How do I troubleshoot an extension problem where sometimes SU opens ok and other times I get a spinning beach ball. I have to Force Quit and then on reopening SU get the option to skip the extensions. When I do this, it loads instantly. All good. But of course, no extensions. So how do I know which one of the 25 or so I routinely use could be causing the issue. Deleting them one at a time from the Plugins folder is going to take ages. Deleting all of them doesn’t tell me which one is problematic. Is it in the crash report somewhere? How do I approach this without spending hours on it - there must be some logging? Any thoughts welcome!
The usual approach is to disable or remove half the extensions and see if the problem exists. If it does, disable half the remaining ones and try again. When you get to the point where the problem doesn’t exist, you know that the issue is with the set that you last disabled. Enable half of what you last disabled and check for the problem. That way you can narrow it down.
Keep in mind it might be a clash of two or more extensions, too.
Before doing any of that, make sure all of your extensions are up to date. Open the Ruby Console in Extensions>Developer. and close SketchUp. When you next open it, the Ruby Console should open with SketchUp and you can check for errors.
Turn half of them off in the extension manager, if it works OK turn half of the rest off, etc.
Thanks - will give it a go.