Unexpected crash of Rhino and Grasshopper

[chris]

Have you installed antivirus software or are you working on a machine ruled by IT overlords? If so, this post might be the answer:

Honeybee Components Crash Rhino Immediately (Python uuid dependency seems suspect)

I have a plethora of errors in the past few days trying to revive a script. The major issue I am facing is that it seems any time a Honeybee component is attempting to load, it crashes Rhino/Grasshopper without any error log. One thing I found by locking the script containing legacy Honeybee components (and a healthy amount of research and troubleshooting) I noticed the crash always seems to involve components containing code for setting unique uids. (i.e. import uuid) Every single one of those …