Don't install central - for a lot of people it messes up quite a lot of things. It IS a beta ...

Are you using DIM to download? In that case you should get 118 without installing central.

Else you should be abel to download the exe from here: https://www.daz3d.com/downloader/customer/files#prod_13176

Click on the gear icon in the upper right corner f DIM. Select Basic Settings. It shows a link for Manifest Archive. Is that link correct? Click the link. Are your DIM manifest files there? Manifest files are  DSX files that DIM saves so it knows what it has installed. If they get moved or deleted, DIM won't know what it has previously installed. If you installed Daz Central at some time, it may well have mucked with your DIM file paths. People have been screaming loudly about that problem in the forum. 

Well, this has stuffed up my system! It's trying to install the DAZ programs to my runtime (E: RUNTIMES) instead of where my programs are (F: Programs). I have an SSD drive as my C drive, and no matter what I do, DAZ does weird things and insists on putting files on the C Drive. This new DIM version is screwing it all up even more! I now seem to have program and library files all over my C, E and F drives. And it won't install a bunch of stuff it told me I have to have - I get the same messages someone earlier on this board did. I am struggling enough with space, I really didn't need a rogue installation. SIGH! I have to go finish a job now, will spend time later going through all the replies here. Very disheartening. :(

Install Manager or Central? If it's Install manager check the path settings

 

Install Manager. I have checked all the install directories, they have not changed, but still today it's reading 12 items installed (which installed just before I sent my desperate message) and 7821 to install - ie it is not looking at the correct folder for my installed items. Same issue with the Central, and in Studio I had to resolve the issue by re-importing metadata. So now I have no idea what has changed. 

Is your DIM manifest archive directory correct? If you look in that folder, are all the manifest files there?

Ummmm... what am I looking for, where, please? Thanks!

Question:

Can´t load the script. Logfile says:

2020-07-07 22:22:09.860 Loading script: D:/DAZ/Connect Content/data/cloud/1_68845/scripts/pose fusion/pose fusion.dse
2020-07-07 22:22:09.860 Failed to load script: D:/DAZ/Connect Content/data/cloud/1_68845/scripts/pose fusion/pose fusion.dse

I try other scripts - load normaly.

Update Metadata helps not.

Uninstall and re-install even not helps.

Using DAZ Studio 4.10 Pro

 

So any suggestions what to try best next?

Uninstall the Connect version and install using Install Manager or Daz Central, the script appears not to be written to work with Connect

Thanks - install with Daz Central also not solve my problem but it´s ok :)

Have you changed your content directories (or installed Daz Central)? If you open

%AppData%/daz 3d/studio4/customactions.dsx

in a text editor is it legible?

Well, this has stuffed up my system! It's trying to install the DAZ programs to my runtime (E: RUNTIMES) instead of where my programs are (F: Programs). I have an SSD drive as my C drive, and no matter what I do, DAZ does weird things and insists on putting files on the C Drive. This new DIM version is screwing it all up even more! I now seem to have program and library files all over my C, E and F drives. And it won't install a bunch of stuff it told me I have to have - I get the same messages someone earlier on this board did. I am struggling enough with space, I really didn't need a rogue installation. SIGH! I have to go finish a job now, will spend time later going through all the replies here. Very disheartening. :(

Install Manager or Central? If it's Install manager check the path settings

 

Install Manager. I have checked all the install directories, they have not changed, but still today it's reading 12 items installed (which installed just before I sent my desperate message) and 7821 to install - ie it is not looking at the correct folder for my installed items. Same issue with the Central, and in Studio I had to resolve the issue by re-importing metadata. So now I have no idea what has changed. 

Is your DIM manifest archive directory correct? If you look in that folder, are all the manifest files there?

Well, this has stuffed up my system! It's trying to install the DAZ programs to my runtime (E: RUNTIMES) instead of where my programs are (F: Programs). I have an SSD drive as my C drive, and no matter what I do, DAZ does weird things and insists on putting files on the C Drive. This new DIM version is screwing it all up even more! I now seem to have program and library files all over my C, E and F drives. And it won't install a bunch of stuff it told me I have to have - I get the same messages someone earlier on this board did. I am struggling enough with space, I really didn't need a rogue installation. SIGH! I have to go finish a job now, will spend time later going through all the replies here. Very disheartening. :(

Install Manager or Central? If it's Install manager check the path settings

Install Manager. I have checked all the install directories, they have not changed, but still today it's reading 12 items installed (which installed just before I sent my desperate message) and 7821 to install - ie it is not looking at the correct folder for my installed items. Same issue with the Central, and in Studio I had to resolve the issue by re-importing metadata. So now I have no idea what has changed. 

Question:

Can´t load the script. Logfile says:

2020-07-07 22:22:09.860 Loading script: D:/DAZ/Connect Content/data/cloud/1_68845/scripts/pose fusion/pose fusion.dse
2020-07-07 22:22:09.860 Failed to load script: D:/DAZ/Connect Content/data/cloud/1_68845/scripts/pose fusion/pose fusion.dse

I try other scripts - load normaly.

