True. Now I have yet to receave conformation if DIM is necesary to install C8.5. But the way the DAZ forum reads everyone has used it. If that is the case, that is yet another reason not to buy C8.5.

But in the beta I never used nor needed DIM or CMS. DAZ did something to C8.5 for the release.

Once you get past that, the big issues with C8.5 are the main new features, genesis compatability and autofit. Which work ok at best, certainly not well enough to justafy the price tag though. And not near as well as in Studio; where it's free.

CMS scans your content library; but which one where? So it knows everything in your content library, including any pirated content. It's easy enough to phone home to check your purcheses against what is in your library. And if there is a discrepency I am sure someone at DAZ is notified.

But even looking at it from a practical stand point, doing what it is suposedly designed to do, it is still useless to me. 90-95% of my content would never be listed in it.

Now DIM installs to yet a different studio content folder, someplace else; not at all confusing. Suposedly part of DIM; or is it CMS, is to keep track of any content that gets updated. We'll disregard the absurd notion of DAZ updating content, and ask why we need an app for that? Wouldn't it be better for everyone if we just had a "recently updated" sorting option on our product library page? Then we would just need like a red dot to tell us we have downloaded it since the update. No muss, no fuss, no intrusive app trying to tell me where to install my content.

I mean I am already hacked off DAZ is forcing us in to that cluster F Studio content folder, do they have to add the insult of DIM after the injury of CMS?

Of coarse my opinoin the reason the studio content folder is such a cluster F is puposly to confuse people and discourage them from doing anything in the content folder. At one time, and I have no clue how it ended up this way, I had aniblocks in 4 different palces in my studio content folder and all 4 were listed in Studio.

I'm still looking for a content folder file struckture map, I never found one because I am of the opinon even DAZ isn't sure what goes where. That is why I like the Poser runtime, a place for everything and everything in it's place.

I am a some what of intelegent person, I may be a bit thick but I am not stupid. I do not need help downloading, I do not need help installing, and I do not need help sorting my content. So please quit trying to shuve DIM and CMS down my throat. The more necessary DAZ makes them the less likely I am to shop there. Doesn't matter how nice the dress is if it is chained to the rack and has a GPS tracker on it.

 And yes, the black box is why I will never buy a new car.