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    bowesy
    last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 10:47

    Ah ok! I'll drag the plugins folder out of contents and see how I go. Cheers.

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      TIG Moderator
      last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 12:44

      To find where your OS looks for Plugins paste this into the Ruby Console:

      Sketchup.find_support_file("Plugins")
      

      The string returned is the path to the Plugins folder - so put your plugins & sub-folders into there ???

      TIG

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        bowesy
        last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 13:29

        Thanks TIG. SU looks in plugins according to that string. I've time machined back to an earlier version of my SU and got all the plugins back but I have noticed that it never had sketchup.rb in there. Neither is there a tools folder available. Do you have the plug-in sketchup.rb at all?

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          thomthom
          last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 13:40

          @bowesy said:

          Thanks TIG. SU looks in plugins according to that string. I've time machined back to an earlier version of my SU and got all the plugins back but I have noticed that it never had sketchup.rb in there. Neither is there a tools folder available. Do you have the plug-in sketchup.rb at all?

          Where abouts in the system are you now? Where did you get the sketchup.rb file?
          sketchup.rb is a file all plugins require and should be left where Sketchup installs it.

          Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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            bowesy
            last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 13:47

            From what I can gather it cant ever have been there. I've read that this has been a bit of a problem with SU6 - some copies just didn't ship with it and some sketchup.rb files were old versions and didn't work with SU6. I downloaded a copy from somewhere - may well have been an archived page from the Google site but it didn't work

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              thomthom
              last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 13:50

              Some plugins might have shipped a copy, and if that's an old copy it will cause problems. You should not need to download an extra copy.

              Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
              List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                thomthom
                last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 13:56

                I checked my Windows installation - sketchup.rb is located in the Tools folder where Sketchup was installed. Not sure where it belongs in Mac, but you should never have to deal with that file at all. You might want to reinstall Sketchup again to get a clean installation.

                Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                  bowesy
                  last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 14:04

                  I've just had a eureka moment!! Thanks Jeff and thanks ThomThom - it's obvious that I'm not that computer literate isn't it?! If only I had followed ThomThom's directions to the letter earlier we wouldn't still be here!!?

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                    jeff hammond
                    last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 14:06

                    @bowesy said:

                    Ah ok! I'll drag the plugins folder out of contents and see how I go. Cheers.

                    no, don't do that..

                    thom pointed this out earlier but i'll try again..

                    this:

                    applications>Google Sketchup>Contents>Plugins

                    is not the same thing as this:

                    Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/

                    (which is where the plugins should be placed)

                    you're right clicking on the SU app icon and that's not where you need to be.. follow the path highlighted in red above

                    dotdotdot

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                      thomthom
                      last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 14:17

                      I'm still wondering where you got that sketchup.rb file from... might you have moved it away from somewhere you should not?

                      Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                        dale
                        last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 15:06

                        On my mac the SketchUp.rb is located in the HD/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/tools
                        If you use spotlight you can trace it. My get info window looks as follows:


                        Picture 76.png

                        Just monkeying around....like Monsanto

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                          bowesy
                          last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 20:17

                          Cant remember where I found the sketchup.rb file. I'll check thru my history files - think I probably googled "sketchup.rb download" and then just searched through!

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                            thomthom
                            last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 21:58

                            @honoluludesktop said:

                            In a windows box, don't you need to install sketchup.rb in the plugin folder? Or will the system find it in the Tools folder?

                            No, you never need to bother about the sketchup.rb file. It's installed by Sketchup. And the Tools folder acts just like the Plugins folder with the exception that it contains the bundled Sketchup ruby extensions.

                            Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                              honoluludesktop
                              last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 22:00

                              In a windows box, don't you need to install sketchup.rb in the plugin folder? Or will the system find it in the Tools folder? Hmm....The file in the plugin folder is different from the one in Tools, which has something for the ruby console.

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                                honoluludesktop
                                last edited by 3 Nov 2009, 22:03

                                Thanks, I must have done something s****d, like copy the file from v6.x, when I didn't see it in the v7.x plugin folder.

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