Force plugin Re-Install

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Fri Apr 07, 2017 6:39 am
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Force plugin Re-Install

It would be useful if when double clicking on a plugin to install it, Indigo had the option to Re-Install and Enable if it is the plugin version hasn't changed. At the moment you only get the option to Enable if Necessary.

To get round this you need to edit the existing plugin's info.plist to an older version number and then reload it before doing the install again.

Thanks for considering. :)

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Fri Apr 07, 2017 7:42 am
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Re: Force plugin Re-Install

Request added.

FYI, I believe the quickest way to get a plugin re-installed in this case (vers num not incremented) would be to just replace the existing plugin (in the plugins folder), and then reload it.

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Fri Apr 07, 2017 9:07 am
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Re: Force plugin Re-Install

Are you experiencing this as a by product of your development? It shouldn't be necessary outside of the development process I don't believe.

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Re: Force plugin Re-Install

He's experiencing it as a part of *my* development. :D


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Re: Force plugin Re-Install

Ah... 8)

Replacing the plugin in the /Library/Application Support/Perceptive Automation/Indigo 7/Plugins/ folder is the best option. Just create an alias of it on the desktop and instead of double-clicking it just drag it to the alias. Then reload it in Indigo.

I figured it had to be part of someone's development process. Either that or we had a very bad developer releasing updates without bumping the version number... :shock:

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Fri Apr 07, 2017 9:42 am
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Re: Force plugin Re-Install

jay (support) wrote:
I figured it had to be part of someone's development process. Either that or we had a very bad developer releasing updates without bumping the version number... :shock:


That's been known to happen. :oops:

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Fri Apr 07, 2017 9:47 am
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Re: Force plugin Re-Install

Jon's very graciously helping me test some changes and I've fallen into the habit of incrementing at release. I need to be better about that.

I totally use aliases locally. That I a great time saver.


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symlinks to a central location are a huge time saver.

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