new laptop so I decided to use the Daz install manager..Thank You DAZ...
foleypro
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600+ products to install...used the filter and still close to 600 products...And I am drinking a beer and watching the progress bar go crasy and I dont have to copy and Paste or anything like that..its all auto...gotta love it...Tho 70+ gigs so far and I am only on the m's...:P
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I know, it's kind of fun to 'light the blue touch paper' and retire with a beverage of your choice whilst reminiscing about just how many ^&*^%%$%^& clicks it'd take ... ;)
Yea, I enjoy DIM as well. I wiped everything and started fresh with 4.6 and set a few new content directories. I love being able to add/remove things at will without hunting through the runtime using the readmes for the installed files.
I, too, am a big fan of DIM. I don't understand so many people's frustration with it and refusal to "be converted". I think, if you set up your destination directories before hand, the entire process is easy.
Greetings,
So I'm a die-hard fan of DIM, from essentially the day it was released. I did a full re-install of a decent sized runtime (around 150GB) and I broke all the rules, doing it INTO the same directory as all my existing installer-installed content was. It worked for me, and I'm stoked by that, but I don't recommend it in general.
So take this as devils advocating, somewhat...
DIM could _really_ use som hardening. Specifically in the area of aborted and resumed downloads. It may be the server, but most modern web servers have the ability to resume from a point in the file being downloaded, so you can start your 100MB download, and if it fails after 65MB, it won't retry them again, it'll start from around 64MB and resume.
This isn't new technology; there used to be programs that did this as their primary function back as far as 1997. (Or as I'm going to start saying, 'We was doin that on them there Internets back LAST CENTURY!')
Beyond that, I feel like I've run into a few cases where it installs brushes in the Runtime, when I've tried to specify they're supposed to go elsewhere, but that might be a categorization problem.
But I think that the low-bandwidth folks would really just kill for resume-ability...
-- Morgan
I, too, am a big fan of DIM. Luckily for me, I was late to the 3d modeling party, having just started this year, so my content library has been pretty much filled in by DAZ and the DIM. I've never had an issue with it, and have never had a problem finding (eventually) what I've downloaded. I am a techie though, so perhaps my experience with computers and knowledge of how software works has helped me better utilize this easy to use and convenient tool.
I also like when product updates are released I get them automatically. As my content library grows I don't have to waste countless hours manually checking for product updates. Now I can waste countless hours scouring these forums for helpful tips and tricks ... and the next shiny that I want to add to my runtime in the store :)
DIM has been my Friend from day one. 100% DIM installed DS4.6 content folder, and not one Hic Up yet. I also keep my DS3A Updated and Now my Poser9 all from DIM. I love this bugger.
You better believe it! I do my downloads off-site (Starbucks) and every now and the their wifi antenna reboots. And there are times when the throughput drops to 10 KB/sec (almost as bad as my home dial-up!) So to have a 256 MB package get bombed off at 250 MB and know that I'm in for another 45 minutes to 2 hours to try it again . . .
It's great to see such positive responses to DIM. I too am a huge fan of DIM.
I haven't had any experience with stopped downloads myself, but If what you state is true then being able to resume downloads would be a great feature. I can't promise anything, but I will bring it up to the software team.
Take a look at the Change Log, at the top of the list for build 1.0.1.78. The build with resume functionality is currently with our testing team (~2013/7/11), and feedback from the team thus far has been positive.
-Rob
Greetings,
Nice! I don't run into incomplete downloads often either (I get a couple every few weeks, it seems, always in clumps), but it's something I've heard folks complain about.Excellent that it's being worked on!
-- Morgan