Community-plugins.json

[AP2023]

I ask because I’ve wasted the afternoon on this serious problem, and I haven’t solved it yet, but now I’m too tired to continue.

Is there a guarantee that community-plugins.json will continue to exist on all platforms? I ask because Copilot, among his 1000 ravings, swore that it had been abolished on Windows, and only after I demonstrated to him that it still exists did he say that it had been reinstated.

So I ask: is this story true? Was it really removed and then restored? Is there a guarantee that it will continue to exist forever?

Is it correct that that file contains the list of active plugins, and therefore if it’s missing it’s because it’s deactivated?

[Pch]

The community-plugins.json (stored within the .obsidian config folder of each vault) has, as far as I can remember, always been there …

@AP2023

Is it correct that that file contains the list of active plugins, and therefore if it’s missing it’s because it’s deactivated?

From what I can see, yes, that would be correct …
If a plugin isn’t in that file, it’s disabled (but still potentially installed in the vault)

I can only speak for Mac, iPhone and iPad though … but I don’t see why it would be different on Windows.

[ariehen]

In the future, please skip the chatbots and come directly here (or Obsidian’s Discord server) to save yourself and others time

community-plugins.json is most certainly alive and well on Windows. You can run the Debug info command to crosscheck what’s listed in the file.

Screenshot from Windows 11, Obsidian 1.12.5

[AP2023]

@ariehen

skip the chatbots

You’re right: I keep fooling myself into thinking that chatbots respond with accurate information.

If it had given me accurate information, I wouldn’t have started this conversation.

Thanks for the information.