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Installer Suggestion

The Vertex DoctorThe Vertex Doctor Posts: 198
edited December 1969 in Daz Studio Discussion

Give us an option within the program to mark items as already downloaded so it does not show up in Ready to Download, Ready to Install, and Installed.

The reason I ask for this is I only use the program to download. I manually install my content as I have a runtime sorted to my own preferences and like to move my purchases to an sorted external drive. The way it is now, if I remove anything from the install manager folder it assumes I have not downloaded the item which makes it difficult for me to find my recent purchase(s) to download in a list of several hundred items.

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  • DZ_jaredDZ_jared Posts: 1,316
    edited December 1969

    I'm more than happy to bring up your suggestion. I can't guarantee anything will come from it. In the mean time depending on the size of your hard disk you may find it easier to leave the .zip and config files in the DIM downloads folder and then copy them over to where ever you want. Alternatively you can just change the download location for DIM to save the .zip files to wherever you want.

  • The Vertex DoctorThe Vertex Doctor Posts: 198
    edited December 1969

    DAZ_jared said:
    I'm more than happy to bring up your suggestion. I can't guarantee anything will come from it. In the mean time depending on the size of your hard disk you may find it easier to leave the .zip and config files in the DIM downloads folder and then copy them over to where ever you want. Alternatively you can just change the download location for DIM to save the .zip files to wherever you want.

    That's just it, I don't like to have multiple copies. Changing the download location doesn't help much either. I have an external drive with the zip files ( and other non DAZ stuff from rendo, etc ) categorized exactly like the store whereas the install manager likes everything that has been downloaded to be in the same folder.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,218
    edited August 2013

    If you point DIM to an empty folder, install to that, and then delete the contents DIM will still think the files are installed (it goes purely by the manifest), and it will still notify you of updates.

    Edit: I don't think that was what you were asking - sorry. You can right-click on an item in the ready to download tab and select Hide Downloads>Hide xxx, or seelct multiple items, right click and select Hide Downloads>Hide Selected.

    Post edited by Richard Haseltine on
  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    I posted a work around in the Commons Thread about this.

  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116
    edited August 2013

    Richard Haseltine said:
    If you point DIM to an empty folder, install to that, and then delete the contents DIM will still think the files are installed (it goes purely by the manifest), and it will still notify you of updates.

    Wait, so you can install to a temp folder, move the contents, and DIM won't blow up and it will still assume they're installed? What's the InstallManagerFileReference.ini file in my library for then?

    Post edited by Lissa_xyz on
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,218
    edited December 1969

    Vaskania said:
    Richard Haseltine said:
    If you point DIM to an empty folder, install to that, and then delete the contents DIM will still think the files are installed (it goes purely by the manifest), and it will still notify you of updates.

    Wait, so you can install to a temp folder, move the contents, and DIM won't blow up and it will still assume they're installed? What's the InstallManagerFileReference.ini file in my library for then?

    Yes. The InstallManagerFileReference.ini file lists files that were installed by multiple products, so that removing one of them won't remove the shared file. But of course if you don't leave the files in place anyway that won't be any good.

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