050 GPU, but the render happens in the CPUs. I do not complain about render times, but in this case the PC halts completely. 

The last lines of the log file are as follows:

2022-04-10 15:26:35.033 Iray [INFO] - IMAGE:IO ::   1.0   IMAGE  io   info : Loading image "C:\Users\Antonio\OneDrive\Documenti\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Daz Connect Library\data\cloud\1_42071\runtime\textures\daz\characters\genesis8_1\femalebase\g8_1tearopacity.jpg", no selector, pixel type "Rgb", 1024x1024x1 pixels, 1 miplevel.
2022-04-10 15:26:35.038 Iray [INFO] - IMAGE:IO ::   1.0   IMAGE  io   info : Loading image "C:\Users\Antonio\OneDrive\Documenti\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Daz Connect Library\data\cloud\1_82838\runtime\textures\philw\kensington hair\kh haircap trans.jpg", no selector, pixel type "Rgb", 4000x4000x1 pixels, 1 miplevel.
2022-04-10 15:26:35.040 Iray [INFO] - IMAGE:IO ::   1.0   IMAGE  io   info : Loading image "C:\Users\Antonio\OneDrive\Documenti\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Daz Connect Library\data\cloud\1_82838\runtime\textures\philw\kensington hair\kh haircap diffuse.jpg", no selector, pixel type "Rgb", 4000x4000x1 pixels, 1 miplevel.
2022-04-10 15:26:35.043 Iray [INFO] - IMAGE:IO ::   1.0   IMAGE  io   info : Loading image "C:\Users\Antonio\OneDrive\Documenti\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Daz Connect Library\data\cloud\1_82838\runtime\textures\philw\kensington hair\kh haircap bump.jpg", no selector, pixel type "Rgb", 4000x4000x1 pixels, 1 miplevel.
2022-04-10 15:27:57.695 Iray [INFO] - IMAGE:IO ::   1.0   IMAGE  io   info : Loading image "C:\Users\Antonio\OneDrive\Documenti\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Daz Connect Library\data\cloud\1_82838\runtime\textures\philw\kensington hair\light brown.jpg", no selector, pixel type "Rgb", 512x512x1 pixels, 1 miplevel.
2022-04-10 15:28:11.767 Iray [INFO] - IMAGE:IO ::   1.0   IMAGE  io   info : Loading image "C:\Daz 3D\Applications\64-bit\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\shaders\iray\resources\DTHDR-RuinsB-500.hdr", no selector, pixel type "Rgb_fp", 512x256x1 pixels, 1 miplevel.
2022-04-10 15:28:29.979 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating geometry.
2022-04-10 15:28:30.024 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating motion transforms.
2022-04-10 15:28:30.026 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Importing scene graph.

Can anybody help?
Thanks

Hello

I've a lot Daz products both from Daz shop and other sites.

My assets/products seem to be all over the place. I sometimes come across stuff I didnt know I had - there seems to be so many files and paths now. 

In my content library, I have 4 Files

My library ....C:\Users\admin\Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Library

My Daz 3D library ....C:\Users\Public\Documents\My DAZ 3D Library

My Daz library .....C:\Daz 3D\Applications\Data\DAZ 3D\My DAZ 3D Library

And then, MY Library....C:\Users\admin\Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Library

Could I delete some of these files and re-install products from Daz central or DIM - maybe creating my own filepath, say on my dsktop where I could keep everything in one place?. Would Dim be better for installing assets than central ?

You should have had no need to isntall the full PostgreSQL, and that may well be the root of your isues - you can't have multiple versions installed at once, and of course Install manager can't touch (or see, as far as I am aware) the stand-alone version. I am assuming that you don't have any other use for PostgreSQL? If not then yes, you probably want to uninstall and then do a clean install of the version set up for the Daz CMS through Install manager or Daz Central - if that doesn't work the likely culprits are folder permissions 9all too likely with the mixture of instal methods you have tried) or security software. If, however, the standalone isntallation is actually working with Daz Studio then leave it alone.

Note that the Valentina to postgreSQL conversion tol shown in your last screenshot is not relevant - as the name says, it is a tool to convert the database from Valentina format (used by the inital releases of DS 4) to PostgreSQL - since Daz Studio 4.9 Valentina has not been sued at all, and I don't think it was installed in one or more previous versions, so you would not have an old database in need of conversion.

Richard Haseltine said:

Try using Install Manager rather than Daz Central https://www.daz3d.com/get_install_manager/

Yes, thank you! That works for me!

@Daventaki I am having trouble as well.. started around 7pm US central time... it just spins.. so I guess I am going to miss the flash sale.. no pages are loading.. except the forums here did.  I tried multiple browsers.. chromium based, firefox and iOs phone

I am facing same problem.

I cannot download every products from DIM and DAZ Central. http://daz3d.com shows "Error 502" once in a while.

Same here. Sent in a ticket as well.

I can install free items (downloaded a random one) and it worked.

My purchase this morning has failed (Daz Central, DIM, Manual Download). 

I cannot get products to install in IM or daz central

I installed some yesterday from dazs central then.shortly after nothing else would install, tried through IM but same result, the internet is coneected and restarting didn't help.

Same problem with every type of download, browser, daz central or download manager, and in every browser on every platform, windows, mac or mobile.

Hi all

This morning I find that I cannot install anything, either through Daz Central or Install Manager. Daz Central just reverts to the green install button after a few seconds, and Install manager comes up with a message "Download failed." 

I've never seen this before. Is there a problem at Daz itself, perhaps? Perhaps with their servers?

 

 

kyleburk98 said:

Ok guys I have Figured out the "Not being able to find or open the Daz To Blender Add on" in blender.

So i used daz central installed the Daz to Blender Add on or Daz to Blender Bridge what ever you want to call it. what happened to me was it installed to the wrong location. 

It installed to "C:\Users\PHNX\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\BLENDER_VERSION\scripts\addons\DTB"

I copied everything in the DTB folder went back a few folders to "3.0" or the actual version you have installed. 

Navigate to scripts addons CREATE a DTB folder and paste what you copied into that folder.

open blender go to add on's and the DazToBlender add on should now show up in blender hope this helps.

Blender Version: 3.0

Daz Version : 4.16 Pro

thx that worked for me