Species 1.6 shutil error fix

[Eric Thivierge]

For anyone experiencing an error saying that:

ERROR Species Error: Message: NameError: global name 'shutil' is not defined

I apologize for the issue and we will be pushing out a fix next week to fix that. In the mean time you can fix it yourself with little to no pain by editing 1 python file.

Find the following file:
Workgroup\Addons\ExocortexSpecies1.5\Application\Modules\species\tools\preferences.py

Open it in a text editor and add the following line:
import shutil

after this line:
import traceback

So that the top of the file looks like:

from win32com.client import constants as c

from win32com.client.dynamic import Dispatch as d

import os

import sys

import traceback

import shutil

Save the file and close it. In the same directory if you see a preferences.pyc file, delete it. Restart Softimage and you should be in business. This error is likely only occurring for people who haven't upgraded to 1.5x versions from previous versions. I do apologize and if you have any more issues after that please email us at this email address: sup...@species.zendesk.com

Thank you and we'll have a new release out ASAP that includes this fix and also the other one for the custom proprig folder menu.

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Eric Thivierge
http://www.ethivierge.com