{"id":1190,"date":"2016-07-28T13:52:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T13:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avastar.online\/?page_id=1190"},"modified":"2016-07-28T13:52:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T13:52:48","slug":"installation-issues","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/avalab.org\/avastar\/legacy\/help\/troubleshooting\/installation-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Installation Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"span6 rhcol\">Installing an Addon should be a straight forward and easy task. But despite our attempt to make things easy, sometimes things go wrong. This Guide is a collection of Issues which have been reported by others. Ok, we have only one issue by now, but we add them as they get reported.<\/div>\n<div class=\"span6 rhcol\"><div class=\"symple-box  green center \" style=\"text-align:center;width: 50%;\"> Don&#8217;t Panic. Your problem can be fixed.<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"symple-toggle state-closed \"><h3 class=\"symple-toggle-trigger \">DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application<\/h3><div class=\"symple-toggle-container symple-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"rhcol span7\">\n<p>This happens on Windows when your Blender Application Data folder is corrupted. We never found a good reason for when this happens, but it does happen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rhcol span5\"><div class=\"symple-box  yellow center \" style=\"text-align:left;\"> <strong>Note<\/strong>: This issue is also documented in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/manual\/troubleshooting\/python.html#mixed-python-libraries-dll-s\">Blender manual<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Fix<\/h4>\n<p>Clean up your Application Data. You find the data here:<\/p>\n<pre>C:\\Users\\&lt;username&gt;\\AppData\\Roaming\\Blender Foundation\\Blender\\&lt;release&gt;<\/pre>\n<h4>Details<\/h4>\n<p>Sometimes another Addon installation pollutes the Application data folder with scripts and libraries from older blender versions. This can easily make it impossible to install another Addon. We ensure that our Addons never creates such sort of pollution. And here is how you can get out of this issue:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Locate the Blender Application data folder (see above)<\/li>\n<li>within the folder locate the subfolder that is named like your Blender release, for example:\n<pre><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> Blender Foundation\\blender\\2.77<\/span><\/em><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>rename this folder to something like\n<pre><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> Blender Foundation\\blender\\2.77_hide<\/span><\/em><\/pre>\n<p>Note: The name is not important, use whatever is convenient for you. You even can delete the folder if you like, but see below!<\/li>\n<li>Now restart Blender<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This will cleanup your application data folder. But take care! This resets blender to its Factory settings. Any other Addon that you have installed is no longer visible and you need to install them again. However you can use the hidden subfolder ( <em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">2.77_hide<\/span><\/em> in my example) to recreate your installation. Although in most cases it seems easier to install all of your Addons again.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installing an Addon should be a straight forward and easy task. But despite our attempt to make things easy, sometimes things go wrong. This Guide is a collection of Issues which have been reported by others. 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