HELP!!! lost ruby functions

chucky

Hi all; think I just made a serious boo-boo.
I downloaded & installed Cadfather's 'SCF Standard Toolbar a couple of nights ago. But ever since then I cannot activate(it's there,but dimmed) some plugins, most important of all; Sandbox & Greyscale.
I am sure it might be the early version of some of the common files such as 'progressbar' & 'parametric' (see jpg) that may have overwritten the newer ones & ceased these plugins.
I have even tried 'repairing' and reinstalling SU(7.1), but still get the same result.

Does anyone know what to do other than deleting my whole Plugins folder & reinstalling all my plugins because I might not have all of the original zip/install files?

Thanks

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mac1

Would not take that step yet:

What is in your present plugin folder? I think 7 does not have a repair option and if you reinstalled your plugin folder it may have been over written or did you delete SU with the and / remove option before reinstalling?. You still have the tool bar after reinstall so that means they were not over written;
I have not used this plugin. Have you checked the window, preferences, extensions and see if you have to activate it first. Also check and see what is in the view tool bar drop down:
You can remove the tool bar plugins and see if you can get back to a base line but you will have to make sure you do not remove some rb's used by other programs.
Yor screen shot shows the archive. How did you extract?. What you have in the plugin folder should mirror what is shown it the screen shot. I checked CadFather's down load site but did not find any install instruction there. It maybe in one of the rb's?
BTW I always keep my rb"s in a separate folder apart from SU and then load form there so you will have the zip files etc. If you copy vs move them to SU

TIG

The files should be extracted from the zip file in the same relative relationships - I keeping all subfolders and their contents in them...
If you have accidentally 'exploded' the files all into the Plugins folder please move them out of there and try again.
I see nothing with the files in the zip that should cause problems...
You can rename the file in Plugins cd_standard_m.rb as cd_standard_m.rb.TXT so it doesn't auto-load - then they'll be no new toolbar etc.
You could be experiencing the 'gray-out' issue caused by having too many 'commands' loading - although this usually affects the context-menu first...
Sketchup can only have a certain number of commands loading before it starts forgetting some of them [i.e. they are 'grayed-out']. You can have several hundred but you might have reached the limit with this new addition... Some of Fredo's tools had a unfortunate side effect of adding multiple commands - the current versions all fix this issue so check these are all up to date too. Most authors now ensure that their tools only add one command set to try to minimize such disruption. There is a tool '!!!ContextMenuOptimizer_loader.rb' by AlexM [ http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=252413#p252413 ] that also helps with this issue - there's also a lot more stuff about the problem in that thread too.
Perhaps the best fix is to go through your scripts and find those you never/rarely use and rename them with a '.TXT 'suffix, so they don't auto-load - if you find you would like to use one occasionally you can then type into the Ruby Console load "the_scripts_name.rb.TXT" and it'll load for just that session, or rename t again so that it ends in '.rb' and it'll auto-load thereafter [on a restart].

chucky

Guys, thanks for the responses & sorry to get back so late on this subject.

TIG: Checked out the contextmenuoptimizer & read thru' the threads; came to the conclusion that I am also a bit of a plugin junkie. So I did some housecleaning & basically did a reinstallation with a meaner & leaner plugin folder.

MAC1: Following your advice & keeping a backup of all my important plugs.

PROBLEM SOLVED!

Thanks again guys.