How to Install Old Products

kmw

Just found an old hard drive with all my models going back to Victoria 1 and the old Poser formats. The ones that came with their own installers. 

Memories, eh?

Problem is I can't figure out how to install them. I've tried several times to install SleighDashingSnow.exe ("Dashing Through the Snow"). I've used "My Daz 3D Library" and other existing folders in the current Daz hierarchy and got nowhere.

Does the old stuff even work in the latest Studio? (That product's not even in the store.) If not, I can deal with that. But if there's a way I still use the models I spent so much time collecting back in the day, that'd be even greater.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanx in advance.

kmw

crosswind

Yes, mostly they work. Assets in Poser format are installed in: your Daz Library\Runtime... no matter they're EXE installer or IM packages. Search them under Poser Format in DS.

kmw

It took a little doing but I'm good. Thank you, crosswind!

frank0314

If you use DIM you "may" be able to download some of the products in current format to install properly. I don't know if V1 stuff was ever converted for use in DIM or not but you "may" be able to find "some" stuff. I'm betting most of it isn't on the site anymore but you can look and see in your product library if there's an updated file or in DIM which would be the easiest. I not sure if the old installers they use to use will work or not. All of mine are barried away on a dinasour HD sitting on a shelf, so wouldn't even be able to test. If you happen to have zip files then you can move the files by hand to where they need to be in the runtime structure.

Fishtales

Is the old Hard Drive set up as as a My Library? If it is then just right click and drag it onto your existing My Library and select Copy. If both are set up the same then any files not on the new library will be copied over in the proper places. You will then only have to look through your My Library for items that are outside the normal hierarchy and open them to see what is different. You can then keep the old hard drive as a backup in case it is needed again.

MelanieL

frank0314 said:

If you use DIM you "may" be able to download some of the products in current format to install properly. I don't know if V1 stuff was ever converted for use in DIM or not but you "may" be able to find "some" stuff. I'm betting most of it isn't on the site anymore but you can look and see in your product library if there's an updated file or in DIM which would be the easiest. I not sure if the old installers they use to use will work or not. All of mine are barried away on a dinasour HD sitting on a shelf, so wouldn't even be able to test. If you happen to have zip files then you can move the files by hand to where they need to be in the runtime structure.

Yes they were converted for DIM - for example I have 'Millennium Woman' Victoria 1 here: https://www.daz3d.com/downloader/customer/files#prod_85

 

Richard Haseltine

Fishtales said:

Is the old Hard Drive set up as as a My Library? If it is then just right click and drag it onto your existing My Library and select Copy. If both are set up the same then any files not on the new library will be copied over in the proper places. You will then only have to look through your My Library for items that are outside the normal hierarchy and open them to see what is different. You can then keep the old hard drive as a backup in case it is needed again.

It doesn't have to be named My Library, the default names of the content directories don't have any functional significance. The old content directory could be merged with the new, or simply set as a new content directory.