DISCLAIMER: I'm very bad at explaining problems, because when I get stressed my brain confuses itself. If you don't understand what I'm trying to say, that's ok. I don't really understand it myself either!

Basically, I've ended up with two separate installs of Daz Studio. One of them - let's call it Install A - seems to exist entirely on an external harddrive (G:), where Daz Central installed it without my knowledge. I set DC up to put my downloads there, so verything I install goes to Install A. (Including an extra copy of DS itself.) However, A cannot be launced, because apparently DS can't live on an external device or something? If there's a way to actually launch and use A, that would be neat.

The other one - Install B - lives on one of my two desktop drives, (called F:). B is completely empty. My online best friend walked me through how to make Studio recognize external directories. (I'm sorry if I mess up the terminology - I'm talking about the folder hierarchy where items are stored.) We successfully managed to get Install B to pull items from custom folders on G, the external drive. The problem is that I had already uninstalled around half of the Studio content I had in B, via the uninstall function in Daz Central. I needed disc space! So yeah, every single scene and subset is missing a few items. 

Now here's the problem. Install A is probably completely useless. Howevz, Daz Central installed a lot of the content missing from B into it, before I discovered there was another whole DS installation in there. I guess I could copy and paste all of that back into B, but I do not want it stored on my F: drive. I need space on there for my other things! I want it in the custom folders associated with B - which also exist on the external device but should be completely separate from Install A. Can I copy it from A into those custom folders, or would that make things just.... worse?

Also, I completely failed at getting things to install properly into my custom folder system, so I need to let DC do the job for me. I have really bad inattentive ADHD, and I mean really bad, I mean actual neuro-divergency level bad, and so I always have to try not to get confused to the level where the mess in my head carries over into other things I need to do during the day. That's why I have to do things certain ways that seem backwards to others. Either I have to let things go to A first and copy them from there, or I need to redirect Central back to the original file hierarchy on F: (which is still intact, just empty) and copy from there. Can I do it this way, without messing things up further?

Am I making any sense here? I've confused people while trying to explain much simpler things. Screenshots can be made, if there's any specific thing you want to get a visual of.

Thanks in advance for reading this and being willing to try helping!

products has disappeared from content library

IM says there are only a few things installed, daz central shows all of the many items are still installed, I have restarted

 

also there is no choice for charecters under people-g8f, there are clothers there, when g8f is clicked there are no icons to choose the g8f figure

i thought g9f was istalled and maybe version 4.21 but stil lsays 4.20

I think the Victoria 9 pre-sales bonus was going on right up until Victoria 9 was released today.  Apparently Daz is rolling out the delivery of V9 products in batches, so you should probably receive it soon.  Make sure you search for Voss Hair for Genesis 9 in your DIM or Daz Central to see if it's there.  Otherwise, if you don't see it in a day or two, you can open a support ticket and the Daz sales team will make sure you get your bonus item.

Richard Haseltine said:

digitell said:

I put in a ticket because not all the the items that were included in the bundle were not available for downloading. I recevide the essentitals, but there were several items missing. My Product Library page shows broken images of the items in the bundle. Cant download them.

 

Edit-1:13PM CST- I now have them all. The images on my Product Library page all show now, so I went to look inside my DIM and they are all there to download. DIM is a bit wonky tho, the filter isnt working properly..when I choose Recent Purchases First, the products show up in alphabetical order so  you got to search out the products to download.

Sort order is based on the data provided by the store.

I always sort by order date in Daz Central to help with installation. However, something is still messed up with the database.. A bunch of things I purchased in the past now show as 10.19.2022 for the order date. I have "316" items I purchased today according to Daz Central.. really? It wasn't like that until Victoria 9 showed up in my products list..

In fact if I go in my product library on the website instead, all of those random ones show up as "Order: Manually Added" - database manipulations gone wrong?  Poduct normally show my order ID in there..

yea the bundle appeared, preorder bonus still missing, but it s a beginning ;)

but it didn t show up on top in daz central for whatever reason 

Still waiting for her to appear in my daz central. 

Some of the basic V9 items just popped into my Daz Central downloader, BUT it looks like most of the stuff is avaiavble in the DAZ Install manager.  Those that pre-ordered might want to check that out.

It took a while for me, but they eventually all appeared. I think they're running some kind of script on our accounts.

A side-effect for me was, that now all of my products show up in Daz Central with a purchase date of 19.10.2022. Not the biggest problem in the world, but still slightly annoying. For sorting etc.

fastbike1 said:

Please tell me DAZ Central won't be the only way to get the bundle.

It won't be - I don't think that would be possible in any event. But some people are getting the files and some are not, Daz is aware of and working on the issue.

ArtsyDragon said:

I wondered if there was an issue on my end. I can see the products that the bundle contains but cannot get to the download page. I wondered if they were only releasing her via DAZ Central, which I do not use.

Not just you...it is an issue for some people who've posted in other threads

I filed a ticket when I figured out what was going on...Daz always comes through in the end so I'm not worried

I can still mess around with the base G9 figure and see what from G8 works on it 

Please tell me DAZ Central won't be the only way to get the bundle.

I preordered the Vic 9 bundle in September, now I am seeing all the bundle products and the two freebies (voss hair / bikini) show up in DAZ central.  Have downloaded as of 11:00 AM (Mountain Time).  Going to open up the app and see if it works.

Oddly, in DAZ Central, it reset the order date for a significant portion of my library to today (19 OCT), so I had to use two different filters to find everything.  Use 'genesis 9' filter in Daz Central for some items, and 'Victoria 9' filter for the others.  Confusing, but it all seems to be there.

Hope this helps

Woke up early this morning to play with the new figure before work, and it wasn't appearing in DIM or Daz Central. It looks as if the problem still has not been resolved? :( Well, at least I know that pre-ordering from Daz isn't a good idea now. Never making that mistake again. Really big "we already have your money, so get to the back of the line" energy.

Same, I preordered the Victoria 9 bundle and this is in Purchased status in the store but DAZ Central doesn't show. And the preorder bonuses are missing too, they are purcheable...

I did a pre order for Vic 9 and was excited to see the release today, but although the pre order is listed on my Daz products page, the items aren't appearing for download on Daz Central or DIM. Neither are the individual items listed as purchased on the various catalogue pages. Any idea when we might actually get the stuff we've bought?

Looks like that's an issue for all of us pre orders then. The pre order is listed on my product assests page on the daz site but the individual components are listed as not purchased. And of course, nothing is listed as available for download on Daz Central.

I have a receipt that affirms that yes, I bought these products, and yes, Paypal sent me a receipt for $78 too.

It's not in my DIM. It's not in Smart Content. It's not in Daz Central. When I tried to download from the website, it shows files, but when I click on them, it spins endlessly.

The pro bundle on the store site says that YES, I do own it. Only thing is, NONE OF THE CONTENTS OF THE PRO BUNDLE ON THE STORE SITE SAY I PURCHASED THEM.

I filled out a support ticket. Let's hope that THIS time at least, they actually answer, unlike the ringing silence I've been getting for the past year.

 

ArtsyDragon said:

I wondered if there was an issue on my end. I can see the products that the bundle contains but cannot get to the download page. I wondered if they were only releasing her via DAZ Central, which I do not use.

I use Daz central, she is not there.

I wondered if there was an issue on my end. I can see the products that the bundle contains but cannot get to the download page. I wondered if they were only releasing her via DAZ Central, which I do not use.

weiglh said:

Haruchai said:

generalgameplaying said:

CMKook-24601 said:

Not sure if anyone else has had this issue, but I preordered the V9 bundle (the big one) and as of 7:44am Oct 19 2022 I still do not have access to download any of it, not via Daz Central, not the DIM nor manual install.

This is really bad look for Daz3d as a company, they should have been sure to have all the preorder downloads ready to launch BEFORE launching for purchase to the store. If you preordered you should NOT be stuck unable to get the items you paid for with no recourse other than Daz3d slow ticket system.

Whatever the reason, the presales bundle content just isn't there. The Starter Essentials got assigned correctly and could be downloaded - they're for free and in the shop now. 

Do i understand this right? Those who preordered don't have Victoria 9 HD content but those who buy now have? That would be bugs then.

If just no one has Victoria 9 yet, i'd put that under hiccough, or maybe it's even smart to first iron out bugs of the general package, then start the specialized one. Though with ordinary sales being up, that doesn't appear to be the strategy at all...

 

Preorders do not seem to have been allocated yet but buying now will give you access to the files. I guess it's a manual process, or button press, that needs to happen DAZ side to add the items to our available items/DIM. Waiting patiently for that to happen.

If you shop here and don't expect things like this and get worked up about it you are going to shave years off your life with stress.

I have purchased the preorder-bundle and can't download the items either. When I try to 'purchase' the items separate, as you suggested, it wants me to pay them separate. So, at least for me, your idea doesn't work.

 

 What I meant was new purchasers can buy them and get them now, preorder people will have to wait for them to be added to their accounts not buy them again.