Nicolas Goutte

Nice to hear that you could find out more.

Jim Wilson had once answered 8:

Well, personally I did encrypt on Windows on VW 2019. (Yes, sure by VS call, not by VW directly) As for HFS/APFS difference, I have just thought of it because we were bitten by some differences just last week (on something else in VW's world, not encryption) Good question, indeed, to double-check if there would be still any error or warning

OK, that leaves not many options left for you to have a quick workaround. I can only think of two possible ways you could try: - a Mac running an older macOS - a Mac running macOS 10.14 but on another filesystem (HFS versus APFS, of course case-insensitive, as VW does not work on case-sensitive file systems) Also, you might try to encrypt a brand-new VS. Does it work?

The simplest solution would be probably to try to encrypt on Windows (if possible for you).

That was for VW 2018 (where the switch to Unicode was done).

It was the first idea I had when I have seen this thread. However I am not sure if it is need or not, if you do not encrypt per script (unlike we do). (That is why I have answered with such a delay.) As for documentation, see http://developer.vectorworks.net/index.php/VS:EncryptPlugin

Could it be that the BatchEncryption Plugin is missing oder otherwise mismatching to the version you use?

Nowadays most serial numbers are without dongle, for example E serial numbers. Therefore the problem that you see does not appear in that case.

@RussU Do you mean quoting like that? I have no problem (Safari on Mac)

I do not think you can have so much control of the UI through the SDK. (However I do not mind if someone comes up with a solution I would not see... or know.)

It is not Linux by itself, it is the case-sensitive file system. You cannot start VW on Mac either, while using a case-sensitive HFS or APFS volume. VW was simply not designed to be very (very) careful about how calling the files in the code. (For example, those are bugs you would not detect on Windows.)

Indeed, that is what I would recommend too: use Python. VS was not meant for handling large files. You could even use the csv module, if your data is organized in columns (be it comma separated, separated by tabs or any similar tabular format that the csv module supports).

Thank you for the feedback. I will try next time to answer to check all display drivers, not only the main ones.

The German VW seems to have it: "RAL Design Demo". (The original American VW does not have it.)