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Installer Download Location

JohnBearJohnBear Posts: 0
edited December 2013 in New Users

Hi Folks,

Brand new user here. How new? The electrons are still drying on my invoices. . .

My question involves the DAZ Installer Program. Nice piece of software, btw.

So I'm downloading and I see that I have thing *downloading* someplace where I don't want them. For the installs the default file paths work fine. But I would rather have all the actual downloads (a.k.a. the install files) sitting on another hard drive.

So I stopped the download, changed the settings (thanks for including that feature) and now the downloads are going where I want.

Can I just move the other already downloaded files to that (new) location? Or do I have to do something else? After noticing what was going on I also stopped the "install after download" switch.

Thanks in advance for the help

Post edited by JohnBear on

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  • namffuaknamffuak Posts: 4,146
    edited December 1969

    You can move the files - just copy (move) everything in the old download directory.

  • JohnBearJohnBear Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Awesome. That's exactly what I was hoping to hear. Thanks for the quick reply.

    PS - that's a cool sig.

  • namffuaknamffuak Posts: 4,146
    edited December 1969

    dazstudio said:

    PS - that's a cool sig.

    Thanks - that's the observation from 20 years as a systems programmer and sys-admin.

    I probably should add the other observation to it: "Putt knot yore faith inn spill chukkers."

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    dazstudio said:
    Hi Folks,

    Brand new user here. How new? The electrons are still drying on my invoices. . .

    My question involves the DAZ Installer Program. Nice piece of software, btw.

    So I'm downloading and I see that I have thing *downloading* someplace where I don't want them. For the installs the default file paths work fine. But I would rather have all the actual downloads (a.k.a. the install files) sitting on another hard drive.

    So I stopped the download, changed the settings (thanks for including that feature) and now the downloads are going where I want.

    Can I just move the other already downloaded files to that (new) location? Or do I have to do something else? After noticing what was going on I also stopped the "install after download" switch.

    Thanks in advance for the help

    John Strasser
    Scottsdale AZ

    just make sure you Map the new path inside Daz Studio so it knows where to look.
  • namffuaknamffuak Posts: 4,146
    edited December 1969

    Szark said:
    dazstudio said:
    Hi Folks,

    Brand new user here. How new? The electrons are still drying on my invoices. . .

    My question involves the DAZ Installer Program. Nice piece of software, btw.

    So I'm downloading and I see that I have thing *downloading* someplace where I don't want them. For the installs the default file paths work fine. But I would rather have all the actual downloads (a.k.a. the install files) sitting on another hard drive.

    So I stopped the download, changed the settings (thanks for including that feature) and now the downloads are going where I want.

    Can I just move the other already downloaded files to that (new) location? Or do I have to do something else? After noticing what was going on I also stopped the "install after download" switch.

    Thanks in advance for the help

    John Strasser
    Scottsdale AZ

    just make sure you Map the new path inside Daz Studio so it knows where to look.

    Ah - studio does not need to have the DIM download folder mapped - there's nothing there for studio to work with.

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    I didn't say that. I said the new location that the OP has moved the content too needs mapping.

  • JohnBearJohnBear Posts: 0
    edited December 2013

    Thanks Szark. I'm only moving the install files though, not the actual installed content.

    Install files which are never used but occasionally I keep stored on a slower and separate hardrive, which doesn't need to be backed up all that often, unlike my system or userdata drives.

    Post edited by JohnBear on
  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    Doh! sorry about that.

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