install manager throws away files on uninstall

alan bard newcomer

if I find a file I put in the wrong place or just want to move somewhere else... half the time when I it the  uninstall the manager throws the files away and they end up in the download list instead of the install list.
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tonight I decided to make an iray folder ... so I un-installed about 12 iray shaders lights etc... and wham half of them are now back in the download list.
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no auto installs, no delete after install set.
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is this special?

Richard Haseltine

Are you sure Delete after install wasn't set when you originally installed? That woudl be when the zip was deleted.

alan bard newcomer

if it was, it came in as the default when the new manager was installed... and maybe I didn't catch it right away...
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my connection is too slow to throw away anything I've downloaded.

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I did move to a new computer and had to copy the install stuff so it knew what was in and may have lost some data.
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I have the data on an external disk, but when I first started the new machine daz wanted to reinstall all 5000 items so I found where the info was stored and copied them over to the next download manager location. 
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but the package dates of the item that I had to redown load last night spanned july and august and september.
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hopefully I won't have to uninstall anything more... 

but the new manager was only install about two weeks ago...  so it should be new items from a couple days even if it took me a couple days to notice it was set to delete after installation.
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may just set up a new drive on a computer with a fresh install of daz and just let it download everything all over again to make sure I have a complete set. 

alan bard newcomer

there are 10,406 items in the install folder
which should account for 5,203 items

but 5547 installed and 155 to install
which is 11404 or 5702 items
so I could be missing 500 two part items... 
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but I just realized if the downloader manager wasn't in existence I might have cut way back on purchases because the overhead time was would have been too much...