Nearly everything I've ever installed through Daz Central is not actually installed. WTF does Daz Central say it is installed?

Hello.

I am Darian, doing business as gride the cartoonist and representing central Indiana.

My artistic inspirations come from manga, anime, comic books, movies, television, songs, novels, short stories and video games.

Favorite food? I don't really have one. I like my food the same as I like my music: I give every type a chance. I believe variety is the spice of life, so I love a huge number of choices.

What makes me unique? I don't know, I learn and adapt quickly? lol

Current favorite 3D CG apps are Daz Studio and Blender. Been doing some things I hadn't done before with those.

Thank you for having me. I hope to talk with you all soon. 

When I tell DIM where Photoshop is on the Apps tab, do I just select the Photoshop folder under the ProgramFIles folder? Or some other location? I know Adobe also how a folder under the Common Files folder as well. I have a lot of brushes that I bought from the store, and I want them to go to the right place. When I look at either folder, I cannot find where it is storing the brushes. I swear there used to be a Brushes folder under the Presets folder maybe.

And when you tell it where Poser 11 is, do you pick where the exe is located? Or do you pick the folder where you want the content to go? I have Poser on C and the content on D

I'm setting up Daz on a new machine. They made it hard to find DIM. I think they want you to use Daz Central. That was easy to find. But I did find DIM eventually.

With Daz Central you set one folder location and then it places everything in suf-folders of that. it sounds as if you used a stand-alone Daz Studio application installer. It's not a good diea to place anything but application in a Program Files folder - the default folder for Daz Central is, I think, just a Daz 3D folder in the root of the drive (e.g. D:/Daz 3D/).

It looks as if your paths do not match between Daz Central and Daz studio now - try starting Daz Studio, then download this script (using the link above the block of code) and drag the downloaded file into the Daz Studio Viewport to run it: http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/file_io/install_manager_config_import/start then try reloading the content (by usign Run from Daz Central or by finding it in one for the content panes in Daz Studio).

Revo will not even see DS if it was installed with DIM or Central.

rumen.stanimirov said:

balouhusband_4454d41f79 said:

As dumb as it sounds, you need to install Daz Central to uninstall Daz Studio

Clever idea, but unfortunately even that is not working. Indeed there is a drop-down uninstall button on Daz Central dashboard, but when I pressed it, instead of uninstalling, the program started installing itself again !?

How did you install initially? Installing Daz Central, if that wasn't used, is not the solution.

balouhusband_4454d41f79 said:

As dumb as it sounds, you need to install Daz Central to uninstall Daz Studio

Clever idea, but unfortunately even that is not working. Indeed there is a drop-down uninstall button on Daz Central dashboard, but when I pressed it, instead of uninstalling, the program started installing itself again !?

That subfolder contains the metadata that DAZ Connect has retrieved while you have been logged/signed in to DS. That can play havoc with your DIM/DAZ Central/Manually installed content.

You could try setting that folder as "hidden" in Windows Explorer and then re-importing metadata, but stop logging in to DS first. Attached a pic of my startup settings for offline use.

Right click at the hamburger menu in the "Content Library" tab
Select "Content DB Maintenance"
Check "Re-import Metadata" and "Accept"
It will take a while for DS to populate the list (a few minutes on mine)
First uncheck all and then scroll down the list until you come to 'Genesis 8 Starter Essentials', SKU 42071 (the SKU number is easy to spot), as far as I remember there were three related ones, check them and Accept/Ok.

Did Genesis 8 Basic Female start working again?

ok even in dim look at the paths...3D application...Same in Central same in DIM...Ok this is not hardcoded thru my plugin it is something thru DAZ....

ecommerce_6124e6edac said:

Richard Haseltine said:

To remove the Connect installs, select the affected products (you can select more than one in the products tab of Smart Content, right-click on one of the selected items, and select Uninstall. if you delete the files DS will still try loading them, and will ignore the non-Connect files.

 OK, I'm trying this now, although I don't understand your last sentence.  Also, some of the files which don't work, and which I'm uninstalling, show that they're in the correct (DAZLibrary rather than DAZConnect) path when you browse to them, so I'm not clear what will happen when I uninstall those?  Will the DAZ connect or DAZ Library files be uninstalled?

