[Q] Mac: Automatic plugin loading folder for Lightroom 8.3 - macOS

[Naoki-Hada]

Hi all,

I cannot make Automatic plug-in loading on Lightroom Classic 8.3 on Mac.

Page 37 of Lightroom SDK 8.3 SDK Guide.pdf has following.

Is following information correct?

Any other folder should I use?

In Mac OS (all users)

        /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules

But I could not make it work.

I tried following as well.

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/PlugIns

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Plugins

For detail.

Current project is using installer to install to Application package/Contents/Plugins.

It will be break on macOS Catalina.

So I'm trying to change above /Library/... folder.

But it seems not working from SDK doc info.

Page 37 of Lightroom SDK 8.3 SDK Guide.pdf:

Thank you

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[Sahil.Chawla]

Hi Naoki,

That does not sound good, have you tried this method to install the plugin in Lightroom? How to Install Lightroom Plugin - YouTube

Let us know if it helps.

Regards,
Sahil

[Naoki-Hada]

Hi Sahil,

Thank you very much for following up.

The YouTube video is just showing manually adding plugin to Lightroom.

In my case, "Automatic plug-in loading" is very important. It is because to avoid extra steps on end user side.

Currently plugin installer prompt user to restart Lightroom. It is simple enough and accepted.

I tried user's Library folder and verified that  "Automatic plug-in loading" is working.

• ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules

This case is plugin installer and uninstaller required more complicated implementation.

So I'm still looking for All user case.

Is SDK info correct?

Thank you,

Naoki

[JohanElzenga]

I believe you can only use the ‘current user’ location for third party plugins nowadays.

[Naoki-Hada]

Hi JohanElzenga​

I think you're right.

I'm working on separate project on Illustrator (AIP plugin). SDK docs are CC 2017 as latest.

Page 8 has location info. And only current user's folder except app installed folder.

https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/illustrator/pdf/sdk/programmers-guide-2017.pdf

Thank you,

Naoki

[Aayush5CB5]

In my case, the plugin loads via command line script but is disabled.
I am not sure how to load it via script so that it is automatically enabled.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks