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Restoring after a crash

2sharp2sharp Posts: 54
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My dskC had a catastrophic failure. Is it possible to download DIM and Daz Studio again?

My products were backed up  but if I have lost a product can I download it again?

My account says everything  already been downloaded and I guess DIM will say

there are zero downloads ready

My DskC is by far my least capacity hard drive,

I try not to download  to it so I tried to change the download directory for daz Sudio

when I first downloaded everything but my downloads still went to Dskc:Public

Did I just not do it right or is changing the directory really not allowed

Many Thanks for the help

Comments

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    Your first 2 questions    the answers are

    Yes

    Yes

    The rest I am not sure about as I actually don't use DS   but I will try to find someone to help you.

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,330

    Can you post a screen shot of your installation tab in DIM?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,890

    The downlod path is where the zip go, by the sound of it you want to chaneg the install paths (in the instalaltion tab of DIM's preferences) and change the DS content directory settings to match - either manually or by downloading and running http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/file_io/install_manager_config_import/start

    It won't help for DS and DIM, since you have already isntalled them, but before isntalling any more applications you may want to tell Windows not to use the C: drive for documents (or pictures, videos, etc.). Go to C:\Users\YOU to find the Documents folder, right-click, select Properties, go to the Location tab, and click the Move button to set a new folder.

  • 2sharp2sharp Posts: 54

    Richard,

    Thanks for your response.I have no problem preventing things from being deposited onto DskC except DIM/Daz.

    I clicked on the link you provided and got this below

    Install Manager Config (to DAZ Studio)

    Summary

    Below is an example demonstrating how one might go about parsing information from an .ini file, converting that information into a JSON object, providing a dialog that allows an end user to select options for importing the data, and then modify the application settings to incorporate the data.

    The above was followed by many lines of HTML code. Is this really what is required to get DIM to install my products to a disk other than diskc?

    To restate my situation, more clearly, I hope;

    My dskC has been reformatted. There are no user programs installed (no DIM or DS)

    I logged into my account and I dowlnaded DIM (not to DskC)

    I logged on to DIM to download daz 4.9. Upon entering my password in DIM and pressing

    the enter key, DIM immediately began downloading all of the products that I have purchased.

    I do not want to spend the time or use all this months internet bandwith quota downloading  files that I have copies of on a hard drive.

    Nor do I want the products to be downloaded to DskC which is where DIM was downloading them.

    I thought that DIM would give me the opportunity to change the directory to where it woild download.

    Furthermore I have all my products backed up so I would like to just:

    1. download Daz Studio 4.9 to one of my larger capacity disks.

    2. Have Dim download products to my directory of choice.

    3. Move all of the products that I have already downloaded and backed up, to the directory to where I have asked DIM to download.

    So far my every attempt to do any of the above has been thwarted by all of the automatic procedures Daz studio has in place to make things simple.

    Any help to accomplish the above would be greatly appreciated.

    Many thanks,  Giovanni

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