I installed 5.1, then I realized all the marketplace plugins are still in 5.03\Engine\Plugins\Marketplace, since 5.1 is considered a new engine install, the marketplace plugins are not considered installed anymore.
This is very annoying cos I have over 200 plugins, over 100GB in Plugins\Marketplace. I have reinstalled all plugins when I upgraded from v4 to v5, and now I have to do it again to 5.1?
So I tried to download them from marketplace again, howver, it reports error is the plugins is already installed in all compatible versions of the engine, while clearly showing an orange icon in vault browser that there is an update.
I noticed the .egstore folder stores the infomation about the marketplace plugins to keep track of updates, but copying that to 5.1 folder doesn’t work either.
So how do we get marketplace plugins with existing unreal installs?