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    • SinghRajenM
      SinghRajenM @dinkumoil last edited by

      @dinkumoil

      I don’t agree. I think it is not possible or at least not a good idea to move a plugin DLL file while it is in use.

      It is possible and widely used specially for shell extensions. As you know shell extension dlls are locked in explorer.exe. So during uninstall process, those dlls are moved (MoveFile is the api) to somewhere else (mostly %temp%) and handed over to OS to take care of those temp files on reboot. Unfortunately, that is not followed by npp for its shell. That is the reason, NppShell_06.dll is left even after complete uninstall.

      I think it’s worth to rethink about the whole concept of the plugin update process.

      I second this.

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      • dinkumoil
        dinkumoil last edited by dinkumoil

        @SinghRajenM

        Thank you for your explanation, I didn’t know that.

        But the documentation of MoveFile states:

        The one caveat is that the MoveFile function will fail on directory moves when the destination is on a different volume.

        Thus it would fail on my system. My system disk is an SSD with a size of 256 GB. I’ve splitted it into 2 partitions, one for Windows 7 and one for a (future) Windows 10 Installation. To prevent exhaustive write access to my SSD and to save some space I relocated the %TEMP% directory (and some others) to drive E: which is an additional conventional hard disk.

        So I can say, I like it that Notepad++ doesn’t use this method to deinstall the shell extension, I would only facing errors.

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        • donho
          donho @pnedev last edited by

          @pnedev said:

          Perhaps the APIs sub-folder needs to be located also in %PROGRAMDATA% :
          %PROGRAMDATA%\Notepad++\APIs
          instead of
          %PROGRAMFILES%\Notepad++\plugins\APIs
          because of what @dinkumoil just pointed above - some lexer plugins might want to add some files to APIs as well.

          Good point. It will be in the next release.

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          • donho
            donho @Ketrel last edited by

            @Ketrel said:

            I cannot install any plugins in 7.6.1.
            I load plugin admin, select the plugin I want, and choose install.

            It tells me the program will need to be restarted.
            I select ok, and then it closes, and launches a UAP prompt.
            I approve that, and then the updater tells me there’s an updated version of Notepad++

            If I say yes, it tries to install 7.5.9.
            If I say no, it closes and does nothing further.

            Upon manually reopening, the plugin I selected is NOT installed.

            Your Gup.exe is the old version. Update it from the installer will remedy your problem.

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            • donho
              donho @dinkumoil last edited by

              @dinkumoil said:

              I tested in a VM to install Notepad++ as a normal Windows user. I found that it is only possible to update the plugin list when logged in as an administrator.

              It’s not been done yet. I’ll modify NTFS folder’s right for %PROGRAMDATA%\Notepad++\plugins\Config\ in order to be able to update nppPluginList.dll in the future release.

              Furthermore I was faced with crashes of Notepad++ when terminating it. Also various plugins I installed via Plugin Admin caused a crash. It stops after I have installed the NppFTP plugin. The reason was that this plugin creates the directory %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\Config which did not exist after installation of Notepad++.

              I would say: It’s time for a new release. :-(

              That’s for sure. However, any suggestion for the remedy of crash?

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              • dinkumoil
                dinkumoil @donho last edited by

                @donho said:

                However, any suggestion for the remedy of crash?

                As I already wrote:

                A solution for that issue would be that Notepad++ itself checks the existence of plugins\config and creates them if they are missing.

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                • ?
                  A Former User last edited by A Former User

                  On Windows XP I’m getting this error when I want to install, or update a plugin with Plugins Admin

                  link text

                  Debug info:
                  Notepad++ v7.6.1 (32-bit)
                  Build time : Dec 12 2018 - 01:24:22
                  Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
                  Admin mode : OFF
                  Local Conf mode : OFF
                  OS : Windows XP (32-bit)
                  Plugins : DSpellCheck.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll

                  Should I fill out a bug report?

