After upgrade to 18, custom made materials are gone

SketchUp Pro
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Upgraded to 2018 recently and just noticed all my custom made materials are gone. Anyone have any ideas?

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Where did you use to store them before? 2018 is supposed to be installed as a separate program with its own directory.

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How did you save your custom materials? The way to do it on Mac is a bit different then on Windows.
On a Mac you have lists which you can duplicate and save.

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If you have your own v17 materials folder, you need to either tell v18 where it is using preferences or make a copy in the v18 Users folder…

john

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I keep my custom materials saved in My Documents folder on my PC

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On a Mac and just saved as a list. Of course, I erased v17 so no ability to go back to it.

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what do you mean by a list? can you add a screenshot or the list…

do you not have a folder with .skm files or possibly image files?

where were the v17 .skm files stored?

you do know you can keep both?

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Pretty new to Sketchup John, so I probably didn’t describe this well. And Sketchup recommended I erase v17 when upgrading and I didn’t think about copying my list. Also, I should have said, “Custom Texture Pallet.” So under Colors > Texture Pallets > List > New…I created a new custom List and the went to Color > New Texture… and created new Textures to add to this list. Hope this helps? Thanks for trying to help me guys!

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they may be in your v17 User Materials folder…

~/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Materials

R-Click that line >> Services >> Reveal/Open In Finder…

is it there?

john

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If you’re in the Finder and want to use the Go command (Go>Go to folder…), it seems the string needs to read

~/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2018/SketchUp/Materials

…in other words, that dialog doesn’t seem to want the backslashes preceding spaces. Don’t know why.

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edited the back slashes out…

I should remember not to drag from Terminal…

john

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Yeah, I was thinking that was what you need to do for Terminal…

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Thanks John and RTCool! And there they are, using the Go command you recommended. Awesome! Thanks and have a good weekend!

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