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.