NAS = Network Attached Storage

In simplest terms its a computer that is filled with storage that is configured to act as storage to other devices on the network. It appears to my desktop simply as my D drive. It acts as a DVR for my TV, and my tablet and phone, and is otherwise the central storage device for all of my and my wife's data. All of our music, photos, movies etc. are there. It's just one device that needs to be backed up. It has greatly simplified that part of my life.

To get so much storage to look like one drive I use RAID, in this case RAID 10. I bought 8 refurbed 4Tb drives since I'm not worried about drives failures as I do backups and can withstand a single drive failure.

Happening to me too but I discovered a trick 

Go to smart content and you'll see its picture in black and white, right click and click install and hope it goes to the drive you want 

I still can't find measure metrics even after searching it under all products so it's not working for everything 

Install Manager and Daz Central are both down for me too 

Just for the record, I just placed an order for 2 items from the 50% off sale ( Mesh grabber rotations add on & Dial control) they both showed up 50 % off in my cart, added my monthly PA coupon which took off the 6.00$ checked out using store credit, processed instantly and shows up in DIM for download with no issues. Just downloaded and installed Dial control smoothly.

I had no issues with my sale, but Mesh grabber shows no info in my Product library other than the blib about using Daz Central which I have no use for and refuse to test considering the numerous issues others have had with it,

@Kharma, There was some odd issue with the Addon that for some reason requires the DIM installer. It's on Daz's end, and nothing the PA can do. Did you download and install the Addon via DIM? If so, you should be good to go, (assuming you already have Mesh Grabber, of course!) The Rotations Addon adds functionality to the existing Mesh Grabber, so you won't see another tool, but you will see addtional options in the Tool Settings tab. The Addon also requires the latest version of Mesh Grabber, so you may need to update that, if you haven't already.

If you can't seem to download and install the Addon, the PA may be able to help. You can get help, and more info from the commercial thread for the Mesh Grabber Rotations Addon here, (if you need the link.)

Add me to the list. Products do not appear in DIM or Central. Had trouble at the checkout as well today. Plus Central wouldn't update, had to manually download. 

I've submitted 3 tickets this week due to issues with DIM and my PC+ account vanishing.

Seems like DIM is not recognizing people's purchases.

Made a purchase this morning, shows up in Product Library... not in DIM.

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What did you purchase? Could DIM filters maybe explain why it doesn't show?

ps: Same here nothing in DIM and DAZ Central I bought today.

Seems like DIM is not recognizing people's purchases.

Made a purchase this morning, shows up in Product Library... not in DIM.

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What did you purchase? Could DIM filters maybe explain why it doesn't show?

Try Daz Studio > Smart Content  (Product> All product selected in the tabs)  > you will have Available products at the button of the window. 

  If DIM and DAZ Central fails, this still works. XP

ps: Don't forget to set it back to installed after you finished or you will be searching for your product, where have they gone missing. :)

Just for the record, I just placed an order for 2 items from the 50% off sale ( Mesh grabber rotations add on & Dial control) they both showed up 50 % off in my cart, added my monthly PA coupon which took off the 6.00$ checked out using store credit, processed instantly and shows up in DIM for download with no issues. Just downloaded and installed Dial control smoothly.

I had no issues with my sale, but Mesh grabber shows no info in my Product library other than the blib about using Daz Central which I have no use for and refuse to test considering the numerous issues others have had with it,

I was thinking I had been careful not to download it, but when checking DIM, I couldn't get anything to come up. I was concerned I might have downloaded it if it were hiding under an ambiguous name. Especially now that it's being shoved in our faces so much.

Looking at the sales thread, everybody is having trouble with DIM at the moment - and you still have to go to a separate page to download Daz Central; the Central links on the order page and in the product library link to that page, they don't immediately download or install anything, there are still extra steps after that.

One tricky link, especially if you're used to the 'download all' button at Rendo, is on the order page. Under 'download entire order', the Download and install-link goes to the Daz Central page.

Yeah managed to order the things I wanted, but having to manually download them as DiM is throwing up download failed now.. Just not my day today.. lol

If you look at the product icon in the products tab of Smart Content a DIM (or Daz Central) install will be in colour but will have a solid triangle in a circle at top-right, and if you right-click on it you will see the Install option; If there is no triangle, and right-click has an uninstall option, it was a Connect install.

Add me to the list.  Purchase last night:

Character Converter from Genesis 3 Female to Genesis 8

Genesis 3 Character UVs for Genesis 8 Female

XTransfer - Genesis 3 to Genesis 8 Converter

Nothing showing up in DAZ Central or Install Manager.  Had to manually download, but its been a long time since I installed manually and of course the scripts don't show up in DAZ.  

Hmm, the drive towards Central does also coincidentally make it much harder for people to use external content, since Central doesn't see that. Another reason not to use it (not that I'm letting it near my computer again anyway - it was hard enough to remove after having a look at it the first time round).

I also filed a ticket about the (maddening to me) website Product Library Page "update"  and also got the same reply that they'd "pass along the feedback to the team etc" but not making any promises about anything happening.    In my post I asked what it even served Daz to strip out info/functions on the page since I could think of no pressing advantage or reason to do so unless to simply "break" the value of the page to drive users to adopt Daz Central.....
   ~Gen

 

Well one purpose it serves is to make it more difficult or impossible for customers to find information needed to submit requests (such as refunds) to customer service. But with that new limitation in mind I will be purchasing a lot less at DAZ

Oh my goodness! I just checked nhc.noaa.gov and we have an orange X right over Florida!  THAT was unexpected!!!!  It has a 50% chance of formation, BAMM, just like that- and you East Coast folks are possibly going to get something going up the coast. They say "paralleling" at the moment, ("initially paralleling") but we know how that can change in a heartbeat. It says moving away from land though. So check that out if you are Georgia, Carolinas, and on up the coast for the next few days. I mean, wow, nothing like going to check on those two X's out in the Atlantic and seeing an ORANGE X (not yellow) about five hours driving time from your house! 

