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question about manually installing content

zoldoszoldos Posts: 46
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My folders are: DAZ 3D-->Studio-->My Daz Connect Library-->Data-->Cloud

I have an RAR I want to extract and it has folders such as: Runtime or Content-->People etc.  Where do I put the extracted files? Thanks!!

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  • IllidanstormIllidanstorm Posts: 655
    edited July 2018

    Press F4 in DAZ3D go to content, Content Directory Manager, DAZ Studio Formats . Thats the folder where you should put your files. If the files are inside a content folder, don't put the content folder there but whats inside (Runtime, People, Presets, etc.)

    After that you have to reimport the metadata if you want to use smart content.

    Post edited by Illidanstorm on
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,805

    The My Daz Connect Library is not set up as a regular content directory, it's for items installed bvia Connect. If you did want to use it as a regular content diectory, it would be the My Daz Connect Library you'd use and you would unzip content to that folder, not to /data/cloud.

  • zoldoszoldos Posts: 46
    Illidanstorm said:

    Press F4 in DAZ3D go to content, Content Directory Manager, DAZ Studio Formats . Thats the folder where you should put your files. If the files are inside a content folder, don't put the content folder there but whats inside (Runtime, People, Presets, etc.)

    After that you have to reimport the metadata if you want to use smart content.

    hehe It was actually F2 but I found it under "Preferences". Thanks, I found it! :D

  • zoldoszoldos Posts: 46
    Richard Haseltine said:

    The My Daz Connect Library is not set up as a regular content directory, it's for items installed bvia Connect. If you did want to use it as a regular content diectory, it would be the My Daz Connect Library you'd use and you would unzip content to that folder, not to /data/cloud.

    Yes, that was it. Thanks!!

  • zoldoszoldos Posts: 46

    Okay so here: "Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Daz Connect Library"?  Will this let me use DIM, or will DAZ3D simply "see" the files?

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232

    Note one gotcha that sometimes confuses people; "the content folder" is not "the folder named Content", it's "the folder containing your content files". The actual folder name is whatever's defined in the Content Directory Manager settings. It's common to see installers from non-DAZ sources that use the folder name "Content" because the default name has changed several times over the years in various D|S updates, and that was one of the early defaults.

  • zoldoszoldos Posts: 46
    SpottedKitty said:

    Note one gotcha that sometimes confuses people; "the content folder" is not "the folder named Content", it's "the folder containing your content files". The actual folder name is whatever's defined in the Content Directory Manager settings. It's common to see installers from non-DAZ sources that use the folder name "Content" because the default name has changed several times over the years in various D|S updates, and that was one of the early defaults.

    Thanks!  Can I use DIM with my file(s)?

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    MaxPolyzos said:

    Can I use DIM with my file(s)?

    If you mean anything like the RAR you mentioned in your first post, no — DIM can only download and install stuff you buy from the DAZ store, which will always be in a .zip archive. I think I've heard of a utility that converts a non-DAZ installer into something that will work in DIM, but I didn't really take much notice of it since I always install content manually myself.

  • zoldoszoldos Posts: 46

    Okay no worries.  I extracted one of the zips.  In the ziip it had a folder "Content" and the following two files: "Manifest.dsx", "Supplement.dsx".  Under "Content" were the folders: "Data", "People", and "Runtime".  I directly extracted these three folders to: Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Daz Connect Library

    I loaded up DAZ 4.10 and it didm't seem to pick up the new content. :( What am I doing wrong?

  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019

    This is a Step-by-step about installing Non-DAZ content to DS, with images: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/927004/#Comment_927004

    It doesn't have the Connect folder in the screenshots as it is pre-connect, but it might give help you... I hope.

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    MaxPolyzos said:

    I directly extracted these three folders to: Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Daz Connect Library

    I loaded up DAZ 4.10 and it didm't seem to pick up the new content. :( What am I doing wrong?

    You're doing it the wrong way round. The "My Daz Connect Library" folder is exactly what it says on the tin — it's a Connect folder location for installing content with Connect, which is done from inside the DAZ|Studio program. Installing manually or with DIM must use any of the other folder locations you should have found in the Content Directory Manager settings.

  • zoldoszoldos Posts: 46

    Okay got it.  I had to make a folder called "My Library" under "Studio" and it picked it right up.  Thanks @spottedkitty and everyone else!

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