Do the old installers not work anymore?
Pleblu
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I found an old backup DVD of my daz stuff and decided to try installing a few. None of it shows up in the products tab or the content library tab. I even do a search for the items to no avail.
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They should still work (on Windows at least) -- are you sure you installed them to one of the content folders you're currently using?
The old installer often have default install locations that are very different form the default install location of DIM. Some of them defaulted to installing to the Program Files folder which you do not want to do with any Windows' OS from Vista and later. But I wouldn't recommend using the old installer anyways as the products may have had updates, use the new DIM zips.
Yes, if you just went click-click-click through the installer options (as I'm sure most of us did back in the day) it's very easy to install the files in one of the old content locations that aren't used any more.
Old installers that I've used recently have all worked. When I run them, I ALWAYS change the default location and paste in the path I want to install it to. I can't remember for certain, but recall issues with the default changing around somewhat at random from one installer to the next (like there's a list of recently used paths or something else weird), plus I believe there was an issue pasting a path into the first window, it can get cut off, so go to the second window before pasting.
You can also make up a new temporary location to test the installer with to verify it is working, then delete that later, provided it is normal content and not one of the rare installers that also installed into the program directory.
In windows 7 you will get a message that sounds like there was a problem of some kind ("may not have installed correctly" or something like that, but it appears harmless and everything actually does install correctly despite the message.)
Yes, the installers saved a list of where you'd installed to previously, so that extra location always came up as one of the path options. Problem was, there were several versions of the installer over the years, and not all of them saved (or offered) this extra path in the same way — so if you were running a bunch of installers, some old, some new, there was no guarantee you'd always get the same install path options. It got complicated.
As for the installation error, I think that was a support file always included in the installers that no-one running D|S or reasonably modern versions of Poser actually used, so it was harmless and could be ignored.
Yeah, I defaulted back into click click mode and now I'm facepalming lol I've been out of the 3d world for awhile
Straight into the completely wrong folder — been there, done that, can't find the t-shirt. :ahhh:
Yes. This occurs because Windows expects a file with an "exe" extension that includes an installation utility (i.e. Bitrock) to be an actual installer - i.e. an application or program installer that actually makes changes to system files. The content "installers" don't actually install anything in the Windows meaning of the term, but are simply self-extracting archives that decompress the enclosed files and copy them to your hard drive. When Windows detects the operation has completed without any expected changes to system files, it throws the error message, thinking that something has gone wrong. As stated, simply ignore the error message.