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                  • ?
                    A Former User last edited by

                    Please can somebody tell me how to post an image? I copied the link but the image is not shown, only the link . . .

                    Thanks.

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                    • PeterJones
                      PeterJones last edited by

                      same syntax, but with a ! before it: ![link text](https://i59.servimg.com/u/f59/19/99/80/82/untitl13.jpg): link text

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                      • ?
                        A Former User @Guest last edited by A Former User

                        OK, first of all sorry for the spam. Now I got it all. I will write down my problem again with details and a screenshot.
                        On Windows XP, Plugins Admin can not be used to install or update a plugin. When I try to install or update a plugin the following error message pops up:

                        Here is the debug info of my installed Notepad++:

                        Notepad++ v7.6.1 (32-bit)
                        Build time : Dec 12 2018 - 01:24:22
                        Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
                        Admin mode : OFF
                        Local Conf mode : OFF
                        OS : Windows XP (32-bit)
                        Plugins : DSpellCheck.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll

                        Should I fill out a bug report for this?

                        P.S.
                        Thanks PeterJones I already got it.

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                        • dinkumoil
                          dinkumoil last edited by

                          @KantorZsolt

                          This bug has already been reported, see here.

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                          • patrickdrd
                            patrickdrd last edited by

                            does the plugin manager work in 7.6.1?

                            I’m running v7.6.1 portable and it doesn’t work for me, “No new plugins available”,
                            I actually deleted it because I thought that it was replaced by the new plugins admin,
                            what could I do?

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                            • Eko palypse
                              Eko palypse @patrickdrd last edited by Eko palypse

                              @patrickdrd

                              I’m running v7.6.1 portable and it doesn’t work for me

                              correct, currently it is only added to the msi package but you can make it work with the portable version.
                              Here is what I did

                              • downloaded https://notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/7.x/7.6.1/npp.7.6.1.bin.x64.7z
                              • downloaded https://notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/7.x/7.6.1/npp.7.6.1.Installer.x64.exe
                              • extracted the 7z into folder C:\temp\761
                              • opened the exe with 7zip and
                              1. extracted the folder updater into c:\temp\761 as well
                              2. extracted nppPluginList.dll to folder C:\temp\761\plugins\Config

                              Start npp and you should see the plugins Admin… under plugin menu.

                              Eko

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                              • patrickdrd
                                patrickdrd last edited by

                                yes, I had read about this and the plugin admin is working,
                                I was asking about the previous plugin manager,
                                should we delete that?

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                                • Eko palypse
                                  Eko palypse last edited by

                                  I would say this is up to you but if there is a
                                  builtin plugin manager I don’t see a fair chance for the
                                  former plugin manager that it will survive for long.
                                  My 2 cents.

                                  Eko

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                                  • Eko palypse
                                    Eko palypse last edited by Eko palypse

                                    Just tested it, if you treat the former plugin manager in the same way
                                    as the new plugins, meaning, creating a folder PluginManager under
                                    plugins directory and copy PluginManager.dll into it, it is available.

                                    But, obviously doesn’t work as expected in terms of installing plugins.

                                    Eko

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                                    • patrickdrd
                                      patrickdrd last edited by

                                      yes, it only lists the plugins, nothing more

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                                      • Eko palypse
                                        Eko palypse @patrickdrd last edited by

                                        @patrickdrd

                                        correct, how should it know about the new folder structure.
                                        One thing which might be useful is to use it to download the plugins
                                        which aren’t migrated yet. Create the directory, copy the downloaded plugin - done - hopefully.

                                        Eko

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                                        • donho
                                          donho @pnedev last edited by

                                          @pnedev said:

                                          As far as I remember, you mentioned adding SHA computing functionality next to the MD5 in the Tools sub-menu (now that the Plugin Admin validates the plugins by SHA). Am I mistaken?

                                          https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/647651b7eed7b6349f2f4f98639e9517f0c189e5

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                                          • pnedev
                                            pnedev last edited by

                                            @donho ,
                                            Great, thanks a lot!

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