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How do I revert from 4.8 back to 4.7 DAZ

michaelolsonmichaelolson Posts: 117
edited December 1969 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

Hi. I just downloaded Daz 4.8. For some reason it took a few tries. And it didn't leave me with 4.7 which was what I was hoping for. I'm sure it will be a good product but I'm working to complete a multi image project and the files I've made ( many with dynamic clothing ) aren't loading into the scene as they did ( correctly ) with Daz 4.7. Can someone please tell me how to dump 4.8 and bring 4.7 back?
Thank you.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,833
    edited December 1969

    Did you back up the 4.7 installer? If not I don't think you can. How are the sceens failing to load - is content missing, are you getting errors, or are some things incorrectly posed or surfaced?

  • michaelolsonmichaelolson Posts: 117
    edited December 1969

    Hi Richard, I was coming back on to say I figured it out. I found the 4.7 install file sitting in my download folder still so I was able to run it and reinstall it. It works and it has kept the 4.8 version still on my desktop so that's good. But things remain altered. I'm doing multi scenes with a character in a dynamic robe. I have what I call the native file, the one that I build the other poses from. When I load it, normally, the character is standing with the robe surrounding him, but undraped of course. Now the robe is thrown back to the main 2 grid lines when I open the file. Ok, no big deal an easy fix, but I went and checked the other animation sequences I made and the robe is off them as well, and one or two frozen animations seem to now have body parts sticking through the robe.

  • michaelolsonmichaelolson Posts: 117
    edited December 1969

    Sigh, I think I might know the problem. The dynamic clothing control menu is non existent ( in both 4.7 and 4.8 ) and when I go to help and look at about installed plug ins, for 4.7 I get what I attached below. With the 4.8 version the same thing PLUS another one that is dzoptitexclothcontrol also failing to load. Any suggestions?

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  • michaelolsonmichaelolson Posts: 117
    edited December 1969

    Ignore that last part I see it's in both programs. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the dynamic cloth control file but the same thing happens.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,833
    edited December 1969

    Close DS, uninstall the Dynamic Clothing Control plug-in, start DS - do you still have the broken version listed in Help>About Installed Plug-ins?

  • michaelolsonmichaelolson Posts: 117
    edited December 1969

    Hi Richard, yes sorry that's what I meant by file, I uninstalled the plug in using the install manager. I just did it again to be sure and reinstalled and it's the same situation. The uninstall and install seemed to go by very fast. Should I try completely uninstalling 4.8?

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited December 1969

    Note that the Dynamic Control plugin is one of the few that is tied to the version number of DAZ|Studio — when D|S is updated, you must also update the plugin to the matching version. The old plugin will not work with the new D|S, and vice-versa. Unfortunately, the update deletes the old version of the plugin. Do you still have the old plugin installer?

  • michaelolsonmichaelolson Posts: 117
    edited December 1969

    What if there is no new plug in version for the new DAZ? I just uninstalled Daz4.7 and reinstalled and I'm getting the same thing. But I see the uninstall still leaves the content manager, should I be uninstalling that too and if I do will I run into any kinds of problems ( after I reinstall ) loading my files I made? I ask because my computer crashed a year back and when I reinstalled Daz then, it wouldn't reload my past files - it kept listing errors in trying to find things. Here's another screen shot of what it's listing as going on. I guess 4.8 wiped out the dynamic control plug in but left it's version there, so that's why I am wondering if I should get rid of the Daz content managment service along with the Daz installer in the control panel.

    Plug_in_control_problem.jpg
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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,833
    edited December 1969

    Try manually removing the .dll file from the Plugins folder in the DAZ Studio Application folder (with everything closed) then reinstall DS.

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited December 1969

    michaelolson said:
    I ask because my computer crashed a year back and when I reinstalled Daz then, it wouldn't reload my past files - it kept listing errors in trying to find things.

    Would any of these scene files (were they all scene files?) have included Poser content converted into D|S content, or were they all native D|S content? Or did you either before or after the crash (not both) have your content installed to a non-default location? In either of these cases, before the crash D|S would have been creating files in the /data/ folder of your content location. After the crash, those /data/ files would no longer exist, but the scene files would still look for them. This is why it's always vital when backing up your content to always include the /data/ folder; it contains files created when you saved your own scenes, which are not in any installer downloaded from the DAZ store.
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