Error saving RUI - again

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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The SR8 is downloaded and installed:

V5/64: (5.8.40225.8390, 25.02.2014)
V5/32: (5.8.40225.8390, 25.02.2014)

When Rhino ends, then this comes up in BOTH, V5/64 and V5/32:

Again the question how to go back to SR7.
We need an answer soon.

Thanks,
-C-H-A-R-L-E-S-

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@JohnM I thought you fixed this. Could you please take a look?

@brian, do you have any suggestions for rolling back to SR7?

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There is no need to go back to SR7, there is an easy fix for now. To fix the problem start Rhino, run the Toolbar command, right click on the ā€œPanelingToolsā€ file, choose ā€œSave Asā€ and save the file in your ā€œ%APPDATA%\McNeel\Rhinoceros\5.0\UIā€ folder. This is the same folder your default.rui file is currently in and it is a writable location. I will investigate what might have caused this to happen.

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Going back to SR7 is pretty straightforward, but a little time consuming:

  1. Open Programs and Features
  2. Uninstall everything related to Rhino 5
  3. Download and install SR7 from http://www.rhino3d.com/download/rhino/5.0/latest
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Iā€™m feeling left outā€¦
How do you get a hold of the 2014-02-25 version?
From Rhino, Updates and Statistics says I have the latest version (2014-01-28 which, as mentioned in another thread, I know not to be true). Going to download.mcneel.com and looking for the latest release still only mentions 2014-2-14. [SR7 is 2013-12-13]. Whatā€™s going on?

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Hi Wim- you need to have ā€˜Update frequencyā€™ in Options > Updates and statisticsā€™ set to ā€œService release candidateā€. If that is the setting and you are not seeing updates ā€¦ and Check Now does not give anything useful, let me know, somethingā€™s gone wrong.

-Pascal

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Pascal,
Yup, set to candidates and Check Now doesnā€™t give anything useful. Iā€™ll install the 2014-02-14 that I downloaded manually a while back and see what that gives.
cheers,
wim

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Definitely broken here, was already with the last buildā€¦ still broken in this one. --Mitch

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Yea, a manual install of 2014-02-14 doesnā€™t helpā€¦

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@brian, any ideas why updating seems not to be working?

-Pascal

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Manual installs of older builds do exactly nothing - youā€™ll need to uninstall first.

To manually download the latest RC, visit http://www.rhino3d.com/download/rhino/5.0/latest/rc

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I was able to reproduce the Paneling Tools RUI file writing error and get it fixed. The problem should be resolved in Rhino SR9.

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@brian, I guess you are missing the point. I was not manually installing an older RC over a newer RC. My Rhino said it was up-to-date to the latest RC, which I knew was not correct. I had downloaded a newer RC a while ago but hadnā€™t installed that yet. I was hoping that installing this one would now trigger automatic download of the latest version - which, from everything that is being said in several threads here, sounds like should be the SR8 (final). But it doesnā€™t.

But now youā€™ve got me totally confusedā€¦
http://www.rhino3d.com/download/rhino/5.0/latest - SR7 - 2013-12-13
http://www.rhino3d.com/download/Rhino/5.0/sr - not sure - 2014-02-14 (my current)
http://www.rhino3d.com/download/rhino/5.0/latest/rc - not so sure either - 2014-02-24
But Charles and all of his customers are running the 2014-02-25 versionā€¦

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Now the confusion seems to be completeā€¦

Is there a SR8 or a SR8RC?
Brian said SR7 is the latestā€¦

I got the latest release with this setting:

-C-H-A-R-L-E-S-

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This means it is not possible to uninstall a SR?
In V4 it wasā€¦

-C-H-A-R-L-E-S-

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Yes, that works ok now!

Thanks,
-C-H-A-R-L-E-S-

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No, it wasnā€™t. It always looked like it was, but it never worked. If you wanted to roll back to an earlier version it was necessary to uninstall Rhino, reinstall from the disc and then reinstall the service pack.

ā€“Mitch

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I have the same problem since the last 2 updates.
Version 5 SR8 32-bit
(5.8.40224.15545, 24-2-2014)

Thanks,
Gerard

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It may appear that uninstalling an SR for Rhino 4 worked, but in fact it did only one thing: remove the Add/remove programs entry for the SR. In fact V4 was more complex because you needed to remove ALL installations, including SRs, and then reinstall from scratch to get to a specific service pack.

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SR8 has not yet been released - weā€™re still at RC3, finishing a couple little bugs (including the saving RUI file bug in this thread). Iā€™m not sure how you managed to get SR8 with your setting set to Service Release. Thatā€™s pretty disconcerting.

Fortunately we logged everything the update system did, so we should be able to figure it out. Can you please do the following:

  1. From the Start menu in Windows, type Event Viewer, then press Enter
  2. In the Event Viewer dialog, browse to ā€œApplications and Servicesā€->ā€œMcNeelā€
  3. Right-click ā€œMcNeelā€ then click ā€œSave all events asā€¦ā€
  4. Select ā€œCSV (Comma Separated Values) (*.csv)ā€ from the Save as type drop-down, then save the file to your desktop.
  5. E-mail the resulting CSV file directly to me (brian at mcneel dot com)

I hope Iā€™ll be able to figure out what happened to get you that build.