Transferred everything to new PC but Install Manager shows nothing installed

DarthD

Everything appears to be in Daz Studio but Install Manager shows nothing. Is there a way to make it search for installed content?

Richard Haseltine

Did you install with the Install Manager? It won't see items it didn't install.

DarthD

Everything was installed with Install Manager originally. I copied it to move to the new computer.

Richard Haseltine

Ah, then did you copy the \DAZ 3D\Install Manager\Manifests folder from your public documents folder on the old system? (I think that's the right path - not certain about the Install Manager folder.) That is where DIM keeps track of what it has installed. Of course that will work only if the content directories are in the same place on your new system.

DarthD

I have a solid state boot drive now so I moved all the data to another larger drive. I moved all document folders to that drive also but I guess Install manager needs the manifest on the C drive. It created a new Manifest there so I copied the old one in that place. its working now. Thank you

Richard Haseltine

You can override the location of the manifests folder - but it entails editing the .ini file. Go to

C:\Users\YOU\AppData\Roaming\DAZ 3D\InstallManager\UserAccounts

and open Account.ini, then add the path you want (with / as the folder separator) to

OverrideManifestDir=

You can use the next line to set the location for downloaded thumbnails, if you use them.

jestmart

There is an override for thumbnails too that you may want to change as they probably eat up more storage than the manifests.

DarthD

Thank I may try this later on. I see the override for thumbnails also.

DownloadPath=C:/Users/Public/Documents/DAZ 3D/InstallManager/Downloads
CurInstallPath=E:/Users/Public/Documents/My DAZ 3D Library
Software64Path=C:/Program Files
Software32Path=C:/Program Files (x86)
AutoInstall=true
AutoDelete=false
ShowTips=true
ShowProductInfo=true
MarkInstalledContentAsNew=true
OverrideManifestDir=
OverrideThumbnailDir=
CurrentTabIndex=0

DarthD

Rendering this scene on my old computer took 52 minutes 2 seconds. My new computer did it in 11 minutes 46 seconds. I'm very happy with those results.

barbult

Richard Haseltine said:

You can override the location of the manifests folder - but it entails editing the .ini file. Go to

C:\Users\YOU\AppData\Roaming\DAZ 3D\InstallManager\UserAccounts

and open Account.ini, then add the path you want (with / as the folder separator) to

OverrideManifestDir=

You can use the next line to set the location for downloaded thumbnails, if you use them.

This was very helpful. I moved both the manifests and thumbnails.