Reinstalling DAZ Studio because of corruption

hjake

Yesterday, in this thread ( https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/584691/released-environment-set-splitter-commercial#latest ) I mentioned the product was crashing when I tried to excute it. Luckily, I have a secondary computer which I use for rendering without slowing my workflow on my main computer. The product ran flawlessy and so I determined the problem is related to my DAZ Studio installation.

I tried uniinstalling a plug-in that was mentioned in the on-screen crash report, but not related to the product at issue. Next, I re-imported the content library metadata. After that I uninstalled DAZ Studio with DIM and removed the download package, which tripped a DIM script infroming me to install DAZ Studio. I allowed the script to run.

Once DAZ Studio was reinstalled I ran the product again and everything crashed just like before.

So now with the background explained, my question is how do I properly uninstall and reinstall DAZ Studio so there is a fresh (uncorrupted) copy.

Do I need to unistall all of my 16,424 packages installed with DIM?

or instead do I need to unistall all the DAZ Studio plugins? If so, what do I filter just uninstall all the plugins?

 

I could attach the crash report file, but it is just 4259 lines of messages like this:

2025-02-26T17:24:15Z Error in metadata for product 'D-Force Crop Jacket for Genesis 8 Females' (104602), metadata for file '/people/genesis 8 female/clothing/a97/crop jacket/materials/jacket08.duf' has no corresponding file

I have not used or loaded that product in many months.

The XML file in the error reporting zip file just lists modules installed.

I have attached a screenshot of my installed plugins

 

felis

Are you using the HEAT plugin?

It has caused a lot of crashes.

hjake

felis said:

Are you using the HEAT plugin?

It has caused a lot of crashes.

I looked for HEAT in my DIM but could not find anything. I unchecked the plugin in DS, and restarted DS. Run the environment spliteer script and DS crashed.

felis

I am not certain unticking it is sufficient.

I would try to uninstall it.

hjake

felis said:

I am not certain unticking it is sufficient.

I would try to uninstall it.

Thank you for the suggestion.

Interesting. I did not install HEAT and it is not in DIM, but there was a DLL in the plugin folder. I renamed its extension .dll.old so it would not load. I did the same for Typi3D since it was the .dll mentioned in the crash report dialog. So now the split envioment script runs but only processes the first item.

I think the only way I am going to fix this is uninstall and clean install, so my original questions stand.

I am open to any suggestions. Preferably without having to re-install all my DIM packages.

felis

With the excemption of plugins, I cannot see that your content needs reinstalling. Just point Daz Studio to your current libraries.

The reason I excempt plugins, is that some of them gets installed in "weird" places.

You will probably have to reimport metadata.

hjake

felis said:

With the excemption of plugins, I cannot see that your content needs reinstalling. Just point Daz Studio to your current libraries.

The reason I excempt plugins, is that some of them gets installed in "weird" places.

You will probably have to reimport metadata.

Well I finally scrubbed DAZ Studio from all the folders and managed to uninstall anything that ressembled a plugin in DIM. Reinstalled DS then the default items and ran environment splitter and it now works properly.

 

 

ah-ha I wrote too soon. I installed the other "plugins" and crashed again! I will have to look into this tomorrow.