A valid PostgreSQL CMS connection could not be established

If your name has non-english characters such as İ, ä, ö etc. in your Windows username (which can be checked by following this path: C:\Users), for some reason during the installation of DAZ Studio, it does not install PostgreSQL CMS. The solution is, rather cumbersome.

Either you need to create a new Windows account, and deal with carrying the folders, documents, softwares from your old account to this new account; because it seems like a lot of softwares suffer from the same issue. Or, create a new user account, log-in, and launch DAZ from this new account.

It’ll ask you to put in your username and password. Login, then it’ll install the PostgreSQL CMS; for that user only. Now, go back and log into your original Windows account with non-English characters. Launch DAZ. It’ll throw the same error again, but it’s fine. Now; go to “Edit > Preferences.”

Underneath the CMS settings tab, you’ll see a directory called “Cluster:” and it’ll point to:

If you check that folder in Windows Explorer, you’ll see that it is empty. That’s why you have been getting this a valid PostgreSQL CMS connection could not be established error. Luckily, we can change the directory from that empty folder to:

C:\Users\NewAccountWithOnlyEnglishCharacters\AppData\Roaming\DAZ 3D\cms

Since we already installed the CMS to the account with English-letters-only account, now everything will be working fine. DAZ Studio will still throw this error, whenever you launch the app from your non-English-characters account, but my experience with it has been so far that, it looks like just a cosmetic error. Everything works as expected and you’ll be able to find your smart content.

FaceGen Artist: Can not find the head that I exported, inside of DAZ 3D

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If you created a face in FaceGen Artist without fixing this CMS issue first, unfortunately this newly created/exported asset is unusable. You need’ll need to simply to re-create that.

By default, Facegen Artist exports the face you created to this location:

“C:\Users\Public\Documents\My DAZ 3D Library\data\DAZ 3D\Genesis 8\Male\Morphs\FaceGen”

And DAZ Studio can read any morph/asset you created from this directory automatically, so you do not need to go through any extra file-directing hassle that we did something similar above. But if you created a face before fixing this CMS issue, even if you copy-paste this head file you created into this directory, DAZ will not acknowledge its existence no matter what, it appears to be like. So if this is an issue you’re facing, this has been the solution for me.

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