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Two Directories Issues

YinghiYinghi Posts: 6
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

A few weeks back, I took advanage Daz's big Gen3 and V4 sales; buy one item at regular price and selected others were only $4.00. And while getting bundles usually going for +$100.00 for only $4.00 is great, I discovered some issues while trying to use some of the new software. It appears at some time my directories were modified, I now have 2 sets of DAZ 3D libraries: ( sorry, my .PNG images won't load)

 Daz Connect Data:

 - /Users/Marc/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Daz Connect Library

DAZ Studio Formats:

 - /Users/Marc/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Library

 - /Users/Public/Documents/DAZ 3D/My DAZ 3D Library

Poser Formats:

 - /Users/Marc/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Library

 - /Users/Public/Documents/DAZ 3D/My DAZ 3D Library

and the Install Manager has also changed the location for downloads:

/Users/Public/Documents/DAZ 3D/InstallManager/Downloads

Case in point: Victoria 4.2 Creature Creator Morphs and Victoria 4.2 Creature Creator Add Ons (located in /Users/Public/Documents/DAZ 3D/My DAZ 3D Library):

I load Victoria 4.2 base (from /Users/Marc/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Library) and PowerLoader only shows The Girl 4, V4.2: Base Morphs, V4.2 Legacy INJection Slots, and V4.2: Morphs++, no other  morph injections.

Although I can get the tail, legs, and horns morphs from Victoria 4.2 Creature Creator Add Ons to work, none of the morphs (head, body, hands, feet, and teeth) from Victoria 4.2 Creature Creator are loadable. I can locate them , but just can't get them to load. 

I'm pretty sure the base issue is having the two directories, it is the solution I'm not sure about.

1.) Copy the InstallManager folder from /Users/Public/Documents/DAZ 3D to /Users/Marc/Documents/DAZ 3D;

Change DAZ Install Manager download setting to the new folder

Uninstall all 719 items listed in DAZ Install Manager

Delete the /Users/Public/Documents/DAZ 3D folder

Reinstall all 719 items

or

2.) Uninstall everything, delete both folder and then reinstall everything all over again.

Any suggestions on the best course of action?

Comments

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,718

    I would suggest uninstalling the morph and base figure sets that are in the My Library folder and using DIM to install those products to the My Daz 3D Library. It's only ExP expansion packs you need worry about, characters using standard morphs and thing slike clothing can safely be left alone.

  • YinghiYinghi Posts: 6
    Richard Haseltine said:

    I would suggest uninstalling the morph and base figure sets that are in the My Library folder and using DIM to install those products to the My Daz 3D Library. It's only ExP expansion packs you need worry about, characters using standard morphs and thing slike clothing can safely be left alone.

    After spending about an hour going through both DAZ 3D directories, I discovered a couple of interesting things.  I have no uninstallers in " /Users/Marc/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Library" for any of the characters.  And both  "/Users/Marc/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Library" and "/Users/Public/Documents/DAZ 3D/My DAZ 3D Library"  have copies of all the characters, although the "Public" directory also has those I download in the past couple of weeks.  I'm not sure if the outright deleting of the older copies in the "Marc/Documents" directory is the best solution, in light of the missing uninstallers, but I found no way to change the directory inside of Daz itself.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,718

    How did you install? manually unzipping obviously won't leave an uninstaller, but DIM will track its installs and can remove them.

  • YinghiYinghi Posts: 6

    How did you install? manually unzipping obviously won't leave an uninstaller, but DIM will track its installs and can remove them.

    The items in the  "/Users/Marc/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Library" directory were either downloaded manually or back in the Daz 3 days.  Everything presently in DIM, including V4, were installed to  "/Users/Public/Documents/DAZ 3D/My DAZ 3D Library".  Since some of the bundles I bought during the big sale included the base models, I'm thinking the download locations of the originals were overwritten with the newer downloads.  I can't really check right now, as I'm unable to log into DIM at the moment.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,718

    Having two installations of the base fourth generation figures (Victoria 4 etc.) can cause issues.

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