I just submitted a ticket with screenshots - both attempting via daz install manager and daz central. but they've must've changed the choices because there was no selection for

"Missed Freebies"

we will see - they're really good at fixing their problems

It must be a mistake. I have Messages:

f) Andy Test 1

e) Testing the HTML

d) Freebie #1 — Meet the Next Star of Your Scenes (Millarose for Genesis 8 Female | Daz 3D)

c) Freebie #2 — New Hairdo Just for You (Lauren Hair for Genesis 3 and 8 Females | Daz 3D)

b) Freebie #3 — Customize Your Modern Loft (Modern Loft | Daz 3D)

a) Freebie #4 — Toon Dwayne 8 (Toon Dwayne 8 | Daz 3D)

I don't own Millarose for Genesis 8 Female | Daz 3D or Modern Loft | Daz 3D and they have not been added to my DAZ 3D Product Library so they won't show up in DIM or DAZ Central.

FREEBIE #1 — Meet the Next Star of Your Scenes Banner

Did anyone find this in DIM or Daz Central? Millarose for Genesis 8 Female | Daz 3D

I am facing the same problem and I am confused.
Out of the four items, the items I do not own are "Modern Loft" and "Toon Dwayne 8", but I cannot install either of them.
In DAZ Central, the search never ends even if I start the search, and in DIM, they do not appear in any of the tabs "Ready to Download", "Ready to install", or "Installed".

My Daz central won't even load anything right now

What a great move this has been clearly

A Mousso character I don't actually own, yes please

Any one having trouble with getting the latset freebie "Millarose for Genesis 8 Female" ? Is not showing in DIM and daz central will not even load.

Sorry Daz, but freebies aren't going to make me use Daz Central. 

Plus, nothing in the store is loading for me. 

File upload hangs while uploading. 

Try this instead.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tq7nOiMh6RlN8yx1RUB43l0wl7gp_fDv/view?usp=share_link

My version is 4.16 pro

It's not the most up-to-date version I know but when I go to Daz Central which is what I'm always advised to do I uninstall reinstall and still end up with this version.

ainm.sloinneadh said:

Thanks for the pointers! I've been using Connect and Central, and possibly DIM on occasion too. Really need to get myself more organised and disciplined on that.

Central is effectively a fancy wrapper for DIM so as far as I am aware those two can probably be used together although it probably still would make sense to pick one. Connect does things very different tho and uses a separate library configuration and structure. It also take precedence over products installed by other means which does trip up many users.

Think I'll go the manual route because none of the offered install managers organise things to my liking, plus it'd be nice to stop things like 3Delight materials ended up installed at all. My shaders folder is particularly messy - things installed all over the place but then also some categories that are big dumps of 100's of files that are difficult to browse if you don't know what you're looking for.

Well, the folder structure for products does have some rules but mainly is a set of recommendations. Plus some products are packaged incorrectly. Thus, if you do use "Content Library" more often than "Smart Content" then you will unfortuntely have several frustrations and finding things could sometimes be tricky. Manual installations would give you some control over that - although you would have to be careful of folders that cannot be changed (data & runtime) - with the downside being that it will take a lot more time to install each product. If you go that route it might be wise to seek out some advice from other users who do that.

Shutting Studio down definitely frees the system hard drive files almost instantly, so I guess I should focus on what those files are like you suggested. There may be something odd in my setup that's causing that.

I don't suppose you know where the PostgreSQL DB is stored? Wondering whether that adheres to the library drive or it's on the system drive (hopefullly with an option to store it elsewhere? Although that shouldn't have anything to do with the 17GB or even be anywhere near that size). I wonder if there's any way I can load that up in a viewer to get a look at the DB structure. More for my own curiosity and, if I'm starting from scratch, to ensure whatever I end up doing plays nicely with it.

If you go to Edit->Preferences->CMS Settings it will show you where the PostgreSQL files are stored.  By default it would be stored on your system drive - I don't remember the installer prompting for an install location. However, this is not liked to the library locations in any way - it's a separate setting. You might have some luck moving it elsewhere although I have read some posts from people that had trouble with that so proceed with caution if you try.

