[josm-dev] Update Plugins fails

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Raphael Studer wrote:

>> After reading Dirk's mail about the TagChecker, i tried to download
>> the newest plugin.
>> So downloading the latest.jar and then update the plugins.
>>
>> This updating was done in less then a second!!
>> The jar files in the C:\Documents and
>> Settings\Myuser\ApplicationData\JOSM\plugins dir have got an age about
>> 10 months and more..
>> After restarting josm and try to update them again, the same plugins
>> needed an update witch take again less then a second.
>>
>> Does anyone have the same problem?
>
> I've done the same (without updating josm) at home with a different
> computer. It toke the same time (less then a second) to update 6
> plugins. But there are new plugins in the plugin direcotry..

Solution for the dumb: Try removing the whole plugin directory on your 
other machine and redownload the whole set. When this works, fine. If not 
we need to find the reason.

In my opinion computers sometimes do what they want. Reinstalling and 
deleting is the best in these situations :-)

Ciao
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