The Connect Installation is entirely separate from any manual/Daz Central/DIM installation, having Daz Studio remove it will not touch any other installation's files.

While the database shows a Connect install then DS will try opening the files from the /Data/cloud/1_sku/path_to_the_file/ location, even if it isn't there 9at which point it will report an error) and it will not look in the plain /path_to_the_file/ location, so if the files are there that does no good.

"DIM is older, and Daz Central is pretty much just a skin on DIM"

So it is already what I suggested.

".../Cloud/Meta/ - Remove everything from that folder and it is impossible to see any BW thumbnails or white circles ever again, unless you log in to DS again."

OK. I did that. I'm home from work and I had both my Desktop and Laptop re-installing from the saved product files while I was away. Now, I look to see what it looks like without anything in the .../Cloud and /Meta/ folders. My fingers are crossed. What do I do if some products lack a product image and won't load?

DAZ Central and DIM are not DAZ Connect.

You use DAZ Connect when installing/updating content inside DS, if you have logged in to DS - There is only one reason for logging into DS and that is installing content with DAZ Connect.
DAZ Connect installs content to yet another location and everything that's installed/updated with DAZ Connect gets priority over the files installed with DIM/DAZ Central/Manual installation, even when the Connect installed ones are not working and the other ones would work just fine.

Have you looked in DAZ Studio Formats, does G8F load from there?

Ps. Stop logging in to DS.

I installed the new version of Daz, then I installed some things using Daz Central.  Not everything showed up there so I installed Daz Install Manager and installed a few more.  I'm pretty sure the Genesis 8 Starter Essentials was installed using Daz Central.  Wouldn't that installed both versions of the figure?  I don't understand how the two are behaving differently.

Pretty much the same questions that I'm asking here https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/528886/could-not-open-file-file-does-not-exist

Logfile, paths to content directories, are you installing with DIM/DAZ Central/DAZ Connect, are you logging/signing in to DS?

Except Connect (installing through DAZ Studio) absolutely relies on the database and Smart Content which a lot of us old timers do not like.  Further how would use content from other sites that cannot be installed with Connect (nor DIM or Central so needs manual install) and most like won't have metadata either so needs to used from the Content Library pane.

The whole point of Daz Central is to provide a simpler experience, since Install Manager was proving to be confusing for many new users. It is plug-and-play, sysem issues aside, that is its reason for being.

Install Manager will stay as it is useful for many people, especially if using other applications alongside or instead of Daz Studio.

Connect is also plug-and-play for content, but it doesn't work for plug-ins and sadly few scripts are written in a way that is comnpatible with it. it's also not from the "old days" - DIM is older, and Daz Central is pretty much just a skin on DIM.

Too many steps that have to be followed in a specific order. The average user will find it to be way too intimidating. I consider myself to be one of those average users. If DAZ wants to sell more products then they should cater to our average users. Make it as close to plug-and-play as they can. The old days of choosing to install through DAZ Studios ONLY should be eliminated. DIM should be given as the only effective install workflow. DAZ Central is too glitchy to use; either eliminate it or make it work just like DIM, only with perks for those who like it. What perks? Incorporate the graphics, news, or whatever-- just keep the installation faculties the same as DIM. That's my 2 cents. Giving users a step-by-step for install has become a frustrating waste of time because DAZ is constantly changing things and their minds. Just keep it simple and straightforward.

hi, i'm having the same problem. Daz is now on the C drive and i'd like to get, at least my content, on my D drive. is this as simple as just moving the Studio folder to the D drive? or do i need to do it thru Daz Central? btw, where is this link: Edit>Preferences>Content>Content Directory Manager. as far as i can tell this new Daz does not have the Install Manager. at least, i can't find it.

Is this linked to the problems we're getting with DIM, getting ssl 11 handshake errors and won't download any content. 
 

Daz central won't even show purchased content. 

It does have a Carrara version, but I don't think Daz Central should be trying to instal it. Please report this to support via a ticket. If you use Install manager it should pick up the Daz Central path settings and allow you to choose which parts to install. https://www.daz3d.com/get_install_manager/