If SketchUp crashes when opening on Mac OS X

[Tommy]

Continuing the discussion from OS X Yosemite testers?:

@glynwinter

Hi Dan, for me Sketchup always opens with the last project pre-loaded, so the second I get past the nag screen “Start using sketchup” then boom it crashes before I have a chance to close any windows. I do seem to have had success (fingers crossed, it’s working so far) by deleting the preferences using terminal with Sketchup closed and then typing in the following

defaults delete com.sketchup.SketchUp.2014

Hopefully, that has fixed it since it seems to be working OK - I have a few hours work to do in Sketchup today so I will confirm how well that went later

Heya Glynwinter,

Nice fix! This is actually a setting in OS X that you can turn off. Unfortunately, there’s an additional tweak you need to do even after disabling the feature.

1. Open System Preferences (Finder > Applications)
2. Click the General button
3. Check “Close windows when quitting an application” or UNcheck “Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps.” It depends on which version of OS X you’re using that determines the name of the feature.
4. Open new Terminal window (Finder > Applications > Utilities)
5. Type open -F /Applications/SketchUp\ 2014/SketchUp.app and press Return.

You only have to do this procedure once. You can open SketchUp normally from here on out.