Is it possible to delete plugins from command line

[moltra]

I just installed a plugin and now I cannot open Notepad ++. I can open it if I use the -noPlugin option on the command line. But it does not show any plugins being installed. I am also unable to delete the plugin folder due to Company restrictions.

I would think that the option noPlugin would show the installed plugin and allow them to be deleted.

Any Ideas?

[PeterJones]

@moltra said in Is it possible to delete plugins from command line:

I am also unable to delete the plugin folder due to Company restrictions.

If you are not able to delete from the Plugins Directory, how did you install? Notepad++ doesn’t have any magic permissions beyond you. It can ask for elevated permissions through the UAC if needed… but then, so can you – for example, run an elevated cmd.exe.

So I would suggest: run cmd.exe as Administrator, then del /S "c:\Program Files\Notepad++\Plugins\BadPluginNameHere"

[moltra]

@PeterJones The Company that I work for, uses a program for authorizing the installation of programs. and I think that they just need to add the program to it and it will let me install and delete the program. But I do not have permission to delete folders in the program files folder.
I do not have permission to run programs as Admin.

I might just have to uninstall Notepad++ and then reinstall it.

[PeterJones]

@moltra said in Is it possible to delete plugins from command line:

@PeterJones The Company that I work for, uses a program for authorizing the installation of programs. and I think that they just need to add the program to it and it will let me install and delete the program.
But I do not have permission to delete folders in the program files folder.

I am doubtful, then, whether the Plugins Admin would be able to delete a plugin, because it requires the ability to delete a folder. Then again, it allowed you to install the plugin, so maybe it would have.

I do not have permission to run programs as Admin.

I am then curious why you bothered asking “from the command line” if you don’t have a command line interface that has permissions to delete a folder.

I might just have to uninstall Notepad++ and then reinstall it.

Good luck.

[moltra]

@PeterJones I can run from the command line, just not as an admin
I have started Notepad++ with the noplugin option from the command line.

[PeterJones]

@moltra said in Is it possible to delete plugins from command line:

@PeterJones I can run from the command line, just not as an admin
I have started Notepad++ with the noplugin option from the command line.

You rather missed my point.

But to make it clear: Notepad++ has no way to drive the Plugins Admin tool from the command line, so you cannot use command-line options to uninstall a specific plugin.

[moltra]

@PeterJones ok thanks, I uninstalled it using the companies software center and it is still not starting. I am going to have to get IT support to help delete the Notepad++ folder and then I can reinstall.