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[Yury Dudorov <yury.dudorov@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Aalhad,

I saw log files created if '-debug' option is used under a folder
referenced by the TMP or TEMP environment variables.

On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 1:23 PM Aalhad Saraf <aalhad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> I can't get a plugin to be installed -
> https://github.com/Osndok/zim-plugin-nowbutton using 0.73.5 on Windows
> 10.
> I have done a portable installation into C:\work\zim73portable
>
> One issue is that there are *two *plugin folders I can see.
> [1] I can see a folder *C:\work\zim73portable\share\zim\plugins* where
> there are all the plugin .py files and corresponding pyc files in the
> C:\work\zim73portable\share\zim\plugins\__pycache__ folder
> [2] In the edit preferences->Plugins->"Open plugins folder" button route,
> it says that the plugins folder does not exist and offers to create it -
> and it creates *C:\work\data\zim\plugins *(perhaps my $HOME is set to
> C:\work)
>
> So I placed the nowbutton.py in *both* the plugins folders and restart zim
> The plugin does not appear in the enable plugin dialog list and I cannot
> see a .pyc or pyo file that would indicate that zim has tried to load the
> plugin.
>
> Next, I tried running zim.exe from the command line with the --verbose and
> --debug options, but the zim.exe process just brings us back to the command
> line and launches the GUI without any logs in the terminal.
>
> So,
> Q0. Am I missing something basic?
> Q1. Where should I actually place the plugin file?
> Q2. How do I debug this problem? (I am using Windows 10)
>
> Thanks for your kind help.
>
> best,
> Aalhad Saraf
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