Frustrating download issues between DAZ3D/DIM/DAZConnect: Install vs SmartContent vs ContentLib tabs

Ryuu@AMcCF · February 8

I currently have got 116 items in my Install tab. They ALL have that stenciled C with the triangle in their icons, which I'm assuming means they are downloadable via DazConnect--but since I want to minimize the mess DazConnect creates, I know I should only be using DIM to load them. [Just about everything in my SmartContent tab has that Stenciled C now since I needed to log in to download the Premier stuff]

According to their website pages here, they're ALL supposed be be loadable using DAZ Connect, DIM, or Manual Install.

According to DIM, they're ALREADY installed.

According to the Smart Content tab, they're NOT there.

According to the ContentLibrarry tab, they're STILL awaiting install.

Reloading them using DIM didn't do squat.

What The SixthLetter*, Over!?

Can this be fixed without REcreating the bloody mess that forced me to strip out EVERYTHING and start over completely from scratch, like I had to do several months back?????

Some of the sample items:

https://www.daz3d.com/a3-and-h3-shapes-for-genesis

https://www.daz3d.com/a4-and-h4-for-genesis

https://www.daz3d.com/abominable

https://www.daz3d.com/above-the-clouds-for-idl-studio

& 112 more....

Thanks in advance for any advice.

*precensored so Richard Haseltine doesn't have to

Richard Haseltine · February 8

Bump remoived.

Just because theya re available to install via Connect doesn't mean you are required to - as long as the the product thumbnail is in colour then it is fine with the DIM install 9and if it isn't then something went wrong with the DIM install and that needs to be fixed).

However, in the Public Build the Downloadable-via-Connect icon will be hidden for items installed through DIM (or, as far as I know, for items manually installed if their metadata has been imported).

Ryuu@AMcCF · February 9

Sorry about the extra post, Richard -- that was another post about me finding some bundles that needed updating, but turned out to be a non-issue.

Yeah, the 116 I mentioned in the OP are in DAZ's Install tab, and they're all gray. They don't appear at all in Smart Content tab, and in the ContentLibrary, the items are grayed with "Install Abmoninable", "Install A3 and H3 Shapes for Genesis", etc.

As I mentioned, in DIM's Installed tab, I had right-clicked the items, selected "Re-install packages", but that didn't do squat. Can you please provide instructions on how I might be able to fix them through DIM? Thanks!

Richard Haseltine · February 9

That sounds as if the content directory settings are not matching between DIM and Daz Studio - where is DIM set to instal, and where is Daz Studio looking for content? Another thing to check, if you use Windows, is that OneDrive hasn't grabbed the files and moved them into its own folders.

Ryuu@AMcCF · February 9

Thanks Richard,

DIM is set to install the products at F:/users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library

DS has the following:

cms cluster - F:/users/Panthera draco/AppData/Roaming/DAZ 3D/cms

DAZ Connect - E:/users/Panthera draco/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My DAZ 3D Library (this currently has 31 items loaded since Feb 7, including the Premeir products that I had to use Connect for downloading and the bundles I mentioned above. The remaining 12 don't appear among those 116 awaiting installation. All 31 items are showing up in the Smart Content tab)

DAZ Studio Formats -

F:/users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library

F:/users/Ryuu-Personal/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Library (these last 2 under "Ryuu-Personal" had directory trees that were copied in

F:/users/Ryuu-Personal/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My DAZ 3D Library my OneDrive Cloud, but were empty -- I've deleted their presence in the Cloud)

Poser Formats -

F:/users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library

F:/users/Ryuu-Personal/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Library

When I got this new machine, I did have to wrestle with it a bit where it came to it wanting to install a bunch of mulch†* into the Cloud OneDrive. I'm pretty sure I was successful to keep it all on my local drives. This morning, I confirmed there was still nothing but the folder tree left there. Since reading your reply, I deleted even that.

† mulch -- "Mulching is a process of inbred fertilization which employs certain decomposed organic materials-- including, but not limited to animal sediment-- to blanket an area in which vegetation is desired. The procedure enriches the soil for stimulated plant development while, at the same time, preventing erosion and decreasing the evaporation of moisture from the ground."