For some context, my CMS cluster folder is 2GB so it does take up a bit of space but not 17GB worth.

It is possible to connect directly to the database as I do that for a few reasons. However, if you do start poking about please note that this should also only be done at your own risk.

Another thing to note is that if you go down the route of installing your products manually then you will have to populate the CMS manually also.  I think most people who manually install don't tend to use Smart Content and so that is not an issue for them.

SofaCitizen said:

When rendering with Studio, my system drive fills up. I've both Studio and my content libraries stored on non-system drives, so it must be something to do with temp files too. I've not been doing any heavy rendering recently - single characters and a couple of light boards - but as an example, last night, Studio ate up 17GB of system drive space after 4 renders. I find that a staggering amount.

Are you shutting down your computer straight after closing Daz Studio? If you check out the Task Manager after closing Daz Studio you will notice that it hangs around for a while after looking like it's closed. I believe part of what it's doing here is doing a little housekeeping, so cleaning up the temp folder is probably part of that. 17GB does indeed seem pretty extreme, but perhaps if you try closing Daz Studio and then leaving your computer alone for a while it will go through and clean up some of that space?

If not, see if you can find where exactly that 17GB is coming from.

 

I guess I'm wondering whether this is normal behaviour or whether there's an error in Studio that means it's only releasing resources when on exit and not at the end of each render. It's very frustrating and renders actually get slower the longer I keep Studio open.

This part is definitely true and frequently mentioned. Any rendering and iray preview will seemingly leave little traces behind and so if you find your renders are dropping to CPU when you think they shouldn't then restarting Daz Studio might fix that.

 

I may go the nuclear option soon and delete everything Daz related and build up my library again - the structure imposed by Connect is a mess anyway, so I was already planning to move to manual installs for my own sanity. I've so many doubles in my library, as well as products installed across a few different root folders in smart content.

If you are using Daz Connect (logged into Daz within Daz Studio) in addition to using DIM or Daz Central then you will absolutely have duplicate products installed. If you do consciously want to use Daz Connect to install your content then you should not use either DIM or Daz Central - or probably install Daz Store stuff manually since Connect will probably override that.  If you do not want to use Daz Connect then you should logout of your account in Daz Studio, uninstall everything that Daz Connect has installed and reinstall it with DIM or Central (or manually if you prefer).

Thanks for the pointers! I've been using Connect and Central, and possibly DIM on occasion too. Really need to get myself more organised and disciplined on that. Think I'll go the manual route because none of the offered install managers organise things to my liking, plus it'd be nice to stop things like 3Delight materials ended up installed at all. My shaders folder is particularly messy - things installed all over the place but then also some categories that are big dumps of 100's of files that are difficult to browse if you don't know what you're looking for.

Shutting Studio down definitely frees the system hard drive files almost instantly, so I guess I should focus on what those files are like you suggested. There may be something odd in my setup that's causing that.

I don't suppose you know where the PostgreSQL DB is stored? Wondering whether that adheres to the library drive or it's on the system drive (hopefullly with an option to store it elsewhere? Although that shouldn't have anything to do with the 17GB or even be anywhere near that size). I wonder if there's any way I can load that up in a viewer to get a look at the DB structure. More for my own curiosity and, if I'm starting from scratch, to ensure whatever I end up doing plays nicely with it.

When rendering with Studio, my system drive fills up. I've both Studio and my content libraries stored on non-system drives, so it must be something to do with temp files too. I've not been doing any heavy rendering recently - single characters and a couple of light boards - but as an example, last night, Studio ate up 17GB of system drive space after 4 renders. I find that a staggering amount.

Are you shutting down your computer straight after closing Daz Studio? If you check out the Task Manager after closing Daz Studio you will notice that it hangs around for a while after looking like it's closed. I believe part of what it's doing here is doing a little housekeeping, so cleaning up the temp folder is probably part of that. 17GB does indeed seem pretty extreme, but perhaps if you try closing Daz Studio and then leaving your computer alone for a while it will go through and clean up some of that space?

