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bruderstein / nppPluginManager

Notepad++ Plugin Manager
http://www.brotherstone.co.uk/npp/pm/
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No plugin manager at all #137

Closed SaturnusDJ closed 5 years ago

SaturnusDJ commented 5 years ago

After updating Notepad++ (32-bit) to the latest version I found out today that plugin manager is gone. Since I didn't install from scratch this should not have happened?

So, downloaded plugin manager (32-bit) from here and put it in the right place. Still not showing. Put it in the %APPDATA% paths. Still not showing. Tried to import it. Nothing.

Running as admin does show a plugins menu (running as normal user does not) and 'plugins admin' but I get the feeling this is something else.

Reinstalled from scratch while keeping user configs etc: Deselected plugin managers etc in installed. Manually inserted the dll from this GitHub. It does work but only when running as admin.

chcg commented 5 years ago

@SaturnusDJ See https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-7.6-released.html.

FOR PLUGIN USERS: to remedy this problem, after the update, you can : Find the name of plugin you want to migrate in %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Notepad++\plugins\myAwesomePlugin.dll (or %PROGRAMFILES%\Notepad++\plugins\myAwesomePlugin.dll, according the achetecture of your Notepad++). go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Notepad++\plugins\ to create myAwesomePlugin folder. move the plungin myAwesomePlugin.dll from %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Notepad++\plugins\ to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Notepad++\plugins\myAwesomePlugin. That’s it. Restart Notepad++ and you get your beloved plugins back.

SaturnusDJ commented 5 years ago

@chcg thanks. That worked.

I then tried to use Plugin Manager. It does download plugins, but to the 'old' Program Files path. So I had to move plugins again according to the suggested text. Will this be the new standard behaviour or will there be a fix in the future?

chcg commented 5 years ago

@SaturnusDJ Maybe there will be a fix for that, if it is possible to properly distinguish between installation variants before 7.6 and after. The change came in quite lately. And there are ongoing discussions about the new locations\configurations files. So I will wait some time until it has settled and the future direction is more clear.