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Error installing Loretta Lorez

RakudaRakuda Posts: 938
edited December 1969 in New Users

When I installed the Loretta Lorez package along side Lorenzo, she would not show in my DAZ installation. If I am not mistaken from what little I know yet, they were incorrectly being interpreted as the CR2 files were preceeded not by one exclamation point, but by two.

As soon as I made this file name correction, everything worked like a charm!

If I am correct, the current installer needs to be corrected. If I am blissfully ignorant feel free to correct me.

Brian

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,613
    edited December 1969

    That's odd, exclamation points are just treated as ordinary characters, two shouldn't cause a problem. Are you installing with DIM or manually?

  • RakudaRakuda Posts: 938
    edited December 1969

    fixmypcmike said:
    That's odd, exclamation points are just treated as ordinary characters, two shouldn't cause a problem. Are you installing with DIM or manually?

    Well, I just noticed that the Lorenzo CR2 files were prefixed by ! and the Loretta CR2 files were prefixed by !!. I also noted some other CR2 files that began with a single ! from another vendor, so I figured what could hurt to assume it was a standard syntax and try it out. Seems to have worked for me, coincident or not.

    Brian

  • JimmyC_2009JimmyC_2009 Posts: 8,891
    edited December 1969

    My Loretta Lorez has two exclamation marks in front of the name of the CR2 file, and it does not affect it in any way

    Installed content not showing up can be as simple as using the right click 'Refresh' option on the Library folder (My DAZ 3D Library) to make it show. Installing content with DAZ Studio open at the same time can cause problems as well.

    I know you have it working now, but I just added this for completeness.

  • RakudaRakuda Posts: 938
    edited December 1969

    Cool! Thanks Jimmy. Just learning here. Hope I didn't cause any confusion. I did install using the DAZ Install manager. However Lorenzo was just one file, where Loretta was two different files, one for Poser and another for StudioCF. I also noted that there were three other executables downloadable from my account page that seemed to contain various parts of the package:

    Installed through Install Manager:

    Loretta Lorez Ps 48.05 MB
    Loretta Lorez StudioCF 7.41 MB

    Installed Manually:

    8891_3_ds_LorettaLorez_3.exe 8.21 MB
    8891_5_dpc_LorettaLorez_5.exe 45.78 MB
    8891_6_LorettaLorez_6.exe 3.44 MB

    Surprisinigly, Lorenzo was just one installer file:

    Lorenzo Lorez 67.81 MB

    I've got so much to learn...

    ^__^

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited December 2014

    A note of caution — the files you installed through DIM are the current versions, the ones you installed manually are the older versions, there might be some differences. Also, if you installed the old ones over the new ones this might cause some problems when you try to place the figures in your scene.

    DAZ is part way through converting all its store items from the older executable installers to the new .zip installers run through DIM, but the job is not quite finished yet and some of the old files will still show in your downloads page. Do not try to install the old executable files as well as the new ones. That's the difference between the two products, the old Lorenzo files have been removed, but the old Loretta files are still there. Ignore them.

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  • RakudaRakuda Posts: 938
    edited December 1969

    SpottedKitty said:
    A note of caution — the files you installed through DIM are the current versions, the ones you installed manually are the older versions, there might be some differences. Also, if you installed the old ones over the new ones this might cause some problems when you try to place the figures in your scene.

    DAZ is part way through converting all its store items from the older executable installers to the new .zip installers run through DIM, but the job is not quite finished yet and some of the old files will still show in your downloads page. Do not try to install the old executable files as well as the new ones. That's the difference between the two products, the old Lorenzo files have been removed, but the old Loretta files are still there. Ignore them.

    Hey, thanks for the info. Yes, hopefully there will be a converted update. Also, if they were previous version files, then they seem to contain different partial content. For example:

    The "Version 3" file is 8MB
    8891_3_ds_LorettaLorez_3.exe 8.21 MB

    The "Version 5" file is 45 MB
    8891_5_dpc_LorettaLorez_5.exe 45.78 MB

    The Version 6 file is 3MB
    8891_6_LorettaLorez_6.exe 3.44 MB

    All that being said, I do have it working now, so all of this is beside that point and just about the curiosity of how the Loretta Lorez file installs versus the Lorenzo file. I may just wait for that updated file and deal with what I have working now. Will ignore previous version files from now on if I encounter them.

    -Rak

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited December 1969

    rakuda1970 said:
    Also, if they were previous version files, then they seem to contain different partial content.

    You;'ve got caught up in the old way of splitting installers for just Poser or just DAZ|Studio. The numbers aren't versions, they're part numbers. Look at the installer names; the "ds" file is for D|S, the "dpc" one is for Poser. If the ds file is a lot smaller than the dpc one, then it contains only D|S materials settings, the dpc contains the actual figure data (in Poser format) and textures. If they're both roughly the same size, they're both full, independent installers.

    Something else to watch for in the old installers, there was a size limit so really big installations had to be split up into multiple files. This might be where the third file you listed comes from.

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