Yep, I saw that last night; but no information on it yet at Tropical Tidbits

I put in for a refund for my entire order of old products bought tonight - not one single item appeared in my dim and from the looks of it the only options being offered to download is central and or manual zip both which don't use actually one is zip only though on their pages dim is listed

DIM uses the same files and servers as DazCentral and manual install, so they should be listed. It might be that you have a filter set in DIM which prevents them from appearing though...

The products you linked to all list "Daz Studio" not "Daz Studio 4.12" on the product page, so if you only have "DS 4.5+" selected in DIM filters they probably won't appear, for example.

I put in for a refund for my entire order of old products bought tonight - not one single item appeared in my dim and from the looks of it the only options being offered to download is central and or manual zip both which don't use actually one is zip only though on their pages dim is listed

That's weird, the large purchase of older items I made a few hours ago are all showing up in DIM.

tried several times without any luck, not been having a lot of luck lately with purchases had a lot of stuff not showing up in right locations or missiing files or other problems these were new releases too but tonight bought bunch of pretty old I think content well other add on content poses I didn't get are from the Michael/Vicky 4 days

https://www.daz3d.com/the-village-blacksmith

https://www.daz3d.com/old-forge

https://www.daz3d.com/old-west-saloon

https://www.daz3d.com/the-old-west-saloon-interior

https://www.daz3d.com/old-west-undertakers-interior

https://www.daz3d.com/old-west-mercantile-interior

https://www.daz3d.com/old-west-sheriffs-office-interior

I put in for a refund for my entire order of old products bought tonight - not one single item appeared in my dim and from the looks of it the only options being offered to download is central and or manual zip both which don't use actually one is zip only though on their pages dim is listed

That's weird, the large purchase of older items I made a few hours ago are all showing up in DIM.

I put in for a refund for my entire order of old products bought tonight - not one single item appeared in my dim and from the looks of it the only options being offered to download is central and or manual zip both which don't use actually one is zip only though on their pages dim is listed

I also filed a ticket about the (maddening to me) website Product Library Page "update"  and also got the same reply that they'd "pass along the feedback to the team etc" but not making any promises about anything happening.    In my post I asked what it even served Daz to strip out info/functions on the page since I could think of no pressing advantage or reason to do so unless to simply "break" the value of the page to drive users to adopt Daz Central.   I mentioned that with 5836 products (per my DIM info), a really lousy store search function on Daz3d, and a very tedious, hit&miss mess of content mgmt system in DazStudio itself, that for me (& others) the fastest way to look for/browse purchased content when deciding on what you need for a scene you're working on is to go to the Product Library page, and you can filter by obvious words to narrow your surfing or just click title after title without any filters and you can quickly see a picture and DETAILS for EVERY PRODUCT without having to open a PRODUCT PAGE to READ DETAILS for every one. Also, very helpful to see ORDER# info.  

UGH- (smacking self upside the head) for ages I used to "harvest" ALL PROMO IMAGES and screengrab the product page/details and file them with revised names per product & type (e.g., PROPS, CHARS, SETS, VEHICLES, SHADERS, etc) into a folder set of folders per type-- so that I could always have the product promos & details for reference, even when internet was out. But after years of so doing and then too much real life, I stopped "harvesting" when I bought, the backlog got overwhelming, and so I gave that up, and especially began relying on website's Product Library page for reviewing/surfing my content. OF COURSE, scant months later, various PRODUCTS (including many I have) began to disappear from the store, their details/promos GONE, and so... here we are!   ; (       This is a lesson I keep getting taught & forgetting over & over it seems: digital content is not reliable, unless you HAVE IT COPIED on some device of your control.  Rhapsody, anyone? An early music store that went away, too bad about your purchased library. Never mind all the movie purchase & streaming platforms where they even state the movie you buy may not alway be available in future, and content that goes away according to the latest licensing deals between the studios & platforms. UGH, so much hate :) for this stuff.  ;)      Consumerism is just too much heartbreak & hard work!

@Novica - as I recall, even the Christmas PA Giveaway items did originally have descriptions and details on their product pages when they released to the store.    
   ~Gen

Perhaps Daz sees the single-frame market as less desirable than game gear, and they've decided to put us in our place. Duly noted.

Which is ironic, as people who are into games and animation are more likely going to be even MORE concerned with having access to the info that they've deleted, because that's a business, as well as being far more likely to use unconventional runtime schemes that DAZ Central can't handle.  Beyond that, this will be what... DAZ's third or fourth time to try to break into a different market since the introduction of DS 4.0, and how well have any of those attempts gone? 

Same answer for me as well.

I'm in the middle of reorganising and updatng my local storage of 3d files, so yeah, I have also recently needed the information that was still there a few days ago, and almost certainly will need again. Maybe I should start keeping my order overview in a local copy too (probably should have done so from the start, but hey), in case that suddenly goes away as well.

If this is the way forward, well... I'm just making sure that I have the install files for the current version of Studio safely on a harddisk or two, lest a future version is suddenly Central only. I also may not be spending as much.