What just happened to my scene?

ericjcant

I was testing out some various export options and then closed DAZ. When I next open up DAZ my scene is showing the Michael 6 model looking like the basic male actor model, but in the scene tab he's still listed as Michael 6?

Next I go into my install manager and it suddenly starts downloading updates (I guess?) that have the same name as things I've already downloaded, and it shows that I haven't installed DAZ studio at all?

It looks as if DAZ just dumped my custom information in this scene. I had a shader I had saved and now it doesn't recognize it when I try to apply it. Also, when I select the model and try to save a shader, it gives me an error that says I must select one object with geometry and one surface?

So all I really want back is my scene with the poses and body morphs I had in place. And I can't have this happen again. What happened?

fixmypcmike

First thing I'd do is check for hard drive problems.

ericjcant

Nope, no hard drive errors when scanned, but this doesn't seem like that kind of problem. None of my other scenes have problems that use the same model.

When all this happened, I noticed that when I had opened up the Install Manager to maybe try and re-install Michael 6, suddenly the shortcut Icon to DAZ wasn't on my desktop and the download manager immediately started downloading Genesis Male Essentials, Genesis Female Essentials, Default Lights and Shaders, and Genesis 3 Female Starter Essentials, all on it's own without me activating anything. This seems to be the biggest clue. So at that point it showed that DAZ 4.8 wasn't installed, so I went ahead and installed it, all while DAZ was open and running...

To me it looks like DAZ did some sort of update while my scene was open and it screwed it up. It's the only thing that makes sense unless there is some serious problem with the export coding in the program.

JimmyC_2009

When all this happened, I noticed that when I had opened up the Install Manager to maybe try and re-install Michael 6, suddenly the shortcut Icon to DAZ wasn’t on my desktop and the download manager immediately started downloading Genesis Male Essentials, Genesis Female Essentials, Default Lights and Shaders, and Genesis 3 Female Starter Essentials, all on it’s own without me activating anything

I have never seen DIM start to download and install anything, without me having to click the 'Start Queue' button, it has just never happened to me, and I have never heard of it happening before. There is also a check box in the Ready to Download tab, which says 'Install After Download' if you don't have that ticked, all DIM does is download the files, but does not install them.

So at that point it showed that DAZ 4.8 wasn’t installed, so I went ahead and installed it, all while DAZ was open and running…

That you should NEVER do, it usually causes major problems with the interface.

Can you open DAZ Studio now? If not, go to the Installed tab in DIM, select the version of DS that you just installed, tick the box next to it, and press the 'Start Queue' button, then re-install it again, but make sure that DAZ Studio is NOT running.

ericjcant

DIM didn't install the files, it just started downloading them automatically, as if I didn't have those files and had told it to do so. I've never seen that either. The only file I didn't have previously installed on my computer was the Female Genesis 3 Essentials, which made me suspicious that it was the culprit to whatever was going on?

Everything looks and runs fine. That's not the problem. It almost seems like I got caught in some behind the scenes updates, perhaps for Genesis 3, and while I was in the middle of exporting information it conflicted with some of the specific information within my scene? That's the only answer I can think of.