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    • TIGT
      TIG Moderator
      last edited by

      💭
      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... 😕

      TIG

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        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... 😕

        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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          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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            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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              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
                TIG Moderator
                last edited by

                Ensure your user-name has no non-ASCII characters in it - i.e. no accented letters etc. 😕

                TIG

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                • La DuFL
                  La DuF
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                  Hello, Tig !!

                  @tig said:

                  Ensure your user-name has no non-ASCII characters in it - i.e. no accented letters etc. 😕

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

                  Anything else I could try ?

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                  • TIGT
                    TIG Moderator
                    last edited by

                    That is probably it ! 😕
                    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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                      rogadude
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                      I just figured out you have to disable your anivirus software while you use Layout 2013

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

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                        • La DuFL
                          La DuF
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                          @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
                            La DuF
                            last edited by

                            Hello, you SketchUppers !!

                            The problem I encountered with a "ç" 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
                              Mike Lucey
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                              Thats good news. I'm currently doing an arch job and am finding LayOut 2013 very good indeed. No crashes and workflow is easy 👍

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                              • TIGT
                                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/François.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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