I’m a longtime Poser user I’ve finally committed myself to switching to Daz Studio, but after two days of trying to get it up and running, I’m pulling my hair out and at a loss for what I need to do different or what I’ve done or am doing wrong. I installed the latest version of DS though the Install Manager along with the starter essentials content, letting it place everything in the default locations with no intervention on my part.
I’m on a Mac (10.11.6), so that placed everything at /Users/Shared/My DAZ 3D Library/ on my main drive which from everything Ive read is correct and just as expected. Upon launching DS, logging into my account ,etc., I navigate to the content tab and choose say Genesis 3 Female and immediately get a “Could not open file: People/Genesis 3 Female/Genesis 3 Female.duf File does not exist” error. This is all well and good, but when I navigate to that exact location, the file is indeed sitting there.
I’ve seen several posts here and elsewhere with this error, but no solutions or at least none that seem to work for me. I’ve double checked paths in DS and they point to the aforementioned My DAZ 3D Library, so no issues there. To further add insult to injury, when I drag the file DS says doesn’t exist into the program, it imports and loads up just fine, so obviously the .duf file is fine and the location is readable.
With all of this said, what are my options to fix this? I’ve uninstalled DS and all of it’s related content and done a fresh installation. Twice. And no luck. Prior to realizing I had a library issue, I had a CMS issue, but thankfully I was able to get that resolved by changing the port number as suggested in a couple of posts here, so if I can overcome this roadblock, Ill be back in business or so I hope!