Unwanted Plugins

[tigger4t]

Hi, can somebody help please.  In my Filter/Plugins list I usually see just my Topaz Labs plugins but in the last week or so I can now see all sorts of other plugins which were not there before (see screenshots - one with an image loaded and the other without).  I cannot find out where they have come from and the only apps that has been updated recently don't seem to have filters with those names.  Also, when I try to use them either (a) nothing happens or more usually (b) Affinity Photo crashes.  I've checked the FAQs for this subject but apologies if I've missed something.  All help gratefully received.  Thanks, Simon

[walt.farrell]

If plugins are showing up, then either you have added them, or some application you added has added them.

You can look in Preferences, Photoshop Plugins, which will show you the default plugin folder and any other plugin folders you may have added, and what plugins Photo found in them:

[tigger4t]

Thanks Walt,

I've looked there already and can see the same list of plugins that I can see in the app.  I get a slightly different view to yours though - see attached - (v 1.10.5 on MacOS Mojave) which is odd as you list the same version.  The only software that I have added recently is Adobe Bridge (and Creative Cloud) but neither of those are editing apps as far as I am aware - web searches show that Adobe Photoshop has some of these filters though.  

I don't really want to de-install Bridge as I've just invested a lot of time in adding keywords to my photo library but I guess that's the only way to check whether Bridge is the culprit.

 

[walt.farrell]

I'm on Windows, as you can tell from the screenshot (and from my signature if you can see them).

Creative Cloud might have provided them. Or Bridge. I don't have either so I can't say.

You should be able to browse using Finder and determine where those plugins are located. Just search for .plugin files in /Applications and subfolders.

 

[tigger4t]

Problem solved - it was the Adobe apps. Deleted them and the problem in Affinity Photo went away. All I need to do now is find a decent keyword editor to replace Adobe Bridge 

[walt.farrell]

Wouldn't it be easier to just ignore those plugins in the Filter menu?

Or remove/rename the .plugin files you don't want to see?

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Wouldn't it be easier to just ignore those plugins in the Filter menu?

Or remove/rename the .plugin files you don't want to see?

I think the problem is @tigger4t has set the Plugins Search Folders to "/Applications" so it searches everywhere in the Applications folder for anything that is a plugin. So if that just gets changed to whatever folder contains the Topaz plugins, it should not show any of the others.

Note that Plugins Search Folders is not the same as Plugins Support Folders, the latter of which can be left as is to search everywhere for plugin support items.

[tigger4t]

Thanks RC-R - that's exactly what happened. I have now reinstalled Adobe Bridge and have set Affinity Photo to search within the Topaz apps themselves so only pick up the Topaz plugins. Thanks to both of you who responded.