Runchat plugin not loading

[theoutside (Kyle Houchens)]

@Gwyl_Jahn I’m seeing this same behavior in the latest Runchat plugin, and the same fix applies-
have to delete the folders for the older versions

Introducing RhinoBanana – an AI visualisation plugin for Rhino

Hi Marc, Thank you for reporting this. It looks like the plugin is not being properly uninstalled, which results in both the old and the new versions being present. I’m afraid the best way to resolve this for now is to go to: %AppData%\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\8.0\RhinoBanana\ and delete the 0.1.6 folder. You may need to have Rhino closed while doing this. I definitely need to solve this before shipping the next update. Sorry for the inconvenience. Best regards, Johan

[Gwyl_Jahn]

Thanks Kyle - this was happening on my machine and presumed it was from local dev. Will investigate!

[Gwyl_Jahn]

If anyone else sees this and has the same issue, here is how to crush it.

1 - Delete all Runchat plugin folders for all installed versions of Rhino from %AppData%\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages

2 - Open Rhino and run PluginManager. Check to make sure Runchat isn’t listed there. If it is, you have the fun task of needing to remove it from the registry. Copy the registry path like this:

Then open Regedit and paste the key into the address bar:

Then, delete the folder with that specific GUID. Be careful, don’t delete anything else. No other folders. No parent folders. Just the one in Plugins / [GUID]. Restart Rhino.

3 - Reinstall Runchat from the package manager.

PS - this will work for any plugin with the ID already in use error.