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Can you check McAfee's firewall logs to see if it's blocking PostgreSQL and DAZ Studio from communicating?
So I temporarily disabled my security programs and tried everything you suggested again. Still not happening :(
Can you check McAfee's firewall logs to see if it's blocking PostgreSQL and DAZ Studio from communicating?
Yeah, once I figure out how.
Got it... So what I did find out is that the IP address 166.78.224.3 is being blocked. That IP address belongs to "United States Chicago Daz 3d"
Not sure yet how to see what progams are being blocked.
...that's what I have and every time I fire up 4.8, I get no blue highlighting at all in my Product library and none of the category folders at the bottom of the Library tree work.
What do you mean by "none of the category folders work" -- is the section "Categories" there at all? If it is, is there anything in it, even empty folders?
Are you starting "DAZ Content Management Service" ? That's the Valentina CMS, not PostgreSQL.
They are included in the Default Lights and shaders product. They are found in Smart Content, under shaders, sub folder Iray, if your item selected has a product ID, they are found in presets on the surface tab under shaders, sub folder Iray, and in the Content Directory Tab under Shader Presets, sub folder Iray.
And those system specs were in answer to numerous questions we got about getting a new machine for DAZ Studio.
Thanks for the response and info... ;-) However..I checked every single folder in every directory in the smart content tab and found absolutely nothing. And this is after I re-initialized the meta data... :question:
Yeah, once I figure out how.
Got it... So what I did find out is that the IP address 166.78.224.3 is being blocked. That IP address belongs to "United States Chicago Daz 3d"
Not sure yet how to see what progams are being blocked.
DS and CMS would be communicating by an internal port, not over the internet. The default port is 17237, I think.
Was it working fine for you before the latest update?
What do you mean by "none of the category folders work" -- is the section "Categories" there at all? If it is, is there anything in it, even empty folders?
Are you starting "DAZ Content Management Service" ? That's the Valentina CMS, not PostgreSQL.
...they are there but nothing shows up in them until I close Daz 4.8 restart the CMS in Task Manager, and then open Daz 4.8 afterwards.
Was it working fine for you before the latest update?
...hasn't been working well since ver 4.7.
...they are there but nothing shows up in them until I close Daz 4.8 restart the CMS in Task Manager, and then open Daz 4.8 afterwards.
Are you saying Categories is there but there's nothing in it, or that there are subfolders under Categories but the subfolders are empty? If you were using PostgreSQL then Categories wouldn't be there at all. In the log, does it say "Connected to PostgreSQL" or "Connected to CMS"?
You need to reimport your library... I think you do the Reset first and then Reimport last iirc... there is a tutorial around here about that....
4.8 has been working great for me until the latest minor update, 4.8.0.55. Now I have to browse around my content library, folder by folder, until I find what I'm looking for. That will get real old real quick.
RAM, that was the first thing I tried, and even now still try.
Oh well. Falling asleep at the wheel. Good night, y'all.
RAM, that was the first thing I tried, and even now still try.
So sorry that's not working for you. I'm sure someone will have an answer for you. :-(
So I uninstalled the public-build beta postgre CMS and beta DAZ 4.8 and now (so far) everything seems fine.
(I only share this in case others have the same problem and this solution might work for them.)
Great to hear! :-)
? support, sigh ... it's okay it's been fixed.
I manually dug through folders no eye should see and deleted things.
Found the deinstaller that the reference on the Control Panel obviously didn't and theoretically it worked.
I reinstalled ONLY 4.8 NOT betas.
I reinstalled the P thing.
Several times for both.
Curious how they don't recognize their own stuff and ask about repair or replace but they just de-install and install.
Which is kool, except that means the deinstaller for the P thing doesn't really work because the reinstall had to deinstall a deinstalled whatever it is.
There is a problem with the plugin installer as well although the technical details we the people may never know about.
Solution is to simply install it to a "holding" folder and then manually slide the content to the appropriate folders ... which are expected to be found in very specific spots which is only so IF only has let the installer install to where it wants to as opposed to what is normally a more practical place.
