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# put here the source path of your ManifestFiles. 
$sourcepath = "E:\daz\Program Files\directory\Applications\Data\DAZ 3D\InstallManager\ManifestFiles"

# writes all files with the suffix *.dsx in an array
$alldsx = Get-Childitem $sourcepath "*.dsx" -Recurse

# creates array for location
$locations = @() 

# writes all locations of all xml elements (or dsx in our case) in the array $locations
foreach ($dsxobject in $alldsx)
{
# gets content of the dsx file
[xml]$dsx = Get-Content $dsxobject.FullName

# accesses the location information of the data we want to change an attach it to the array
$locations += (Select-Xml -Xml $dsx -XPath '//DAZInstallManifest').Node.UserInstallPath.VALUE

}

# groups and counts all xml files
$locations.GetEnumerator() | Group-Object

# searches and replaces the data we want to change
foreach ($dsxobject in $alldsx)
{

# loads the content
[xml]$dsx = Get-Content $dsxobject.FullName

foreach ($DAZInstallManifest in (Select-Xml -Xml $dsx -Xpath '//DAZInstallManifest'))

{

# put here the value you want to change (open up dsx with note pad and copy past the wrong installation path)
if ($DAZInstallManifest.Node.UserInstallPath.Value -like "H:/daz/Program Files/directory/Applications/Data/DAZ 3D/My DAZ 3D Library")
{

# put here what you want it to change into, in my case the new location of my daz library
$DAZInstallManifest.Node.UserInstallPath.Value = "E:\daz\Program Files\directory\Applications\Data\DAZ 3D\My DAZ 3D Library"
}

# this saves the file
$dsx.Save($dsxobject.FullName)

}

}