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Plugins Not Installing (Suspect Windows 7 "Feature")
Submitted by jgamble on Saturday, 7 January, 2012 - 00:42
I've installed jEdit on my new Windows 7 computer, and cannot upgrade plugins or install new ones.

After attempting to upgrade Template, I got the message "The plugin C:\Users\John M Gamble\.jedit\jars\Templates.jar could not be removed", followed by "Error while downloading the plugin, please try another mirror".

New plugins went through the download process (successfully), but then reported "Error while downloading the plugin, please try another mirror" for each one. Changing the plugin installation directory in Global Options from "jEdit settings directory" to "jEdit application directory" had no effect.

I tried this with jEdit version 4.3.3 and 4.4.2 as well, with the same results. I installed the latest version of Java (jdk-7u1-windows-x64.exe), with no change.

So this problem appears to be Windows related, but I can't seem to find anything that would cause this. Which is annoying, as I really need to use the GitPlugin. Any ideas?
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by Robert Schwenn on Sun, 08/01/2012 - 13:55
jEdit isn't up to date in Windows integration. Please try to copy and delete a file manually to the mentioned locations. If You are able to do this jEdit should be able, too. Then the error message may be correct Eye-wink.

Otherwise I see two workarounds:
1. Change Your access rights for ~\.jedit folder
2. Move jEdit installation directory away from "C:\Program Files" to a folder where You have full acess rights.

Robert
 
I had the same problem when t
by mdSeattle on Tue, 21/08/2012 - 22:51
I had the same problem when trying to install a plugin under Windows 7.

To get around it, I opened up the Properties for C:\Program Files\jEdit and unchecked the Read-only attribute.
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