Hi Uwe, I have good news for you… I’m so happy!
2 hours (!!!) spent with the Regedit, looking for “skp” … and many many others things under that 3 letters. I should have started with “.skp” or “sketchup” … that I did after.
I deleted about 80 entries … 2 of them were refused (even trying to change the rights… no way)
Then I rebooted,
and I reinstalled the last Sketchup 2021, in admin mode.
Everything came back !!!
I’m so happy, it will save me lot of time.
So again, thanks for your support and all your knowledge (maybe intuition !).
it would be better if the car manufacturer sells their car in good running condition rather than the buyer having to take the engine apart to find the fault and especially if he has increased the price by 100%
I went to the wine store to buy a bottle of my favourite ripasso. Only one was left on the shelf. It had a scratch on its label. I still bought it and they charged me the same as for an unscratched one. It tasted the same. I did not file a complaint.
We seem to have a different view of what constitutes a fundamental fault. If missing Explorer thumbnails make SketchUp totally unusable for you, I can only say that you must follow your own judgement.
My irony doesn’t touch your sense of humor.
The absence of thumbnails is obviously not fundamental, I continue to adore Sketchup since Last software, peace to their soul.
What can annoy me a bit is the lack of a clear answer to a small problem, an answer like “this will be solved in a next update” for example rather than dismantling everything to try to solve this problem no fundamental as you say.
I uninstalled 2020 then 2021. Restarted windows then installed SketchUp 2021 only as admin. Now the thumbnails are working. As 2020 was already installed it must have been getting in the way.
Alot of faff to get thumbnails working again … Just visited this page to see how it might be resolved because thumbnails are a pretty important way of navigating assets I store locally. Great that people are willing to go to such lengths to figure out the problem with all the installs and uninstalls etc (I always run as admin upon installation, but do have older versions still installed) … However, Trimble could really do with providing a hotfix / patch for this… Uninstalling then reinstalling SU means mucking about with all the icons and spending LOTS of time installing plugins … not got time for that, so I’ll have to cope with loading in models blind and relying on my file naming.
Just wanted to mention, this topic of getting thumbnails to show in Sketchup Pro 2021. I did what Matheron discussed. This discussion on this same topic is in another set of posts under a different name. I got success without un-installing anything. It does require getting into registry editor, and that always includes the caveat: One can destroy their Windows functionality, and/or the functionality of their programs, including the functioning of Sketchup if one makes even the most tiny of a mistake with registry editor. But if one does the find, edit, save approach to the Sketchup installation, at least for me, it gave me thumbnails and nothing seems crashed as of yet. Dr. Gray
@patrickgray yes fair enough, but Trimble should not expect their customers to edit registry entries so their software can work properly. C’mon Trimble, lets have a proper response and solution via a patch please …
Keep the thread alive is what I think… this thread (and the other sister thread) was opened in November 2020 and still no word?
Thanks IanR
I agree with you 100% that messing around with the registry is just “asking for it.” However…I have 3Gb of Sketchup drawings going back years. For example I decided I needed a self-aligning bearing. I went to the internet to the well known bearing companies. One type of self-aligning bearing is made with two raceways. I thought that concept wouldn’t be that hard to create in Sketchup and I did it for my Ventilator series. Then I had moved on to my Sophisticated Linear Actuator series and I wanted that self-aligning bearing. Without the ability to choose very large thumbnail size and go back through my drawings, I would never have found that self-aligning bearing. At the time I had forgotten that I originally created it in the Ventilator Series. So I was desperate for thumbnails. We can all hope that Sketchup will fix this especially since they’re upgrading the program once a year. Thanks again Dr. Gray
The update didn’t work for me, but deleting SU2020 and then repairing seemed to get the thumbnails back.
However, if I were to double click on any SU model from any date modified or created I get SU7.1 trying to load … which I don’t have installed. Not very helpful
You have obviously your file associations messed up. You can right-click on a Sketchup model file, select Open With… and navigate to your newest SketchUp.exe file. Leave the “Always use…” box ticked.
Anssi the current incarnation of sketchup is impervious to any of those menu choices on some systems. The computer I’m currently on doesn’t even recognize 2021 as existing. If you try to set it to use 2021 by browsing to the correct .exe it still doesn’t work. There is some sort of problem in the registry I guess. A clash between the red logo versions and the new blue version.
I currently have to open 2021 then open from the file menu, any other option fails.
This doesn’t happen on another laptop I have…
