Command line tools not working for InDesign 13.0.1 on Windows

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November 21, 2017
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Hello,

I am developing extension for Adobe InDesign for Mac and Windows. I recently upgraded to InDesign 13.0.1 on Windows and now I can not get the Extension Manager Command line tools to work with InDesign. InDesign CC 2018 is not listed as a product when I run 'ExManCmd \list all' command. When I try to install an extension targeted for InDesign 13.0.1 version, I errors out and again the \list command does not list InDesign 2018 or its extensions.

Was there new version of command line tools rolled out with InDesign 13.0.1 ? If yes, can you please give me the link?

Also, is there a way to manually uninstall an extension from Adobe product, i.e., when I can not get the command line tools to uninstall an extension installed on a previous version of InDesign?

Any help is much appreciated.

Regards,

Swati.

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Trevor:

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Hi Swati

this would seem to be the most recent version.

Adobe Exchange

You can manually uninstall an extension by deleting it from the extensions folder.

See some useful links here

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Swati999Author

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I downloaded the latest version of command line tools and I still get the same error. The 'ExManCmd.exe /list all' command on Windows still does not list the latest version of InDesign (13.0.1), which is installed on my machine. However, the corresponding command for Mac 'ExManCmd --list all' runs perfect and lists the latest version of InDesign 13.0.1

Can not seem to get around this.

Any help is appreciated.

- Swati.

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Swati999Author

Known Participant

As it turns out that particular Windows machine is problematic. Although I have not been able to solve the problem on that machine, I installed latest version of InDesign (13.0.1) to another Windows machine and the command line tools work just fine in detecting the products and managing their extensions.

I tried these things on that problematic machine to no avail:

> Uninstall and reinstall Adobe InDesign 13.0.1 using admin login.

> Download the command line tools fresh and run command to list Adobe products.

But even after fresh install, command line tool does not list InDesign.

Are there any hidden folders that keep settings or preferences or any other information that do not go away even after uninstall? I do check remove preferences option at the time of uninstall. Any insights?

Thanks much.