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    • TIGT Offline
      TIG Moderator
      last edited by TIG

      Try the user-name solution I mentioned...
      PS: does the computer's name contain any non ASCII characters ?

      TIG

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      • Rich O BrienR Offline
        Rich O Brien Moderator @fjsgruppe
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        @fjsgruppe said in fredo6 licences:

        c:/users/fjschüssler/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup

        Can you rename your device to not use special characters?

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        • F Offline
          fjsgruppe
          last edited by

          Hi TIG,
          Hi Rich,
          my computer is on the company network and I'm afraid of doing something wrong - I have no idea about networks and I'll better ask our network specialist.
          I will probably be able to change the name of the local PC.

          Schöne Grüße aus Deutschland
          Franz-Josef

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          • TIGT Offline
            TIG Moderator @fjsgruppe
            last edited by

            @fjsgruppe
            There are two possible places that might be tripping things up.

            One is user Windows user-name - as I explained:
            It doesn't follow Windows guidance as it contains an umlaut...
            C:/Users/fjSchüssler
            Try changing your user-name to fjSchussler or fjSchuessler ?
            It needs just ASCII characters and some limited punctuation are required

            Two is your computer-name [IT might need to address that].
            Again, the name's characters requirement is much as stated above...

            TIG

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            • F Offline
              fjsgruppe
              last edited by

              I see!
              Thanks, I do that as soon as possible and will you the results!
              re
              fjs

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              • F Offline
                fjsgruppe
                last edited by

                Unfortunately ‘fjSchüssler’ is the name of the initial registration.
                So it’s a risk and a lot of work to change that.
                And windows seems to tolerate the ‘ü’.

                What I found out:
                There may be some problems with the ‘plugin manager’ and ‘Lord Of the Toolbars’[LOT].
                Plugins activated or not activated, even deleted plugins or plugins I am sure of never integrated in LOT show up in the error message.
                Thanks for your advise.
                I managed to come around by storing/using some new templates.

                re
                fjs

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                • F Offline
                  fjsgruppe
                  last edited by

                  Strange:
                  As a test I deleted an extension (medeek…), ended he program, started it again and SU showed an error belonging to the deleted extension!?

                  Lord Of The Toolbars
                  Some extensions are referenced in palettes but not loaded
                  c:/users/fjschüssler/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup
                  2024/sketchup/plugins/medeek_project_ext/images/layout
                  Jcon [1]

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                  • F Offline
                    fjsgruppe
                    last edited by

                    Hi,
                    I changed the user-name but Sketchup wont let me change the path to the templates

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                    • F Offline
                      fjsgruppe
                      last edited by

                      Because the path is no longer correct, Ican no longer save templates.

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                      • TIGT Offline
                        TIG Moderator
                        last edited by TIG

                        Try repairing, or reinstalling SketchUp whilst in the other named user-account, that should use the correct path without the umlaut.
                        How did you change the user-name ?
                        What does Windows think your username is ?

                        TIG

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                        • F Offline
                          fjsgruppe
                          last edited by

                          Hi TiG,
                          reinstalling/repairing gives an error and installation has to be stoped.
                          See picture.
                          Program is looking for the 'Schüssler'-path.

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                          • F Offline
                            fjsgruppe
                            last edited by

                            And I can't store templates anymore, because SU is trying to store them under the 'Schüssler'-path too.

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                            • F Offline
                              fjsgruppe
                              last edited by

                              And this is shown by windows- User:

                              image.png

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                              • TIGT Offline
                                TIG Moderator
                                last edited by TIG

                                How did you rename the user-account ?
                                Can you revert it back and make a new account 'FJS' and transfer all of your settings over to the new account ?
                                There's lots on line about that...
                                e.g.
                                https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/914152/link-the-new-user-profile-to-existing-user-profile

                                TIG

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                                • F Offline
                                  fjsgruppe
                                  last edited by

                                  I finally messed everything up.

                                  My workstation is connected to our intranet.
                                  My sketchup files are stored on a NAS.

                                  Our network-specialist opened a new user account and connected it to the intranet.
                                  He used a special program to migrate SU pro 2024 to the new user and SU seemed to be working.
                                  Later we deleted the old username.

                                  A time later malfunction started and increased.
                                  I tried some repair installations solved some problems, but couldn’t get it to work properly.
                                  Using templates became impossible, SU was unable to connect to the template path.

                                  Today I deleted SU pro 2024 and tried a complete new setup (SU deleted and admin setup). The setup stopped because of not existing files.
                                  (See the picture), must be the templates file on the no longer existing path. How the hell does SU know about that?

                                  image.png

                                  My classic version of SU pro 2021 still works but - as we forgot to migrate it to the new User before - there is the same trouble with the path to the template folder.

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                                  fjs

                                  Don't worry, be happy!

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                                  • TIGT Offline
                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by TIG

                                    The file: C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\SketchUp\SketchUp 20nn\SketchUp\PrivatePreferences.json
                                    Contains the fixed path to your Templates folder, under:
                                    "File Locations": {
                                    ...
                                    "Templates": "C:\\Users\\YOURNAME\\AppData\\Roaming\\SketchUp\\SketchUp 20nn\\SketchUp\\Templates\\",
                                    ...
                                    }

                                    Note you need to use the correct user-name and SketchUp version in lieu of 20nn.
                                    If you edit that with the right name while SketchUp is closed does that improve things ??
                                    Changing a user-name does not change the underlying original user-name, and if that's happened it could confuse SketchUp when it's setting these fixed paths...
                                    If that's not fixed SketchUp might still try to reset this preferences file to what it thinks is the correct path !

                                    TIG

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                                    • F Offline
                                      fjsgruppe
                                      last edited by

                                      I was changed the json files, the path to the templates is now correct in both SU 2021 & 2024.
                                      There are no more errors reported. Thank you very much!

                                      Still - SU 2024 does not work.
                                      Registration ends in asking to ‘restart the browser’ and stops - although I am activ registated.

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                                      That seems to be a registraiton thing. I'll ask the seller.

                                      Tig: I really appreciate your help
                                      Schöne Grüße aus Deutschland
                                      fjs

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                                      • F Offline
                                        fjsgruppe
                                        last edited by

                                        I changed ...

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                                        • TIGT Offline
                                          TIG Moderator
                                          last edited by TIG

                                          So we have a solution??

                                          The remaining v2024 issue seems different ?
                                          I am not familiar with errors and messages in German...
                                          Perhaps a full re-installation of v2024 would help ?
                                          With the subsequent json file 'fix' ??

                                          TIG

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                                          • F Offline
                                            fjsgruppe
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi TIG,
                                            that json file - the first I ever opened - is really very interesting!
                                            How did you find out about it????? Amazing!

                                            I changed the path name of the templates-file and restored the json file.
                                            That way the job was done.
                                            No more (no file finding-) errors in SU pro 2021 and 2024!

                                            I tried a full re-installation after restoring the json file.
                                            But SU 2024 is still not willing to endup the setup procedure.
                                            It always stops and asks me to restart my browser.
                                            Braking up the process doesn’t show the (no file finding-) error message anymore!

                                            Concerning the installation process I asked SU-support and the German reseller for help.

                                            Thank you very much!

                                            Schöne Grüße
                                            fjs

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