This is really annoying. No matter what version of blender I use, no matter if I reinstall it or don’t, I still can not access my add ons tab in User Preferences. It is just blank. I’m running Windows 7 64 bit.
This started after I tried following the BlenderCookie simple menu tutorial…
Can you find your scripts folder in your blender directory? if so, check its attributes?
I installed Blender from a .zip file. The add ons folder under Scripts is still full.
I realized that when I try to access the folder, I get a ton of these errors:
Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:\Users\Ben\Documents\Blender\Builds\blender-2.67-r57599-win64\blender-2.67-r57599-win64\2.67\scripts\startup\bl_ui\space_userpref.py”, line 1129, in draw
addons = [(mod, addon_utils.module_bl_info(mod)) for mod in addon_utils.modules(addon_utils.addons_fake_modules)]
File “C:\Users\Ben\Documents\Blender\Builds\blender-2.67-r57599-win64\blender-2.67-r57599-win64\2.67\scripts\modules\addon_utils.py”, line 188, in modules
mod_list.sort(key=lambda mod: (mod.bl_info[“category”],
File “C:\Users\Ben\Documents\Blender\Builds\blender-2.67-r57599-win64\blender-2.67-r57599-win64\2.67\scripts\modules\addon_utils.py”, line 188, in <lambda>
mod_list.sort(key=lambda mod: (mod.bl_info[“category”],
KeyError: ‘category’
location: <unknown location>:-1
Nope that didn’t help. I deleted the script that I thought was making the problem but it still persists
While this is most likely caused by a faulty addon, you should report this as a bug. Do note that addons are loaded both from the installation directory as well as the user directory:
%AppData%\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender
(You can paste this into the explorer path and hit enter)
That didn’t didn’t work. It probably isn’t a bug because it runs across every version of blender that I use on this computer. Is there any way to just completely reset everything? (Other than loading factory settings)
Interesting thing is that I’m loading in scripts into the Text Editor and they run fine, but when I try to install the addon they don’t work… I’ll just manually load the ones I want in for now I guess…