On Jul 27, 2014, at 3:05 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 7/27/2014, 1:31 PM, Peter M. Brigham wrote:
>> On the Mac these days the plugins folder is within the LiveCode app
>> package (LiveCode xxx.app/Contents/Tools/Plugins/). On Windows the
>> plugins folder should be visible with no hassle.
> 
> That folder is meant only for the plugins that ship with LiveCode, and if you 
> put custom ones in there they will no longer be found when you update to a 
> new version.
> 
> The preferred location for user plugins is in a folder named Plugins, inside 
> a folder you specify in Preferences in the Files and Memory pane. You'll need 
> to create that folder if this is the first plugin you've installed.
> 
> I've put my plugins folder into Dropbox and pointed all my copies of LiveCode 
> to it so that no matter what machine I'm on or what version of LiveCode I'm 
> running, they all use the same plugin set. It should be inside an enclosing 
> folder that will/can also hold other LiveCode resource folders. The path to 
> my LiveCode extensions folder is:
> 
> Dropbox/Application Support/Livecode/Plugins/
> 
> I manually created all the containing folders.

Thanks for this, Jacques. I think I knew all this, but the knowledge doesn't 
always get translated into action….

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmb...@gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig


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