CAD file thumbnails broken as of 1.5.0.1392a

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ATW
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CAD file thumbnails broken as of 1.5.0.1392a

Post by ATW »

I don't know how most CAD files are affected, but as far as in my case *.ipt and *.iam files don't show working thumbnails.

I had been running 1.5.0.1383a, and even though I had "Check for updates on startup" checked, it didn't announce that an update was available until yesterday for some reason. Once I installed the latest version the thumbnails stopped working, and I made sure that Everything was not running as administrator.

Going back through the updates, I found that 1.5.0.1391a was the last version that had working thumbnails for those file types.
void
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Re: CAD file thumbnails broken as of 1.5.0.1392a

Post by void »

Thank you for the issue report ATW,

It's caused by the CAD thumbnail handler loading dlls insecurely.

For a work around:
  • From the Start menu, search for:
    regedit
  • Right click Registry Editor and click Run as administrator.
  • In the Registry Editor, navigate to:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies
  • Create the following key:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\voidtools
  • Create the following key:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\voidtools\Everything
  • In this new key, on the right, create a new DWORD value.
  • Set the value name to:
    os_allow_dll_exe_directory
  • Set the value data to:
    1
Restart Everything (Everything -> File -> Exit)

Please let me know if the issue persists.


Going back through the updates, I found that 1.5.0.1391a ...
Thanks for checking each version, this made it easy to find the issue.
ATW
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Re: CAD file thumbnails broken as of 1.5.0.1392a

Post by ATW »

That fixed it, thank you :)
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