OSX mountain Lion - plugins? no worky...

schaferron1

I have downloaded the Fredo sets and others to my downloads folder. Mountain Lion uncompresses zip files and places them in folders with the same name as the zip file. So, I have taken the files from this renamed zip folder and placed them into the plugins folder.

I have taken screen shots of the plugins folder with the scripts inside and the error messages that came up once I started sketchup Pro 8.

don't know how to add images to this post.. so I have put the images on my site. Go to second page - main page - go to bottom - select login - and you will be at a gallery that has the screen shots.

http://www.ronschaferarch.us

The plugins don't load.. I'm sure I doing something silly.

Please help!

Thanks in advance!

TIG

Please learn how to attach images etc to your post - it's quite easy.
There's an 'upload attachment' option below the post/reply typing-pane...
You'll get a better response if the 'helper' doesn't have to go off looking for your site etc...

You have not installed these properly.
There are many files and even subfolders that ought to be inside other subfolder.
Typically a complex toolset like this installs one or two .rb files in the 'plugins' folder and then there's a subfolder containing other files and perhaps further subfolders within that containing images etc... I can see many of these are directly inside the 'plugins' folder and not where they must be. This set up WILL break many things!

If the zip automatically extracts the files to a subfolder and keeps the files that were in subfolders inside those subfolders, then thats OK - you simple move any files and any subfolders [containing their files etc] into 'plugins' in one lump...
However, if it destroys the subfolders and puts everything into one shared folder, then it is both illogical and all but impossible to fix... moving those loose files directly into plugins will break the tools and perhaps other things !
So if it's your fault and you have moved files out of subfolders them please redo the install and remove all files in plugins that ought to be elsewhere...
If it's the OS doing this to you there must be a setting in Safari to stop this, and either extract files maintaining the original zip archive's subfolder structure, OR stop it unzipping them all together, so you can manually extract them in the correct way....

dale

If you go to Safari > Preferences > General and uncheck "Open 'safe' files after downloading" , Safari will stop unzipping the files.
cheers

Dave R

This is exactly what I was telling you in your other post and in response to your private message. I wonder how many times you have to read the same things before you'll get on with it.