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    • moltraM
      moltra
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      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?

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      • PeterJonesP
        PeterJones @moltra
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        @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"

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        • moltraM
          moltra @PeterJones
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          @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.

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          • PeterJonesP
            PeterJones @moltra
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            @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.

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            • moltraM
              moltra @PeterJones
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              @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.

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              • PeterJonesP
                PeterJones @moltra
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                @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.

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                • moltraM
                  moltra @PeterJones
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                  @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.

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