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    • TIGT Offline
      TIG Moderator
      last edited by

      @timurglobal said:

      Just checked, full permiion whenever possible.

      Did the repair and reinstall thing, pretty much a few times.

      About custom templates, however, I do remember that in my last working session (on SU8) I've created a custom frame for A1 (just tweaked already existed one, added logo and stuff) If this affects LO, please, explain how to deal with it, I can delete this template, but not sure where to look for them.

      I just answered that in another thread... http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=481944#p481944

      In case it's somehow got corrupted I suggest you delete it and retry opening LO...
      Clearly something is breaking LO as it starts and since it will 'load' the templates and your custom ones it seems like a possible suspect ?
      Your AppData tree might be hidden from you, so you might have to change your Windows Explorer > Tools > Folder Options... to view hidden files/folders...

      TIG

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      • T Offline
        timurglobal
        last edited by

        Now it is getting really weird. First, there is no custom templates to cause the crash, however there are several files like preferences.xml and other xmls. When I delete them LO starts just fine and after the session creates them again, which makes it start crashing again. Have some guesses but don't know how to fix it, is it my system? I snapped it on screen but can't upload the image here.

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        • T Offline
          timurglobal
          last edited by

          @timurglobal said:

          Now it is getting really weird...

          When delete only preferences.xml LO works, other xmls don't affect LO crashes, only the preferences.xml... Weird

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          • Dave RD Offline
            Dave R
            last edited by

            Why can't you upload the image?

            Click on Upload attachment and upload it.

            upload.png

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            • TIGT Offline
              TIG Moderator
              last edited by

              C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2013\LayOut
              Contains several user specific 'preference-type' files that are used at the startup of LO ? [plo/xml etc]
              These can all be deleted because they are recreated using the LO 'defaults' for any new users or when they are just 'missing'...

              But something about your system causes some of these default files to get re-set inappropriately ๐Ÿ˜•
              Baffled. ๐Ÿ˜ž

              Incidentally, to get all of the post options like attachments click on the long-form 'post a reply' rather than the 'quick-reply' ??

              TIG

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              • T Offline
                timurglobal
                last edited by

                I'm sorry guys, my bad, simply missed the button, a bit exited here, hehe ๐ŸŽ‰ , will finish my project in time, wohoo


                WTF.PNG

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                • TIGT Offline
                  TIG Moderator
                  last edited by

                  ๐Ÿ’ญ
                  Now I see you are 'RUssian'...
                  Are you sure there are no special characters in any of your Layout filepaths.
                  If your user-name etc, or even a custom template or scrapbook file-name contains some Cyrillic characters that could break things... ๐Ÿ˜•

                  TIG

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                  • T Offline
                    timurglobal
                    last edited by

                    @tig said:

                    :idea:
                    Now I see you are 'RUssian'...
                    Are you sure there are no special characters in any of your Layout filepaths.
                    If your user-name etc, or even a custom template or scrapbook file-name contains some Cyrillic characters that could break things... ๐Ÿ˜•

                    Hehe, naah, I'm familiar with the problem you are referring to, I use latin in these situations. But double checking is always a good idea.

                    Look at the size of the prefs.xml, 0 bytes? It creates a blank file all the time.

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                    • T Offline
                      timurglobal
                      last edited by

                      Guess the problem has kinda resolved itself, however, great thanks for everyone who replied, that really helped, thank you guys.

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                      • A Offline
                        adelgark
                        last edited by

                        Hi timurglobal, I got the same problem as you. LO 2013 works fine as long as these files are deleted but they appear every time you close the software and the bug splat screen shows up again. How do you keep these files from appearing again?

                        Thanks!!!

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                        • D Offline
                          Duqu
                          last edited by

                          I am having this problem as well. Is it possible to keep these files from popping up again after I have deleted them?

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                          • TIGT Offline
                            TIG Moderator
                            last edited by

                            Ensure your user-name has no non-ASCII characters in it - i.e. no accented letters etc. ๐Ÿ˜•

                            TIG

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                            • La DuFL Offline
                              La DuF
                              last edited by

                              Hello, Tig !!

                              @tig said:

                              Ensure your user-name has no non-ASCII characters in it - i.e. no accented letters etc. ๐Ÿ˜•

                              Mine has (Franรงois) and this cannot be changed...

                              Anything else I could try ?

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                              • TIGT Offline
                                TIG Moderator
                                last edited by

                                That is probably it ! ๐Ÿ˜•
                                Not even to Francois ?
                                Can't it be changed in the Users control-panel by someone with admin-powers ?

                                This will also cause issues with Ruby scripts etc that use your user-path to save temp files etc...

                                TIG

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                                • R Offline
                                  rogadude
                                  last edited by

                                  I just figured out you have to disable your anivirus software while you use Layout 2013

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                                  • Dave RD Offline
                                    Dave R
                                    last edited by

                                    Really? I don't have to do that with my AV software. Never have.

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                                    • La DuFL Offline
                                      La DuF
                                      last edited by

                                      @dave r said:

                                      Really? I don't have to do that with my AV software. Never have.

                                      Me neither. Never have. And never will...

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                                      • La DuFL Offline
                                        La DuF
                                        last edited by

                                        Hello, you SketchUppers !!

                                        The problem I encountered with a "รง" in my username, causing LO to crash at startup has been solved by installing the latest LO version : 13.0.4812

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                                        • Mike LuceyM Offline
                                          Mike Lucey
                                          last edited by

                                          Thats good news. I'm currently doing an arch job and am finding LayOut 2013 very good indeed. No crashes and workflow is easy ๐Ÿ‘

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                                          • TIGT Offline
                                            TIG Moderator
                                            last edited by

                                            I'm glad that the main issue is resolved.
                                            However, having non-ASCII characters like a cedilla in a User name or any folder path that SketchUp might want to access is a recipe for disaster.
                                            On PCs the version of Ruby shipped with SketchUp is known to have issues with such strings in its File, Dir and IO operations [but MAC works OK, as do newer Ruby versions which are sadly unavailable for us to use via the current API].

                                            So on a PC...
                                            File.exist?("C:/Users/TIG/AppData/Local/Temp/Francois.dat")
                                            will return false if it does not exist... AND true if it exists.
                                            BUT with the cedilla in the path...
                                            File.exist?("C:/Users/TIG/AppData/Local/Temp/Franรงois.dat")
                                            will return false if it does not exist... BUT also false if it exists !!!
                                            Which is pretty useless !

                                            So be prepared that from time to time you might get illogical results from some Plugins...

                                            An update of SketchUp's Ruby is long overdue... this fundamental issue with Ruby's old PC version is a pain...

                                            TIG

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