Update Metadata helps not.

Uninstall and re-install even not helps.

Using DAZ Studio 4.10 Pro

 

So any suggestions what to try best next?

Uninstall the Connect version and install using Install Manager or Daz Central, the script appears not to be written to work with Connect.

sorry if this has already been asked/answered. 

What is daz central?  I keep trying to update to .118 (from .117) and it keeps taking me to a page that asks me to register or login.  I login, but then it starts to download this daz central thing. I went to my product library and there it is at the top of the product list.

I don't know what's in it, I don't want it to mess up my current version of ds, and I don't want any more 'free products'.  How do I just get ds .118 without central?

Yes, I think so. Before you use DIM to install any products, it is important to set up the application and content paths for where you want things installed. Most people don't have infinitely large system drives and like to install content on a second hard drive. There is a gear icon in the upper right corner of the DIM window to access those settings.

• DIM has been reliable for me. I had numerous problems with Daz Connect (installing from within Daz Studio). I have not tried Daz Central, but reports in the forum are not good.
• DIM can install the main Daz program (including Beta versions) and plugins. Sometimes these are not available as manual downloads.
• Once a product is installed with DIM, if there is a product update in the future, DIM will show you that the update is available and make it easy to install that update.
• DIM will automatically install the metadata for the product. You don't have to manually update metadata.
• If a product is installed with DIM, you can right click on the product in DIM and have it show you a complete list of files included in that product and give you a link to each one of those files, so you can find it on your computer, if you need to.
• DIM has lots of search filters to find just what products you want to see in the interface.
• DIM makes it very easy to uninstall a product that you installed with DIM. You don't have to hunt around and manually remove any files.

I recently started to have this issue that when I close the main window using the X, the window closes but the program keeps running in the background, using memory and cpu time, unless I kill the task using the task manager.

Anyone else noticed this?

It was happening with both the latest release version and the one before that .117 and .118 I think.

It doesn't always behaves like this, but very frequently, about 9 out of 10 times.

It seems to have started happening after I installed Daz Central. But that might be just a coincidence.

There should be no issue, I suspect part of your problem may be that you are not using the default paths and Daz Central does use defaults. Check that DIM is isntalling to the content directories that you have set in DS, and that those are the directories with your content.

There is NO ReadMe file included with the product, at least not with my install via DAZ Central, or in the manual download zip files. Is that an error in the included download files, and a ReadMe actually exists? If so, how about linking it here or something please.

There is a readme with the product...the product itself is also laid out step by step in your library...and I have posted instructions here (and several other thread)

So I think it's a problem with the G8F version of the product. I just bought the G8M NoSuit, and the PDF is there for it, but there's NOT an instruction file in the female product.

Thanks a lot, i thought that Daz Central was the new "install manager" but i've just dowloaded install manager and it did the job !
Thanks again for your help ;)

Those are used by Install Manager and, I assume, Daz Central - you can ignore them.

Thanks. So, they still don't appear in Daz Central, so i tried to put the files in "install manager\downloads" but it doesn't work too.
In manual installation, i have merged the fils in... i hope, the right folder but there are two fils "manifest.dsx & content.dsx" that i don't know where to put.

Looks like an old thread, but I just experienced this as well. DAZ Central just reported on the dashboard that I didn't have DAZ Studio installed even though I installed it long ago via the legacy DIM. After DAZ Central said I didn't have it installed the windows went white.

When I opened DIM  to uninstall/reinstall it no longer recognized that I had DS installed; so, there was no option to uninstall DS in DIM. But, in DAZ Central on the dashboard I clicked the prompt to install DAZ Studio. It appeared to go through a short repair process which fixed the issue.

Hope this helps..

Daz Central looks at more than just the core application - it also checks to see if soem add-ons are installed. If choosing the install option was quick that probably indicates that it was just some plug-in or small content package that was "missing".

If you were using custom paths, especially for the Manifest Directory in DIM, then Daz central will have reset them - that would be wgy it doesn't see the application as installed.

It should appear in Daz Central, as far as I know. The folders from within the Content folder in the zip need to merge with the matching folders in My Daz 3D ibrary, on Windows you can just drag them across and say yes when asked if you want to merge them.

There is NO ReadMe file included with the product, at least not with my install via DAZ Central, or in the manual download zip files. Is that an error in the included download files, and a ReadMe actually exists? If so, how about linking it here or something please.

There is a readme with the product...the product itself is also laid out step by step in your library...and I have posted instructions here (and several other thread)

Looks like an old thread, but I just experienced this as well. DAZ Central just reported on the dashboard that I didn't have DAZ Studio installed even though I installed it long ago via the legacy DIM. After DAZ Central said I didn't have it installed the windows went white.

When I opened DIM  to uninstall/reinstall it no longer recognized that I had DS installed; so, there was no option to uninstall DS in DIM. But, in DAZ Central on the dashboard I clicked the prompt to install DAZ Studio. It appeared to go through a short repair process which fixed the issue.

Hope this helps..