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Indesign 2020 (15.0) plugins folder missing

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November 12, 2019
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I just installed InDesign 2020 on a new computer and cannot find where to install plugins. On my original computer, there was a "plugins" subdirectory, but it seems to have disappeared.

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Correct answer NIRC

Thank you. I discovered the missing subdirectory and all is well. Thanks for your help.

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Samantha,

technically spoken a zxp file is no plug-in.

It's an extension that could be installed by the ExMan command-line tool.

Not something for everyone.

The alternatives:

Anastasiy’s Extension Manager

https://install.anastasiy.com/

ZXPInstaller

It will:
Install your .zxp extensions

It will not:
Manage or uninstall your extensions

https://zxpinstaller.com/

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

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NIRCAuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

Thank you. I discovered the missing subdirectory and all is well. Thanks for your help.

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rrouf

Participant

I have tried to drag the files into the plug-in folder, but it still didn't work.

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

Hi,

Are you talking about InDesign on MAC OS? If that is so then if i remember correctly the plugin folder was moved into the InDesign app bundle couple of versions earlier. Right click on the InDesign app icon, select "Show Package Content" and then hopefully you should find your Plugins folders at the path Contents>MacOS. If you create the Plug-Ins folder at the application path itself and place your plugin inside it, it should load. The folder inside the package contains the plugins shipped with the application.

-Manan

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NIRCAuthor

Inspiring

Sorry, but I am on a PC. The instructions given in the first response above say to go to the "Plugins" folder, but my problem is that I cannot find it.

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

I just installed it on my PC and i do see the Plug-Ins folder in the InDesign installation directory. Does your InDesign launch correctly without any issues? If yes then try to create a folder with Plug-Ins name in the installation directory and see if you can do that or not? If InDesign works fine then i suspect it might be some OS level setting issues that is not showing the folder but it is present.

-Manan

Ashutosh_Mishra

Inspiring

Hi there,

We'll be happy to help.
Would you be able to provide us the version of OS?

Also, I'd request you to take a look at the help article: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/plug-ins.html for more information.

Regards,

Ashutosh

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