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So, I moved onto Windows 8 and have not had any problems with the transition. However, I tried to embed my AnimationEngine and Scrapbook plugins into LiveCode and they're not being detected. Any suggestions? I've tried placing them in the native LiveCode/Plugins folder as well as My Documents/My LiveCode/Plugins, but neither has worked. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hey Josh,
This works for me on Windows 8: I believe that the "AppData" part of the path is actually a hidden folder, so you may have to setup windows to accommodate as required.

Regards,
Doc

You can put plugins anywhere and then tell LiveCode where to find them. Create a folder named "Plugins" and put the plugins into it. Create another folder named "My Livecode" (or anything you want) and put the Plugins folder into that.

Then in LiveCode Preferences -> Files & Memory, point the User Extensions path to the folder that contains all your extensions. In the above example, that would be the "My Livecode" folder. Restart LiveCode and it should work.

I keep my LiveCode extensions folder on Google Drive and point every copy of LiveCode I use to that. That means no matter which computer I'm on, my plugins are always in synch and the latest versions. They're also backed up to the cloud automatically.

Thanks guys. That advice worked for the Scriptor's Scrapbook. Unfortunately, it has not worked for the animation engine which Livecode isn't even recognizing as a stack file when I try to open it directly. I've tried redownloading, but no success. Any ideas for that?

Are you running an older version of LiveCode? It sounds like AE has been saved in the new file format and your copy of LiveCode can't read it.

For whatever reason, I grabbed the old copy off an old machine and it worked. No idea why, but I won't look a gift horse in the mouth. Thanks for the attempt (and the previous advice!).