BUG: Could not add any plugin

[Ethan-Crisp]

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Problem Description

There are several questions when I installed flow on my new laptop:
1.could not add any plugins, when I tap pm, the progresion bar doesn't move at all then the window close. I check the plugins and none of them are installed.
2. can't find everything plugin position, I already installed everything but flow can't find. But it still could search files and I don't know why.
3. what's the meaning of pinyin search? I already tried to test the name but could find anything, I hope I can use english to use flow in the future.

To Reproduce

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Screenshots

Flow Launcher Version

1.2.0

Windows Build Number

[版本 10.0.26100.4349]

Error Log

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[Jack251970]

For 2, you need to set it manually in Setting Window -> Plugins -> Explorer -> Everything Setting -> Everything Path

[Jack251970]

For 3, you can search 微信 with pinyin like wx

[Jack251970]

For 1, you need to type more like pm install, pm uninstall or pm update and then type the plugin name to search

[Ethan-Crisp]

For 1, you need to type more like pm install, pm uninstall or pm update and then type the plugin name to search

This is exactly what i'm doing. and then pop up window disappear, nothing happen

[Ethan-Crisp]

For 2, you need to set it manually in Setting Window -> Plugins -> Explorer -> Everything Setting -> Everything Path

弹警告了，请问如何设置？当前everything插件无法启动

[Jack251970]

For 2, you need to set it manually in Setting Window -> Plugins -> Explorer -> Everything Setting -> Everything Path

弹警告了，请问如何设置？当前everything插件无法启动

Please select the exe path

[Jack251970]

For 1, you need to type more like pm install, pm uninstall or pm update and then type the plugin name to search

This is exactly what i'm doing. and then pop up window disappear, nothing happen

You need to restart Flow to apply plugin change. If you want to restart Flow automatically after you installed one plugin, you can change it from settings in Plugin Manger plugin

[Ethan-Crisp]

For 2, you need to set it manually in Setting Window -> Plugins -> Explorer -> Everything Setting -> Everything Path

弹警告了，请问如何设置？当前everything插件无法启动

Please select the exe path

如图，已经进行设置，路径匹配，仍然弹警告且everything无法启动 Everything Search Exception: Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer.Exceptions.SearchException: Error in the application. ---> Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer.Search.Everything.Exceptions.IPCErrorException: Error in the application. at Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer.Search.Everything.EverythingApi.CheckAndThrowExceptionOnError() in C:\projects\flow-launcher\Plugins\Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer\Search\Everything\EverythingAPI.cs:line 176 at Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer.Search.Everything.EverythingApi.SearchAsync(EverythingSearchOption option, CancellationToken token)+MoveNext() in C:\projects\flow-launcher\Plugins\Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer\Search\Everything\EverythingAPI.cs:line 130 at Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer.Search.Everything.EverythingApi.SearchAsync(EverythingSearchOption option, CancellationToken token)+System.Threading.Tasks.Sources.IValueTaskSource.GetResult() at Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer.Search.Everything.EverythingSearchManager.SearchAsync(String search, CancellationToken token)+MoveNext() in C:\projects\flow-launcher\Plugins\Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer\Search\Everything\EverythingSearchManager.cs:line 73 at Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer.Search.Everything.EverythingSearchManager.SearchAsync(String search, CancellationToken token)+MoveNext() in C:\projects\flow-launcher\Plugins\Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer\Search\Everything\EverythingSearchManager.cs:line 73 at Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer.Search.Everything.EverythingSearchManager.SearchAsync(String search, CancellationToken token)+System.Threading.Tasks.Sources.IValueTaskSource.GetResult() at Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer.Search.SearchManager.SearchAsync(Query query, CancellationToken token) in C:\projects\flow-launcher\Plugins\Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer\Search\SearchManager.cs:line 112 at Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer.Search.SearchManager.SearchAsync(Query query, CancellationToken token) in C:\projects\flow-launcher\Plugins\Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer\Search\SearchManager.cs:line 112 --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer.Search.SearchManager.SearchAsync(Query query, CancellationToken token) in C:\projects\flow-launcher\Plugins\Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer\Search\SearchManager.cs:line 129 at Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer.Main.QueryAsync(Query query, CancellationToken token) in C:\projects\flow-launcher\Plugins\Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer\Main.cs:line 61

[Ethan-Crisp]

For 1, you need to type more like pm install, pm uninstall or pm update and then type the plugin name to search

This is exactly what i'm doing. and then pop up window disappear, nothing happen

You need to restart Flow to apply plugin change. If you want to restart Flow automatically after you installed one plugin, you can change it from settings in Plugin Manger plugin

已经重启过多次，现在问题是下载插件的进度条没有变化，打开plugin文件夹也没有新文件生成，看起来是压根就没有安装成功

[Jack251970]

@Ethan-Crisp Please check your connection to GitHub, the progress should move if you can access to Github download url.

[Jack251970]

@Ethan-Crisp Can this help? #1716.

[Ethan-Crisp]

@Ethan-Crisp Can this help? #1716.

Now the bug is solved and everything is working normally. The reason I guess should be the simple version I downloaded, the process of installation is missing so this bug happened. Please always use the following link to download everything instead of using Baidu.
https://www.voidtools.com/zh-cn/downloads/

[Ethan-Crisp]

@Ethan-Crisp Please check your connection to GitHub, the progress should move if you can access to Github download url.

链接github一切正常，我安装的时候遇到了弹窗，点击运行之后没有安装程序的步骤，直接装好flow文件了，没有让我选取安装地址的过程，可能这会导致问题？

[Jack251970]

@Ethan-Crisp Please check your connection to GitHub, the progress should move if you can access to Github download url.

链接github一切正常，我安装的时候遇到了弹窗，点击运行之后没有安装程序的步骤，直接装好flow文件了，没有让我选取安装地址的过程，可能这会导致问题？

It is normal. Flow installation path is fixed and installer will not pop up that dialog.