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    • T Offline
      tomsdesk
      last edited by

      Well, crap...I was afraid of that! Is there a work around or will SU5 die after my 8hrs?

      http://www.tomsdesk.moonfruit.com/
      2.5D Trees & Shrubs!

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      • GaieusG Offline
        Gaieus
        last edited by

        Hi Tom,

        I answered your PM. I read somewhere that Google stopped supporting SU 4 (IMO this shouldn't break existing licenses however) technicallybut it means SU 5 is still supported.

        Gai...

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          tomsdesk
          last edited by

          Well, I did a bunch of differently worded google searches and finally came up with an SU6 answer that worked on SU5, thank god: "right click the desktop icon, click 'run as adminstrator', then fill out the authorization info"...vista is gonna drive me mad isn't?!?

          http://www.tomsdesk.moonfruit.com/
          2.5D Trees & Shrubs!

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            remus
            last edited by

            Once youve got everything installed it isnt too bad πŸ˜‰

            http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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            • GaieusG Offline
              Gaieus
              last edited by

              Oh, sorry, Tom, the "administrator" thing with Vista and SU was kind of obvious to me (and definitely not SU 5 speific) that I didn't even think about it first. Sometimes you even need to run SU first like this in order to get Vista to believe it is legitimate.

              But at least you have it correct now. πŸ‘

              Gai...

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              • AndrewSA Offline
                AndrewS
                last edited by

                @gaieus said:

                Oh, sorry, Tom, the "administrator" thing with Vista and SU was kind of obvious to me (and definitely not SU 5 speific) that I didn't even think about it first. Sometimes you even need to run SU first like this in order to get Vista to believe it is legitimate.

                But at least you have it correct now. πŸ‘

                <Shameless plug>
                In the latest version of SU7, this problem is corrected by some trickery we perform at install time.
                </Shameless Plug>

                Andrew S.
                SketchUp Release Engineer

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                • Chris FullmerC Offline
                  Chris Fullmer
                  last edited by

                  Hey, could you employ that same trickery to over-ride any authorization needed so I can install it on my school computers when I have no admin priveleges at all? πŸ˜„

                  Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                  All my Plugins I've written

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                  • AndrewSA Offline
                    AndrewS
                    last edited by

                    @chris fullmer said:

                    Hey, could you employ that same trickery to over-ride any authorization needed so I can install it on my school computers when I have no admin priveleges at all? πŸ˜„

                    πŸ˜„ I like your thinking, but unfortunately, no. The trickery is to require the user to authenticate at install time, which allows us to perform future licensing operations without requiring the user to choose "run as administrator".

                    Andrew S.
                    SketchUp Release Engineer

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                    • Chris FullmerC Offline
                      Chris Fullmer
                      last edited by

                      Ahh well, wishful thinking πŸ˜„ Thanks for the update on that Andrew. Its always good to know a little bit more about how SU is working, especially since we do quite a bit of installation troubleshooting.

                      Though, not nearly so much since the new version doesn't require the discussed administrator workaround anymore. Thanks!

                      Chris

                      Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                      All my Plugins I've written

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                      • GaieusG Offline
                        Gaieus
                        last edited by

                        @andrews said:

                        In the latest version of SU7, this problem is corrected by some trickery we perform at install time.

                        Thanks for that, Andrew. I haven't come to the happy hance to run SU on Vista yet. Hopefully when XP runs out eventually, Windows 7 (or even later) will replace Vista and be already bugfixed with a couple of service packs. πŸ˜„

                        (Just don't tell me that SU 8 won't support XP as SU 7 doesn't support Win 2000 any longer πŸ˜‰ )

                        Gai...

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                          Anssi
                          last edited by

                          @gaieus said:

                          (Just don't tell me that SU 8 won't support XP as SU 7 doesn't support Win 2000 any longer πŸ˜‰ )

                          SU 8? There's going to be a SU 8? πŸ˜„

                          Anssi

                          securi adversus homines, securi adversus deos rem difficillimam adsecuti sunt, ut illis ne voto quidem opus esset

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                          • GaieusG Offline
                            Gaieus
                            last edited by

                            Sure! With high poly (billions of polys with easy orbiting), multi core, 64 bit, proxy, animation and hdri support and a fix for the shadow bug (actually, a WYSIWYG, real time PR renderer will also be added)
                            πŸ˜’

                            They are now writing the exporters for Max, Cinema4D - even Vue - and all because they will be toys compared to SU.
                            🀣

                            Gai...

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