Uninstall
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Thanks to all for some wonderful plugins, however, if you try a plugin and decide not to have it, how do you uninstall it? Is the only way to go into the plugins directory and manually delete files?
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yup!
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Or leave the
.rb
file in the Plugins folder and rename it with a.txt
suffix so it won't auto-load, then you can always turn it back into a.rb
file later, OR load it as you want it by typing into the Ruby Consoleload "plugin_name.txt"
- it'll then load that tool just for that particular model in that session only. -
I'm also having the same problem of junk plugins...some plugins don't have the same name but a shortened name...it's really difficult to search for them using the Windows Search option as it won't search the exact name of the plugin
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I have a .zip file installer/uninstaller for SketchUp (Windows.) Let me work on it over this weekend and see if I can make it safe for release (or at least testing.)
Something like this depends on plug-in authors building the .zip in a certain way. Luckily, every file I have tested is created properly .
What I mean is that when a .zip is extracted, the contents should be as they would appear in the Plugins folder:
my_plugin.zip my_plugin.rb my_plugin_folder
What about existing files, you may ask? As it is, plug-ins must use unique file and folder names, so I figure it's OK to over-write existing files and folder when installing. And safe to delete them when un-installed.
The exception is when a file is shared and installed by separate plug-ins. In this case, removing the shared file will break the other plug-ins that may use it.
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