In order to test my Tcl script, I had to write another one to "break" the files. :blink: As reported earlier, only certain generations of Daz installers are affected, meaning they will not run. It turns out that I did have some files with the extra junk at the end, but they ran anyway. These were the last 2 recent generations of installers. The last clean download I had was the Ultralight on 5/16/2012. Anything I downloaded after that does have the junk in it, but I didn't download any of the older installers after that date. I took one of my old installers that I downloaded before 5/16 and was clean then "broke" it with the break script, and the fix script fixed it. If anybody has files that need breaking, I can do that too. :rolleyes:

Quote - To AtticAnne.  The issue you are talking about is different.  On Windows 7, and I think Vista, the installers would do their thing then when done an error window would pop with the message that the installer may not worked properly.  This was most likely the result of Windows UAC security/babysitter.  The recent issue is with older installers simply not working.  We Windows people are now in the same boat as Mac people when it comes to old installers.

Actually, the problem with old Mac installers is worse, because the only workaround for that is far more painful. This problem was easy to fix. Mac users have to run the Windows installer on a Windows machine, or use a VM. That means paying the Microsoft tax even if they have no other reason to go near it. They hate that...

FWIW, I do have a Tcl script now.

Quote - On Posix systems it takes 2 commands:  "grep -b ..."  followed by "truncate"

Both of these commands are available natively on MacOS and Linux.  And can be installed from any of a dozen packages for Windows.  The functionality can also be created in Perl, Ruby, Rexx, and others.  Again, all of these are available for all platforms.

I wrote the exe, simply because those not interested/capable of using a Hexeditor would want something simple, small, and easy.

Kendall

Yeah, I get that. It turns out I haven't had any corrupted downloads yet, or I might have done it already. I use Tcl a lot. It kind of depends on how long this problem persists and how much of a burden supporting a fix becomes. Frankly, Daz has so much egg on face right now, they could feed omelettes to everybody...

There is another possibility for a fixing program. This could probably be done as a Tcl script. The advantage of that would be that the same script would run on any platform and operate on any file. The disadvantage would be that anybody wanting to use it would have to download and install a Tcl interpreter (free). There are Tcl interpreters for Mac, Windows, Linux, you name it. As long as all the damaged files end with "0AFatal error: ..." it would be easy to have a Tcl script operate on a large number of files all at once. Should I have a go at this, or is the problem well in hand by now? Any indications Daz has fixed this problem on their side? More info on Tcl:

http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads

http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/

Well, with the forums at Daz back up (mostly), I guess it's time to invite all to cllimb out of the lifeboats back onto the cruise ship Daz. :biggrin:

Here are a few oddities from the store: When browsing the store, say you view a product, then use the browser's back button and then go forward again. The list of required products sometimes changes! Also, when using the browser's forward and back buttons in a category, the sort order and criteria do persist (yay!), but sometimes the last item or row of items on one page are replicated on the top of the next page.

See? They should have asked me to beta test this thing before going online. I would have filed at least 20 reports a day. :laugh:

Here's a minor tidbit that could stand fixing on the new forum site: Jaderail created a very nice tutorial for new users on installing zip file content into Daz Studio. The new site has a posting of that title with a link to the original article, you guessed it, to the wrong address for the old forum.   

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/47/

It would be really nice if they either copied the original article into the new forum, or fixed the link...

Windows will not tell you if the file is incomplete. You probably need to flush your browser cache and try the download again. Rename the old file to something.BAD and when you download the new one, compare the sizes. If the installer launches, and you never get the splash screen, the file is corrupted. To flush the cache on Firefox, go to Tools > Clear Recent History. For IE, it is in Internet Settings.

I had no problems with 2 recent downloads.