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Hi

I want to install a number of plugins to use with LC 7.0.6 commercial.

I have recently re-installed Win 7 on to an SSD and have the default 'My Documents' folder on a separate disc to the OS.

I have installed 7.0.5 and 7.0.6 and neither has created a 'My Livecode' folder in the 'My Documents' folder.

I created the missing folders and set the location of plugins in LiveCode's preferences to G:/My Documents/My LiveCode/Plugins which is my default folder - no luck - plugins I put in here don't appear in LC.
I created the folders in the C:\Users\Ian\Documents\My LiveCode\Plugins for that not to work either.
When I put the plugins into the plugins folder in C:\Program Files (x86)\RunRev\LiveCode 7.0.6 it works as it should.
I restarted LC every time I made a change and I'm baffled by what has always been a straight forward installation process.

I'm sure its something trivial but I would appreciate any pointers to a solution.

Thanks

LiveCode doesn't provide a way to choose a Plugins folder per se, instead providing a place to choose a "User Extensions" folder, which can include plugins, externals, and more.

Try selecting the folder containing your Plugins folder and let us know what happens.

Hi and thanks for the quick reply.

I created an extensions folder here G:\My Documents\My LiveCode\LC User Extensions\Plugins and set the location in LC preferences. Restarting LC still only shows the 'default' plugins present in the installation folder.

I've been away from LC for a while but in previous versions (and I thought in v7 also) that a 'My LiveCode' folder was created in the My Documents folder into which plugins could be put. As I said I had to create my own such folder.

Strange. The simple answer is to put the few plugins I need into the installation folder but I was hoping to avoid this.

Thanks

In prefs,instead of this:
G:\My Documents\My LiveCode\LC User Extensions\Plugins

...use this:
G:\My Documents\My LiveCode\LC User Extensions

That did the trick! Thanks very much. I knew it had to be something straight forward.
Again many thanks.