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Random order of colors/materials in materials window, on an APFS-formatted drive. (There’s no random material sorting on a HFS+ drive.) [image] [SU 2017 Make, Mac OS] Random order of colors/materials in materials window SketchUp A few days ago, I installed the beta of Ma…

I still haven’t seen this on any of my test laptops that are APFS formatted. Did you specify case-sensitivity? What’s the make/model of your laptop? I’ll swing by the Apple test lab, er… local Apple Store and see if they have a similar model.

I hadn’t looked for this when I was still on journaled. I’m on APFS now, and I see the mixed up colors. Here’s a an image of what I see. [11 AM]

We don’t have a Colors (1) folder. Where’d you get that? My Colors are sorted, and all Colors in that collection are named in the range Color A01 to Color M09, and are all capitalized, so case-sensitivity shouldn’t throw those off. [image]

I may have edited a color long ago, I took the (1) to mean that there was a custom color I had added. The Colors-Named entry looks like this: [09 AM]

Thanks for the pix. Mine don’t look that way on a box with AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2 GB. On a box with Intel HD Graphics 5000 I see this (and the Colors (1), despite the folder being named Colors, and not finding another Colors there. Now that we have a machine to investigate, we’ll dig deeper.

I tried renaming /Applications/SketchUp\ 2017/SketchUp.app/Contents/Resources/Content/Materials/Colors to be ColorsNot, and the entry said ColorsNot. I renamed it back to Colors, and it again shows Colors (1). The folder contents are view by name, and the order seems correct in Finder. Something e…

The exact same thing is happening to me. The “Colors” list is now “Colors (1)”, and what seems like random ordering for every material list – not just colors. MacBook Pro, 13", early 2015, 2.9 GHZ i5, 16 GB RAM, Intel Iris 6100 graphics.

It’s not random - it loads the same way every time. It’s more of a file system thing, from what I’ve discovered: if you do ‘ls -f’ on those colors directories, you get the order that they get loaded in. This happens on some, not all, APFS-formatted High Sierra disks I’ve seen. Still investigatin…

For example, on some APFS or HFS+ machines, if I list the Colors in a bash shell using ls -1f | head I get Color A01.skm Color A02.skm etc… On other machines, I get what you’re probably seeing: Color B03.skm Color H08.skm Color F07.skm Color D05.skm Color D04.skm etc… Is that the order y…

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dan_blather September 18, 2017, 12:40pm 3

Random order of colors/materials in materials window, on an APFS-formatted drive. (There’s no random material sorting on a HFS+ drive.)

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