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The issue popped up again recently.
Found it to be a Skatter issue after all.
I could pull it up on a machine without Skatter plug in installed with ease...would hang forever on my machines that had Skatter installed.
Went in and purged/deleted the Skatter reference on the non-Skatter machine....saved then opened in my Skatter machine (no problem) - then redefined the Skatter perimeters...and works like a charm.

Unsure what the hang up is and once redefined the problem hasn't occurred again.

Yep - me too!
I have been working on a large project for a few months, came back to working on a few site mock ups and noticed the diminished quality of the "add more imagery" when trying to set up my 9 square grid of the city block I was working on.
Ended up grabbing Google Earth Pro and saving the highest resolution and then attempted to scale it to match the blurry DG image.
For some reason I couldn't draw directly on the top of the GEP image, I had to draw from the bottom - very odd.
But I really noticed there was something amis when I started extruding buildings and wanted to "Add Photo Texture..." that was where I was informed of the 5 year contract with Google that had expired and after I made do with just faceless blocks I came here to see what the F was up!

I am looking for a viable alternative for both features I have lost and will be following this and any other thread that pop up on the subject.

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

Check my answer : http://getskatter.com/support/topic/deleting-a-skatter-setup/#post-782

Thanks! Was able to rule one plug-in out of the problem that I am having.

And...it crashed again...damnit!

Will see if I can get an old version to work while trying to bring that one back up.
I had purged out all the unused Skatter setups and purged and fixed the file...still bugsplatted.

Unsure what all would be useful, here is the short report...

Computer: DELL Precision WorkStation T5500
CPU: Intel Xeon E5520 (Nehalem-EP, D0)
2266 MHz (17.00x133.3) @ 2449 MHz (19.00x128.9)
CPU: Intel Xeon E5520 (Nehalem-EP, D0)
2266 MHz (17.00x133.3) @ 2490 MHz (19.00x131.1)
Motherboard: DELL 0D883F
Chipset: Intel 5520 (Tylersburg 36D) + ICH10R
Memory: 12286 MBytes @ 515 MHz, 7.0-7-7-20
Graphics: EVGA e-GeForce GTX Titan
NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN, 6144 MB GDDR5 SDRAM
Drive: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB, 244.2 GB, Serial ATA 6Gb/s @ 3Gb/s
Drive: WDC WD800HLFS-75G6U1, 78.1 GB, Serial ATA 3Gb/s @ 1.5Gb/s
Drive: WDC WD15EADS-22P8B0, 1465.1 GB, Serial ATA 3Gb/s @ 1.5Gb/s
Drive: PLDS DVD+/-RW DH-16AAS, DVD+R DL
Drive: WDC WD20NMVW-11AV3S2, 1953.5 GB, Serial ATA 3Gb/s @ 3Gb/s <-> USB
Sound: Intel ICH10 - High Definition Audio Controller [A0]
Sound: NVIDIA GK110 - High Definition Audio Controller
Network: Broadcom BCM5761 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (x64) Build 7601

I finally got it open again and purged then "Fix Problems" and got this...

@srx said:

I am not an expert, but this looks like data transfer problem, which means it is connected with HDD, RAM and maybe GPU memory. So, I would check difference between two systems. It would be best to post your hardware profiles here. This is a good tool for that http://www.hwinfo.com/

Running it now.

Here are a couple shots of the model to show what I am working with...

Then I hit Render for Thea Render and it Bugsplatted...
Not a good couple days in SketchUp land for me.

Finally Opened! 1 hour later!
5,573,180K w/ 0% CPU...this sounds high in comparison.

On the semi-virgin machine (just loaded Thea and the trial for Skatter)...the same file that is still trying to load on my machine - loads in seconds and has only gotten up to 589,292k memory usage with 0% CPU currently (because it's not loading I would guess).

What oddness....anyone have any ideas what is going on?

It's now climbed to 6,062,---k Memory usage and flickering between 12-13% CPU usage.
Still hasn't finished opening...or it is locked up and I just don't want to admit it.

I've posted over at Skatter...but I'm not 100% sure that that add-on is causing the issue. I suspect it because the file seems to load on a machine that doesn't have Thea or Skatter installed.
Thea has never given me an issue in the past with the Not Responding on startup.

Is there a way to see what SketchUp is hanging or loading when it sits and spins on startup and gives the (Not Responding) designation.

I'm back to waiting on it to load. I left the file opening last night and remoted in to check on it and it finally had loaded...but this morning after looking at the Skatter setups it finally Bug Splatted on me.

Processes show that Memory (3,841,--- K) and CPU of 13...with Memory varying slightly...so it looks like it isn't locked, just working on something in the background.
Status under the Aplications Tab (Windows Task Manager) does show Not Responding...

I'm beginning to think it is the Skatter plugin - I have 7 skatter/renderings on my list. Does anyone know how to kill them, I did try selecting and hitting the minus sign, but they are still showing up.

Any thoughts on if that would cause a lag in opening or loading?

I'll run off and search to see if I can find a thread on Skatter and the ins and outs...

Well - found a copy that finally will load that has most of my morning's work still intact...will try to carry on with that for now. This one was saved right before the cars were added.

Really curious though why it would open on another machine, but not mine.

I am still carrying around this garbage that I haven't gotten around to fixing. Pops up every time I start the program...more of an annoyance than anything...but figured I would disclose this in case it somehow has any bearing on this issue:

@unknownuser said:

Error: #<LoadError: 193: %1 is not a valid Win32 application. - C:/Users/adehon/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/Cadspan/socket.so>
C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/Tools/RubyStdLib/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:in require' C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/Tools/RubyStdLib/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:in require'
c:/users/adehon/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2015/sketchup/plugins/cadspan.rbs:8:in <main>' SketchUp:1:in eval'