Reactivating the Plugin Browser?

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Hello! I may have gotten myself into a dumb corner here… I accidentally disabled the Plugin Browser which caused “Plugins…” to disappear from the Edit and Settings menus of the Editor so I’ve no obvious way to re-enable it and gain access to my plugins once again. Anyone know how to enable the Plugin Browser after it has been disabled? Thanks!

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Dumb question but…

Have you tried just quitting and re-starting the editor?

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Hello SebDevs,

I guess this is project specific? If you disabled the Plugin browser via the Plugin browser itself, and the above mentioned advice from ClowckworkOcean din’t work out, you can try to edit your .uproject file (found inside your project directory, a simple text editor should do). Inside that file you should find a section that should look something like this:

    "Plugins": [
    		{
    			"Name": "SunPosition",
    			"Enabled": true
    		},
    		{
    			"Name": "Paper2D",
    			"Enabled": false
    		}
    	]

Before you edit the file though:

  1. Close the Project, and wait for it to unload fully.
  2. Backup your files, in case you make a mistake.
  3. As with everything you edit manually, be careful and know what you’re doing, otherwise it may cause unwanted consequences.

Now that’s out of the way, you can remove the delta (in your case that would be the plugin browser) from that file and it should work again. After that edit, here’s what it could look like now:

	"Plugins": [
		{
			"Name": "SunPosition",
			"Enabled": true
		}
	]

Save the file, and restart the engine, and the plugin browser should appear again.

Hope that helps. Just let me know, If I got it wrong, or this didn’t fix it.

Regards,

Vecherka.