Saving style, get error message

Hi Colin
No, I select .zip files and extract them with a double-click - they remain .zip files until I do.

Hi Dave
It drags, but nothing happens - it just skips back to the SU window.
I had tried that, looking for a work-around :wink:

So doing this doesn’t work?

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Nope.
Not sure if this recording will work…

I wrote:

Sorry Dave - I didn’t read that carefully enough!
I never use thumbnails, as I prefer to see my description for styles :wink:
That works :-))
And the styles import into the other models!
Good one! Much obliged!

Still, there does seem to be a problem that will catch out other Mac users…

Good.

There was a thing a few years ago in which users couldn’t save out components by right clicking on them and choosing Save as … Dragging and dropping the thumbnail as I showed with styles did work however. I wonder if this is related.

I don’t know why it is but the thumbnail view for styles and components has always been required to do the drag and drop between panes thing.

Hi Dave
That’s a good memory you have :slight_smile:
What a bonus for us regular users to have you out there, jumping in to solve our myriad of issues.
As always, much appreciated!

Thank you. I can remember things like that but not what I had for breakfast this morning. :wink:

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Dragging while in list view, or right-click save as when in list view, both work ok for me. So still something different about your system.

Well, it seems today it is working - right click on the icon for the style, and it is showing up in my folder. Last week it wouldn’t do it, regardless of where I tried, I ended up copy / pasting into my main model.

I will report back next time it happens…

Hi Colin
I’m quite sure dragging in ‘list view’ used to work for me…
The thumbnails don’t do it for me, and I prefer ‘list view’, so am hopeful it’ll start working again.
I have no idea of the mechanism behind the operation, so couldn’t begin to fathom why it would work, then stop, and, in https://forums.sketchup.com/u/bmike’s case, suddenly start working again.