Plugin file missing
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when I open my sketchup 2014 folder from my C drive there is no plugin file there to import new plugins...
Where am i suposed to look??
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Have you installed any Plugins using the Preferences > Extensions > Install... button ?
What is the path to the 'Plugins' folder you are looking in ?
It is in the Users AppData path NOT with SketchUp.exe !Use this entry in the Ruby Console to file the correct Plugins folder:
Sketchup.find_support_file('Plugins') -
I don't know why they chose to put plugins in a hidden system folder... but they did. Perhaps they created the installer and wanted to avert all of the problems with bad installations. I don't know what the reasoning was, but this is how it is in 2014 and 2015.
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@tig said:
Have you installed any Plugins using the Preferences > Extensions > Install... button ?
What is the path to the 'Plugins' folder you are looking in ?
It is in the Users AppData path NOT with SketchUp.exe !Use this entry in the Ruby Console to file the correct Plugins folder:
Sketchup.find_support_file('Plugins')got to the ruby file ... but thats as far as I got....
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@krisidious said:
I don't know why they chose to put plugins in a hidden system folder... but they did. Perhaps they created the installer and wanted to avert all of the problems with bad installations. I don't know what the reasoning was, but this is how it is in 2014 and 2015.
Maybe i should find an earlier version... -
@krisidious said:
I don't know why they chose to put plugins in a hidden system folder... but they did. Perhaps they created the installer and wanted to avert all of the problems with bad installations. I don't know what the reasoning was, but this is how it is in 2014 and 2015.
Kris, surely you've seen the endless string of questions over the last few years from people who couldn't install plugins into the Plugins folder in C:\Program Files because Microsoft locked up folders in that directory. With SU2014 the Plugins folder was located in a directory that isn't locked up so installing plugins there is painless especially for those people who are essentially computer illiterate.
Perhaps you never spent hours answering the same questions about how to change security settings so users could install plugins without screwing it up. You never had to help a guy who managed to rename his hard drive from
to SketchUp: while he was trying to install plugins. Not to mention those folks who managed to entirely destroy the file structure of extensions they were trying to install.With Install Extension, Extension Warehouse, and The Sketchucation Plugin Store, there's really no reason anyone needs to get into that folder directly. And there's a whole lot fewer problems for users. Well, except when they refuse to use the tools provided.
@coolair said:
Maybe i should find an earlier version...
That doesn't seem like a very good reason to revert to an earlier version.
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@coolair said:
Maybe i should find an earlier version...
that won't make it easier, in fact it will be harder, things have improved with each new version...
if you can, install v2015 for the least issues, then read up on the many threads explaining how to instal plugins...
the methods for v2014 and v2015 are the same, but make sure you only add 'version compatable' plugins.
cross posting with dave, but will carry on
john
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