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Path question: Studio or "Studio4", My Library or "...Content"

Roman_K2Roman_K2 Posts: 1,239
edited December 1969 in New Users

Ohhh, the tedium! After many path problems in Windows Vista, most likely brought on by my initially wanting a Strange Custom Path, before reading hereabouts that You Really Shouldn't Do That, I've started over again and I've installed DAZ Studio 4.5 64-bit on a mostly-fresh installation of Windows 7, 64-bit.

Right off the bat, DAZ things -- like from Maclean -- won't install, "destination not writeable" and so on.

It could be that I saw the string "Studio4" (note the "4") flash on the screen during the installation of DS, and I wrote that into my desired destination path, eg.something like C:\Users\John Henry\My Documents\Studio4\My Library

I noticed in the new and improved on-line docs that the "4" after the word "Studio" is not present. Maybe I was dreaming??? Indeed, after I aborted my install of one of the Maclean things, there was nothing in my "Studio4" folder.

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Comments

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    It doesn't matter what the content folder is called as long as Daz Studio is mapped to that directory. You can name your folders anyay you like.

    As in this case the Propgram Gets installed to Studio 4 and the content at defualt is called Studio. I have over 30 content folders on my USB Hard Drive and I had to manually mapped each directory, Poser Formats and Daz Studio Formats alike.
    This shows how to make sure your directories mapped http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/11176/#160953

  • Roman_K2Roman_K2 Posts: 1,239
    edited December 1969

    Thanks for the quick feedback. I think I get the basic thrust - there are mods that a user can do after an installation, to ensure that the directory where their content resides, is in fact "mapped" into DAZ Studio 4.

    It still doesn't explain my (apparently) unrecoverable error that I got with my VERY FIRST THING, that I tried to install, following a FRESH installation of literally EVERYTHING?

    Actually I was jinxed from the get-go maybe, with this experiment. I put the Win7 DVD in the drive twice -- once just to have a look -- and the second time the prompt to format drive C did not come back up; instead Win7 chose to install itself and it kept a bunch of old Vista stuff in a folder called WINDOWS.OLD, go figure.

    Thanks again, Roman

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    My pleasure.

    Yeah best to always reformat the drive from DOS

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