pluginconfig.txt mac

[ThomasHilstad]

as this old content of pluginconfig.txt dosnt work any more after 19.4, I wonder what it should be instead. Havnt found any examples that makes this clear...

=Path

=Exclude
:Plug-Ins:UI:InCopyFileActions.InDesignPlugin
:Plug-Ins:UI:InCopyFileActionsUI.InDesignPlugin

[Dirk Becker]

PluginConfig still works if you use POSIX paths.

Some time ago there were also changes on which of its own plug-ins InDesign requires - far more of them.

[ThomasHilstad]

If I understand right InCopyFileActions is one that isnt "blocked/alerted", regarding to this page https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/use-plugin-config.html

I tried a lot of paths in POSIX, as the relative path above doesnt seem to work. Havnt figured ou yet how to write the path in exclude...

[Dirk Becker]

I'm only using the =Path clause pointing to folders that hold my own plug-ins. 

Posix path, absolute, outside the app folder, surrounded by double quotes, no trailing slash.

There were also positive reports about =Exclude using relative path, no double quotes, space unescaped.

Not sure what controls the starting point for relative paths - do you have unusual cwd settings in Xcode?

[ThomasHilstad]

Just using it in a textfile that is included in the installer, before we used to let the installer remove the Incopy plugin InCopyFileActions when we installed our. But Adobe puts it back in every update of incopy and then you had to remove it manually again or run the installer again. Therefore it was more easy to put this textfil in the application folder for InCopy...

this one seems to work

=Exclude
/Applications/Adobe InCopy 2025/Adobe InCopy 2025.app/Contents/MacOS/Plug-Ins/UI/InCopyFileActions.InDesignPlugin

but I feel it should be safer if I can figure out how to use a relative path instead