Offline installation - Failed to Load Plugin "XYZ"

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At work I work on an environment, where Internet Access is sometimes regulated or blocked. It depends on the target URL.

It’s not possible install community plugins from community plugins settings page. Installation failed

So I downloaded community plugin from GitHub as zip and extracted it to plugin folder within my fault. After restart of obsidian I can see community plugin within the list of installed plugins, but I’m not able to activate it: A popup show error message: Failed to load plugin “XYZ”. Tried with several different plugins. Restricte mode is off.

Any ideas, how I get needed community plugins activated?

Thanks in advance

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It would be helpful if you shared a plugin’s name or GitHub address here. Then folks could test on their end.

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Thanks for the advise. I tested with Templater and Calendar.

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I took these steps:

  1. downloaded Calendar’s main.js and manifest.js files from here: Release 1.5.10 · liamcain/obsidian-calendar-plugin · GitHub
  2. disconnected from wi-fi/LAN
  3. created a new Obsidian vault
  4. created a {VAULT-NAME}/.obsidian/plugins/ folder
  5. created a {VAULT-NAME}/.obsidian/plugins/calendar/ folder
  6. placed Calendar’s main.js and manifest.js in the calendar folder
  7. reloaded Obsidian

Calendar was listed and I could enable it without any errors, all offline.

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I would double-check your folder names are correct and you have the necessary files in their proper place. That’s the only thing I can think of at the moment.

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Many thanks. That way it works.

Instead of copying main.js and manifest.json I copied the whole ZIP folder into plugins folder.

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Glad it worked out. Every plugin is different, but you need at least those two files to get things working.

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Sorry, to bother you again.

I would like to use Periodic Notes template within my setup and installed it the way you recommend above. This time it doesn’t work and I get “Failed to load ‘periodic-notes’” error message.

I took the source code from GitHub version 1.0.0 and tried the beta, too.

I use Obsidian v 1.8.10 on Window 11

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I followed the same steps as above using Release 0.0.17 · liamcain/obsidian-periodic-notes · GitHub and Periodic Notes loaded fine while offline.