It seems to me that to err is human, and to really foul things up requires the DIM and CMS! Time after time I read about what havoc they like to cause. I've never used them and have had trouble free installs every time because I've done it all manually. Ok, I can't get Betas or product updates that way, but, I'd rather have something I can rely on anyway.
CHEERS!
Well, in all fairness to the DIM and CMS, they've been wonderful for me up until this last update, then things when haywire. But the problem is resolved now. To be honest, one reason I prefer shopping at DAZ instead of other places is because of DIM. So they had a bad update. I'm sure they'll fix it.
I'll admit to being massively confused on the problems people seem to have had; as far as I know, I installed the same files with DIM and they all went where I expected them to. "<32-bit-path>\DAZ 3D\Studio4" for the release and "<32-bit-path>\DAZ 3D\Studio4 Public Build" for the betas (32-bit) and "<64-bit-path>\DAZ 3D\Studio4" and "<64-bit-path>\DAZ 3D\Studio4 Public Build" for the 64-bit versions, where <32-bit-path> and <64-bit-path> are my defined 32 and 64 bit installation directories.
I never do "download and install" because I do my downloads at a wifi hotspot and then copy the files to my main system (but I wouldn't do download and install even if the main system had high-speed internet -- just not that type of guy). I don't know if that might have caused issues or not.
Horses for courses I suppose. I was a Poser user for many years and so I got used to zips. With manual installs and the content libraries I know everything is exactly where I put it because I put it there.
CHEERS!
...since I now have a stable connection, the DIM works perfectly for me. The one nice thing about it, I don't have to manually keep track of updates to products or risk missing them.
Possibly what might be causing the issues I am having with the CMS is that about 60% of my library and runtime was manually installed (using the .exe installers from my backups) before I had a clean connection. Some of the older files had no metadata (particularly freebies and content from other stores) so they won't show up with the blue highlight. I understand that. Not that big on database management so never manually fixed the issues with the older Daz content. The easiest way I can think of is to do a full uninstall and reinstall of everything I purchased from the Daz store using the DIM (save for products/Daz freebies that have been discontinued).
Still would be a monumental job.
That's partly why I wouldn't use it. I have a ton of content that was installed using bitrock and older installers. When I moved from computer to computer I just copied over the libraries and reinstalled the main figures and morphs. I have no idea which machine my uninstallers for them would be on now. I'm comfortable with things as I have them, I've had barely any issues and wouldn't want to create any now.
CHEERS!
I've been using categories since they were introduced in DS2, way before CMS and DIM. It was buggy at the start, so I've long been in the habit of backing up regularly. I had to restore from backups a few times with Valentina; since they added Export User Data in DS4.5 that's been much easier to do. Haven't had any problems with PostgreSQL CMS.
What is the difference in the two "fit to mode" options? This is new, right?
I have a question .. I have 2 cards installed one for rendering in DS the other for other programs but may problem here is that when I start DS both card are used at max speed no matter the setting so it interrupt with my other programs that slow down and still can't do anything even if only one card is selected for rendering as the the other card run on full power doing nothing . The scene is loaded on the other card even if I don't use it for rendering .
It is a big waste of energy and no... my SLI is off
is there any way to prevent it ? or maybe some settings I missing ?
The only possible thing I have seen would be the check boxes under Render Settings, Advanced tab (with the Iray engine selected) which allow you to pick which devices (CPU and/or GPU) for each type of render, photoreal or interactive.
And on the subject I'd like there to be a 'choke' temperature settings (much liek with Octane for DS) whereby you can specify a max temp to allow the card to get to before it's load is lessened until it cools.
The only possible thing I have seen would be the check boxes under Render Settings, Advanced tab (with the Iray engine selected) which allow you to pick which devices (CPU and/or GPU) for each type of render, photoreal or interactive.
And on the subject I'd like there to be a 'choke' temperature settings (much like with Octane for DS) whereby you can specify a max temp to allow the card to get to before it's load is lessened until it cools."O" is there a selection in the driver for the cards? Possibly disabling CUDA on the card driving the monitors. A thought, if your other stuff doesn't need CUDA on the "Display Card(s)".
For the sake of my thought, a def.
Display Cards, the cards running monitor output.
Crunch Cards, the Cards doing the crunching.