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[Aalhad Saraf <aalhad@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Yury,

Thanks! That helped a lot.
For every invocation of zim with --debug, a new folder with an 8 character
random suffix was being created in TEMP,
like zim-_6zv4btr, zim-1betm73z, ...
and those folders had the zim.log files.

Since there can be a lot of those folders - one for each time we run with
--debug, it might be a good idea to print out the logging folder name
before exiting the terminal and firing up the GUI - so that the log
location for the current instance is easily known.

And as far as the plugin directory is concerned, $HOME\data\zim\plugins
worked ... the problem was that the plugin was not being loaded silently
because of a bug (some GTK code that is not compatible with zim 0.7+) I
tried putting another working plugin in all probable locations and found
out the folder that worked.

Thanks once again!
best,
Aalhad Saraf





On Fri, 28 May 2021 at 18:16, Yury Dudorov <yury.dudorov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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