Restored the whole Time Machine backup of “/Library/DAZ 3D/Content Management Service/databases” to their original location. Copied the “databases” folder to my desktop just in case.Ħ. The backup sizes were significantly different (larger).Ĥ. Inspected the database sizes on disk and compared them to my Time Machine backup sizes. ![]() Located the backup version (from 4 days ago when it was still working) of the CMS databases folder within Time Machine backups.ģ. Located the CMS database here: “/Library/DAZ 3D/Content Management Service/databases” on my iMac.Ģ. I used the following method to restore my CMS Database on my iMac OS X 10.8.4ġ. I much prefer to use DIM for purchased content download and installation, but manually download Applications, Plugins etc from my account page then install them myself.Īnyway I hope this helps, just my 5 cents worth. The long and the short of it all is this, use DIM it is excellent, but bear in mind you have to pay attention to what is in the list in front of you. But only if you know what you are doing and are paying 100% attention! Even then they reappear next time you run DIM anyway. Yes I hear you say, “but you can remove unwanted downloads and hide them so they don’t install”. That is what killed or corrupted my CMS content database. Only to find that to my horror DIM was reinstalling DAZ3D Studio 4.6 Pro 64bit and the 32bit version as well. In my case I was not really paying attention to list of available downloads and just thought it was the content I had purchased along with a few content updates, so I hit the GO button. They also use the same CMS service and databases. ![]() ![]() As they are not compatible on the same machine. I don’t know why DAZ in their wisdom decided to include applications like DAZ3D Studio 4.6 Pro 32 bit for Mac as well as the 64 bit version. Not very spectacular when installing content, or more importantly not installing for reasons that will become apparent shortly. Although relatively easy to use it is not very intuitive and in most areas I found out how to use it by trial and error. Now it would seem the newer version also finds, downloads and wants to install DAZ applications as well. Originally DIM would only allow you to download and install content (and updates) purchased from the DAZ Store, and was very good at it saving a lot of time and frustration. This in itself is not a huge problem, just annoying.Ģ. It will only allow content to be installed in a “Shared” directory/folder notably (on an OS X system) “/users/Shared/My DAZ 3D Library”, you cannot at the time of this writing nominate any other folder of your choosing. Well, not intentionally, but it does have some quirks that are well worth noting.ġ. That is until it does exactly the opposite and causes applications to not work properly, as was the case in a previous blog post where it actually killed the CMS database. Content went into the correct place and the world was all warm and fuzzy. Then along came DIM a godsend to most, easy straight forward to use. Zip files were (and are) even worse on a Mac as there is no native merge directory utility as there is with the modern versions of MS Windows. Not only did you need to execute the install program, you needed to know where to put the content properly so that everything worked as it should. When you had a few to a lot of content to install it was a laborious task that took ages. The operation is very simple, all parameters can be adjusted by just dragging the mouse.Prior to the advent of the DAZ Install Manager now known to many now simply as DIM, all content had to be installed manually using an executable file or zip file. It quickly and easily creates (or randomly generates) a face model from one or more photos. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.įaceGen Artist (the successor of FaceGen Exporter) is an application for creating realistic 3D human face meshes specially for DAZ Studio, developed by Singular Inversions from Canada. Otherwise, please bear all the consequences by yourself. Otherwise, you may receive a variety of copyright complaints and have to deal with them by yourself.īefore using (especially downloading) any resources shared by AppNee, please first go to read our F.A.Q. page more or less. ![]() To repost or reproduce, you must add an explicit footnote along with the URL to this article!Īny manual or automated whole-website collecting/crawling behaviors are strictly prohibited.Īny resources shared on AppNee are limited to personal study and research only, any form of commercial behaviors are strictly prohibited. This article along with all titles and tags are the original content of AppNee.
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