Regarding the .zip files
JOdel
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Well, okay, I've started downloading the .zip files of my previous purchases. I'm starting with the oldest. A few haven't apparently been converted to .zip files yet, since there are still .exes and what look suspiciously like .zips with installers in them.
However. There are a number of products which I have old the VISE installers for both dpc and ds files, and the new .zips have only one folder and it's labeled Ps, and has only a Poser Runtime in it. No DS files and no 2nd installer. Since quite a few others have both a DS and a Ps .zip folder, I'm wondering what the situation is. Are Studio files no longer provided for these products?
Also, there are a couple of things with bad .zips that won't decompress, but I'll make a list of those and open a support ticket once I have a decent number of them to report.
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Can you give an example of an item that you think should have DS as well as Poser files?
A while ago, a lot of these installers were changed, and they install BOTH the Poser PZ2 file AND the DAZ Studio MAT file in the Runtime folder. As long as they have exactly the same name, DS sees them, and will load the DS material when the icon is double clicked. Perhaps that is the case, look in Runtime > Libraries > Pose to see if the DS files are there as well.
I think the readme for the older installers said something like 'DAZ Studio users no longer have to load a separate file .....'
If it a product that predates DS it will not have DS files. An example is the MilDragon LE. If you open the zip, you find a readme and runtime folder.
If the old installers had DS material presets, they should be in the zips. If the name of the zip has PS in it there probably should be a DS or StudioCF file to go with it -- it may be that the PS version is misnamed and does include the DS mats, or the DS mats ay be mistagged or missing. If you name some of them I can check, or you can file a support ticket to get them fixed.
Okay, the "Studio CF" file is one that got past me, I saw "CF" and was assuming it to be a DSON CF file. Evidently it's something different.
That will take care of most of them. But I do seem to recall a couple that only had one file. It will take me a while to find them, if so.
ETA:Yeah, that was pretty much it. Quite a few probably predate Studio since they had only the Poser files, but I knew that they were all old.
I'm averaging about one bad file per page though. Things that either don't decompress, or when decompressed are incomplete.
What are you using to decompress them?
With Safari they are supposed to decompress automatically from a system-level utility. That simply doesn't work. And the .zip doesn't decompress manually when it's run through StuffIt Expander. I get the alert box.
Sometimes that's a browser issue though, and things will decompress if downloaded from a different one. So I tried Firefox. That downloads the .zip but doesn't decompress it. I threw those into StuffItExpander which still threw out the alert message and gives me an incomplete folder. There are some items in it, but also empty subfolders which ought not to be empty.
I've got about 5 dud .zips in something like five pages of listings so far.
On the zips that won't decompress. I am guessing it is because there is a 0 byte file in that. Yes please open a ticket so those can be found.
Yeah. I'll do that once I get a dozen of them or so.
In the meantime I'm finding a number of clothing items that did have DS files that no longer do. All of these are older things, since they were purchased around 2009, but there were definitely ds VICE or bitrock installers then, but only Poser runtimes now. I haven't been making a list, but they're things like the V4 Wildwoods Traveler set and the morphing fantasy collar, or V4 Raiver. Just about all of the non-clothing items so far seem to have matched up pretty well once I was told that I've yet another variety of CF file to watch for.
V4 Fantasy Collar and Raiver have DS mats in the Poser Pose library. I don't see any for Wildwoods Traveler -- I lost all my old installers, but I don't see them in my pre-DIM runtimes.
Well I'm dumping the old installers as I download the .zip files. I'd decompressed them all and had the files on hand, but figured that I'd get any updates that might have wandered in by downloading the new packages. Yeah, if all the DS files were were files that could sit in the Pose folder and whatever program you're using it with just uses the one written for it, I can't see any point to a 2nd installer.
I suspect that back when I first bought those products *all* installers were smaller sized groups of files, because some things that had more than one dpc installer now have just the one .zip file.