If not, see if you can find where exactly that 17GB is coming from.

I guess I'm wondering whether this is normal behaviour or whether there's an error in Studio that means it's only releasing resources when on exit and not at the end of each render. It's very frustrating and renders actually get slower the longer I keep Studio open.

This part is definitely true and frequently mentioned. Any rendering and iray preview will seemingly leave little traces behind and so if you find your renders are dropping to CPU when you think they shouldn't then restarting Daz Studio might fix that.

I may go the nuclear option soon and delete everything Daz related and build up my library again - the structure imposed by Connect is a mess anyway, so I was already planning to move to manual installs for my own sanity. I've so many doubles in my library, as well as products installed across a few different root folders in smart content.

If you are using Daz Connect (logged into Daz within Daz Studio) in addition to using DIM or Daz Central then you will absolutely have duplicate products installed. If you do consciously want to use Daz Connect to install your content then you should not use either DIM or Daz Central - or probably install Daz Store stuff manually since Connect will probably override that.  If you do not want to use Daz Connect then you should logout of your account in Daz Studio, uninstall everything that Daz Connect has installed and reinstall it with DIM or Central (or manually if you prefer).

Bit of an old thread, but the closest to something I'm experiencing too.

When rendering with Studio, my system drive fills up. I've both Studio and my content libraries stored on non-system drives, so it must be something to do with temp files too. I've not been doing any heavy rendering recently - single characters and a couple of light boards - but as an example, last night, Studio ate up 17GB of system drive space after 4 renders. I find that a staggering amount. I run a small, SSD system drive, which means my system all but shuts down when Studio is utilising that much space.

There are two ways I can sort it - do a drive clean-up of temp files with Studio running or restart Studio. The used space returns in those scenarios. I would've thought that Studio would release any system resources it used when a render completes and/or I start a new one. Like Marcelle, I don't think it has anything to do with the temp folder set in Studio itself.

I thought it may be something to do with system memory caching, but then again I've 32GB RAM and the renders I've been doing are relatively light. If I leave my hard drive to fill up, I'll eventually get the 'renderer is already in use' message and Studio will need a restart.

I guess I'm wondering whether this is normal behaviour or whether there's an error in Studio that means it's only releasing resources when on exit and not at the end of each render. It's very frustrating and renders actually get slower the longer I keep Studio open. Renders are happening on the GPU too. IIRC, modern GPU drivers on Windows create a memory pool on the hard drive as well as on the GPU, so I wonder if there's an issue freeing those after renders. I've a RTX 3060ti 12GB.

Anyway, I'll continue troubleshooting, but I thought I'd post here too in case anyone has pointers on things to try. I may go the nuclear option soon and delete everything Daz related and build up my library again - the structure imposed by Connect is a mess anyway, so I was already planning to move to manual installs for my own sanity. I've so many doubles in my library, as well as products installed across a few different root folders in smart content. Plus it's incredibly difficult to compare, for example, skins when they're packaged under individual characters and not in one central place. But that's a different issue.

Greyscale thumbnails mean not installed. Try downloading this script and dragging it into the Daz Studio Viewport, that should add the current DIM/Daz Central paths (which are the same) to DS, though you may then have nested content directories http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/file_io/install_manager_config_import/start

Once you have done that, if the thumbnails are in colour and you can load the content withouyt going online, open Edit>Preferences>Content tab, click Content Directory manager, and expand the Daz Studio and Poser options to show the paths currently beeing used, take a screenshot, and post it here.

No the older version wasn't INTENTIONALLY installed. In all cases, I tried to install DS 4.21 directly from DIM (and then later, DAZ Central). It seems to be picking up 4.8 all on its own.

I don't have a 4.8 installer on this computer at all. The only ones I have are:

DAZStudio_4.21.0.5_Win64.exe
DazCentral_1.5.0.20_Win64.exe
DAZ3DIM_1.4.1.22_Win64.exe

No dice. Both DIM and DAZ Central (which I just tried as well) appear to be installing version 4.8 when you try to install 4.21.  

