I am on a steam version of blender on macOS and I attempt to open the menu at the top of the viewport, but a black bar with an x shows up, as well as "Cannot search, client is not accessible. (search.py:329)" in red under the black box. I have no Idea what this means.

[fckjars]

Bug Description

When I...

Environment Information - Bug happens on:

• BlenderKit version: v3.y.z
• Blender version and source (blender.org, Steam, Snap, package manager, etc.): vX.Y.Z (from: )
• Operating system & architecture: Win10/Win11 (x86_64/ARM64), MacOS (Intel/Apple Silicon), Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora... (x86_64/ARM64)
• Using VPN, proxy, or firewall? (Yes/No/Not sure, please describe if applicable):

Error Logs

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Steps to Reproduce

[agajdosi]

Hello @fckjars, thank you for the report. BlenderKit-Client is a background process which offloads some of the work from the Blender process to make it faster. In case of search the request goes like this: addon ----> Client ----> server. Client has to run.

Could you please provide us the console logs from the Blender, so we can see why is not the Client starting?

Quick fix should be:

1. locate Global Directory - it is shown in the add-on preferences, by default in HOME/blenderkit_data
2. in global directory go to client/bin/v1.1.1
3. start the Client's .exe file which is there
4. start Blender, add-on will connect to the Client which you have just started in step 3