IMPORTANT: For instructions on updating your Toolbox to 2012, please read this article first - http://www.javelin-tech.com/blog/2012/02/upgrading-toolbox-to-2012/
If SolidWorks is updated to a later service pack, you may find yourself in a situation when trying to use the Toolbox that it is failing with a message stating that the Toolbox database is “…not the expected version”, thereby preventing the use of the Toolbox. The common cause of this is when upgrading to a newer version of SolidWorks, the right Toolbox location is not “pointed to” during the SolidWorks installation process and therefore is missed during the upgrade process. This is more common with network shared Toolbox setups.
The solution is to update the Toolbox database using the UpdateBrowserData.exe utility found in C:\Program Files\SolidWorks\SolidWorks\ Toolbox\data utilities\.
See the image below to learn how to use this utility.
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