Project plugins often 'break' and require disabling and re-enabling [4.27]

Development Pipeline & Plugins
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I have a couple of plugins that, about half the time I open my project, will be broken. Sometimes one, sometimes both - I don’t think it has anything to do with the plugins, themselves.

Any blueprints using features from those plugins will be full of errors saying ‘cant find blah blah’. I open settings|plugins and they will always be ‘enabled’. The solution I have is to uncheck enabled and restart, then check enabled again and restart again. That usually restores the plugins and I can proceed.

It just started happening a couple months ago but it’s already driving me mad… I have no idea why this happens - has anyone ever experienced this before or have any suggestions?

Thanks

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Hey there @SVR33! I’ve only ever run into this issue myself when I improperly configured a gitignore file in my source control. Source control can cause all sorts of wackiness if misconfigured. Are you using any form of source control?

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This project is not (and has never) used source control.

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Hrm, that makes this especially odd. When it occurs, are the plugin’s folders still inside the project?

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So, the two plugins that do this are both ‘installed to the engine’ and I don’t put a copy of them in the specific project folders, as well.

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Is this a c++ project. Could it be that you are running it from the project icon without building from the ide?

This can cause the c++ classes to go missing wreaking havoc in blueprints that use them.

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Yes and yes!

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