Uninstall

bowlr

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?

thomthom

yup!

TIG

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 Console load "plugin_name.txt" - it'll then load that tool just for that particular model in that session only.

arjunmax09

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

Jim

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.