Can Any Confirm Survey Tools Working in 2013?

Box

You can always do it the old way, rename your plugin folder to something else, like PluginsFull, make a new empty one and put the survey rb in it and see if it works, if it does then you know you need to find the errant plugin.

Krisidious

Yup... That did it. SO I guess this plugin that is causing the issue is also affecting Plugin Installer. Well at least I can get my survey done now. Thanks guys.

Dave R

Sorry, I had to go fix an anesthesia machine so the gas passer could do their job.

I suggested breaking your collection of plugins into several sets so you could put only a few plugins back at a time. That way, when the Surveytool quit working you would know that the offending plugin was in the last set you enabled. As long as it is working, though... You can work on sorting out which bad plugin you've got at your leisure.

Krisidious

Yeah it would make it much easier if I could use the plugin installer to do the sets. I'll report back on who the culprit is.

TIG

The Plugins Manager and its Sets will NOT work unless you have FULL read/write security permission to the Plugins folder.
With appropriate Admin privileges...
context-menu > Properties > Security > Edit...
Give every user/group listed FULL permissions.
Also set SketchUp.exe to 'always run as administrator' in Properties > Compatibility

The failure to keep the Disabling of Plugins or using Sets is a clear indication you have inappropriate security settings for your Plugins folder...

Krisidious

See... I knew it... I made the mistake of using an old hard drive with an operating system already on it last time I had a melt down. permissions are all screwy on it. I've tried to set them up, but it just hasn't taken correctly. It says it's admin, but it's not fully.

Box

@krisidious said:

Why do I get the feeling Tig is getting ready to tell me I don't have admin rights to SU?

Chris Fullmer

Kris's TIG-y sense was tingling?

TIG

Another weirdness is that if you have given your P's Plugins a custom icon, then although it might appear to have FULL permissions, Windows can have reduced your permissions slightly, this can be sufficient to limit your ability to write/manage files in the folder...

Also, simply being an Admin or having SketchUp 'run as admin' is not sufficient IF Windows has limited your permissions [which is the default for new folders formed in the Programs Files tree]

Your new FULL security permissions for the Plugins folder ought to filter down to apply to its contents too, as these should be set by default to take their permissions from their 'container'. However, it is worth checking this has happened too...