Other things of note: No start menu item is created, and no taskbar icon either. So something is definitely amiss with the installers.

I suspect that Richard. However I let DIM install it all (well except studio, for some reason it wont install it so I have to use Daz Central) Once it says all installed then the program is all over the place and the content is no where to be found. Although the folder where it normally installs is there. Leana, when I say phone home it won't let me work offline. I guess as Richard says the content is missing. So it connects to Daz (rather I want to or not) pop up keeps telling me log in as soons as I try to click on the content..oddly I do notice it is all in black and white where in the past they were in color. Sooo then at the bottom is claims it is installing what ever one I had clicked on, but when done there is nothing in the view window.. I might try to find someone with an older version I guess. As it seemed to always work fine in past releases. For the record I am using Windows 10 home..is that it maybe? If it is I can move up to pro easily. I have decent hardware.. Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060 ti, 8 gb.. 64 gb onboard ram. cpu is ryzen 7 5700g 8 core..it's pretty much a new computer..I just upgraded ram and moved it back to win10 since it arrived with win11

future_boy_f2de9c36c5 said:

Richard Haseltine said:

Daz central is essentailly a skin for Install Manager, certainly as far as the content installation is concerned. It is possible that there are pathing issues here, but the fix for that (as long as you don't have one content directory isntalled inside another) would eb to correct the paths rather than slog trhough a round or unisntalling and reinstalling (especially as Daz Central does not retain the zips for reinstalaltion, which Install Manager may depending on settings). Where exactly are the problem files on disc, and whata your content directorys ettings (in the Installation tab of Install Manager's setting, recehed by the gear icon, and the Daz Studio Content Directory Manager, reached by the button in the Content tab of edit Preferences (Windows)/Daz Studio>Preferences (Mac))?

On my External Hard Drive, which is an SSD.  I am using an External SSD for storage reasons. 

Doesn't help. We need to see how are the folders set in DIM and Daz Studio, take a snapshot and attach them to your post with "Attach a file" above the "Post Comment" button.

I don't use DIM, but attached you can find how to get to Content Directory Manager in DS and what we want to see in there - Expand all the paths like in the sample.

Richard Haseltine said:

Daz central is essentailly a skin for Install Manager, certainly as far as the content installation is concerned. It is possible that there are pathing issues here, but the fix for that (as long as you don't have one content directory isntalled inside another) would eb to correct the paths rather than slog trhough a round or unisntalling and reinstalling (especially as Daz Central does not retain the zips for reinstalaltion, which Install Manager may depending on settings). Where exactly are the problem files on disc, and whata your content directorys ettings (in the Installation tab of Install Manager's setting, recehed by the gear icon, and the Daz Studio Content Directory Manager, reached by the button in the Content tab of edit Preferences (Windows)/Daz Studio>Preferences (Mac))?

On my External Hard Drive, which is an SSD.  I am using an External SSD for storage reasons. 

You mean .dsf files? Those will generally be in the /data folder and will not be seen in Daz Studio - they contain the bulk of the native content data (the basic models, the way they wrap images around themselves, additional shapes, joints for figures) that is then called by the scene and preset files that you do see in the content panes. They are not directly used by you at all, as long as they are correctly installed (most easily using Install Manager or Daz Central, or installing directly through Daz Studio itself).

Daz central is essentailly a skin for Install Manager, certainly as far as the content installation is concerned. It is possible that there are pathing issues here, but the fix for that (as long as you don't have one content directory isntalled inside another) would eb to correct the paths rather than slog trhough a round or unisntalling and reinstalling (especially as Daz Central does not retain the zips for reinstalaltion, which Install Manager may depending on settings). Where exactly are the problem files on disc, and whata your content directorys ettings (in the Installation tab of Install Manager's setting, recehed by the gear icon, and the Daz Studio Content Directory Manager, reached by the button in the Content tab of edit Preferences (Windows)/Daz Studio>Preferences (Mac))?