Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: DAZ Installer Problem for Poser

cjw opened this issue on Sep 07, 2011 · 8 posts


cjw posted Wed, 07 September 2011 at 6:00 PM

Just wondering if anyone else has ever had this problem...

When I installed Poser 8, I selected one of the folder path options it suggested.  It seems that the DAZ product installer does not like the one I picked.  For some reason,  DAZ's installer has a bad habit of creating a duplicate "Public Documents" folder in the tree: C:userspublicpublic documentsPoser8 ContentsDAZ

Normally, Windows will not allow two folders with the same name to be in the same folder.  If you attempt to do this, a dialog box will appear that asks if you want to merge the two folders or cancel.  Somehow, the DAZ installer does it anyway.  This has happened on about six occasions with different DAZ products such as V4, M4 ,etc.

 
To fix things, you have to go in and manually copy and paste the contents from this duplicate folder to the correct folder and then delete the new duplicate.  Otherwise the path to the newly installed DAZ content will not be usable.

I sent a report to DAZ, but they said they never heard of this.  When I install products I purchased from other places, the files are zipped, and there is no problem.  I mentioned to DAZ that perhaps they should give customers a choice of using their automated installer or simply get their files zipped.

Thanks for your feedback.