*precensored so Richard Haseltine doesn't have to

Richard Haseltine · February 9

F:/users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library does seem to match up. Can you see the content in the Content Library under Daz Studio Formats>My DAZ 3D Library? You should, by the look of it, have two such entries.

Ryuu@AMcCF · February 9

Richard Haseltine said:

F:/users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library does seem to match up. Can you see the content in the Content Library under Daz Studio Formats>My DAZ 3D Library? You should, by the look of it, have two such entries.

Yes, I think I'm seeing what you're saying I should.

Under the DAZ Studio Formats, I have the

"DAZ Connect" database {unlike the folders below, this is not linked to any 1 folder location. There are a handful of items populating it;}

3 subfolders here: Light Presets {total of 19 items}; People {has several of the Premeir characters recently downloaded}; and Props {a few items and several shaders}

"My DAZ 3D Library" which is linked to F:/users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library {has the lion's share of items populating it, which is as it should be}
"My Library" which is linked to F:/users/Ryuu-Personal/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Library {populated with several of my recent activities using DAZ}
"My DAZ Connect Library" which is linked to F:/users/Ryuu-Personal/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My DAZ 3D Library {currently empty of any DAZ material--I think it odd to see the name change, though}.

For the Poser Formats:

"My DAZ 3D Library" which is linked to F:/users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library {has tons of Poser items populating it, again which is as it should be.)
"My Library" which is linked to F:/users/Ryuu-Personal/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Library {again, is empty of any Poser items}

Still, nothing to account for the 116 uniinstalledmissing items that DIM says was loaded but where D|S says are still awaiting to be downloaded. What items that do exist in those locations other than the "My DAZ 3D Library" in the Public/Documents, none of them match up to any of the 116 listed in the Install tab.

Richard Haseltine · February 10

So there is no trace of those products in DS, even under Daz Studio Formats/Poser Formats? But DIM says they are installed?

Ryuu@AMcCF · February 10

Richard Haseltine said:

So there is no trace of those products in DS, even under Daz Studio Formats/Poser Formats? But DIM says they are installed?

That's correct. The only places in D|S where they're showing up (all grayed out) are in the "Available" subtab of the "Install" tab, the "Available" subtab in "Smart Content", and at the bottom of their respective initial letter's alphabetical listings in the "Products" database tree of the "Content Librarry" tab--that last bit, their labels are saying "Install {...Product Name Here...}".

You mentioned in your first reply that something may have glitched during their DIM installs. Hopefully, this is something that can be fixed if I knew how to properly uninstall and try again, maybe?

Richard Haseltine · February 10

Right-click on one of those products in the Installed tab in DIM and select teh Show Installed Files command - where does DIM think it put the files? If you click the path are the files there?

Ryuu@AMcCF · February 10

For "A3 and H3 Shapes for Genesis":

( F:/Users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library )

for Abominable:

( F:/Users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library )

The files seem to be all there.

Richard Haseltine · February 10

Well, those two don't have any user-facing files - they add new sliders to the base figure - so there is nothing to appear in any content pane.

Ryuu@AMcCF · February 10

Sorry about that. Looking through the rest, a lot of them seem to be similar morphs or something else that probably wouldn't have their own icon on display.

Although, I did find one of the 116 that is from DNA's Traveler. I have several Grasslands Foliage Volumes from him/her sitting in the Smart Content tab, so Volume #7 should also be there, but it's not. Yet, all the files are where DIM says they're supposed to be.

( F:/Users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library )

Richard Haseltine · February 10

And they aren't in Content Library>Poser Formats>My Daz 3D Library>Props>DNA_GrasslandFoliage?

Ryuu@AMcCF · February 10

Richard Haseltine said:

And they aren't in Content Library>Poser Formats>My Daz 3D Library>Props>DNA_GrasslandFoliage?

Okay, those are showing up there in the Poser route, and they're clickable to put into the scene. Is that where those are supposed to be??

If so, then I'm rather confused. That would seem to indicate the others ARE in there, somewhere--just really, really, well hidden!

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