Plug-in not showing up

[jack63ss]

UPDATE: So I have GIMP 3.0.0 and 2.10.38 installed on my system. After having the below issue with 3.0 I tried 2.1 and it worked fine. So this seems to be a 3.0 issue.
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I installed gimp3_upscale but when I restarted Gimp the plug-in did not show where the Git instructions said it should. My preferences show C:\Users\jack6\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\3.0\plug-ins AND C:\Users\jack6\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\3.0\plug-ins as plug-in directories. (Why 2 locations I am not sure, so I put the script directory in both.)  See screenshot.
 
It is supposed to show up under Filters>Enhance but it does not. This is the first plug-in I have loaded manually, so am I missing something ? 

GIT instructions simply say:
[*]1 Download the latest release:gimp3_upscale.zip

[*]for GIMP 3.0
2 Extract the plug-in folder into your GIMP plug-ins directory.
[*]3 Restart GIMP.

To use it 
[*]1 Open an image in GIMP.
[*]2 Go to Filters > Enhance > AI Upscale..

but that entry is not there.
Suggestions ?

NOTE: I just tried to use the Help > Plugin Browser and it does not find anything. Not sure if that helps. 
Thanks


GIMP 3.0.0
Windows 10

[MrsP-from-C]

Quote: C:\Users\jack6\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\3.0\plug-ins AND 
 C:\Users\jack6\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\3.0\plug-ins as plug-in directories.
(Why 2 locations I am not sure, so I put the script directory in both.)

Are they really the same?
Normally you have two: one is yours and one is GIMP's (GIMP's gets overridden on updates)
That's why you have two.

The plug-in does not show?
Have you put the complete unpacked folder into your plug-ins folder?
And ... don't put it in both folders, that won't work.

[rich2005]

A bit more on installation.

The top line in the screenshot .....AppData\Local\Programs\GIMP 3\..... is the place you installed Gimp. Leave that alone, it contains the default plugins that come with Gimp. Just a comment, it is a bit of a strange path.

User installed plugins go in that second location, the folder, C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\3.0\plug-ins

I have tried the plugin in a Windows VM (both 10 and 11) A big plugin 125 MB . Download the zip. Open it and put the whole gimp3_upscale folder in C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\3.0\plug-ins.  looks like this. The gimp3_upscale folder containing the plugin and a folder of dependencies.

   

It does register in Filters -> Enhance -> AI Upscale but in the Windows VM running it gives errors ending in not a GPU which could well be a VM issue.  The plugin does work in linux. (kubuntu 24.04 / Gimp 3.0.8)

[jack63ss]

So I decided to go back to the beginning. I uninstalled Gimp3 and removed any remnants that where hanging around. I then installed Gimp onto my D: drive. When it was done I check the plug-in locations and there were: 
C:\Users\jack6\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\3.0\plug-ins
D:\Users\jack6\AppData\Local\Programs\GIMP 3\lib\gimp\3.0\plug-ins

Then I looked at what is where :
C:\Users\jack6\AppData\Local\GIMP\3.0\    only has the Crash.log directory
C:\Users\jack6\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\3.0\   has a number of empty directories in it, including a plug-ins directory
D:\Users\jack6\AppData\Local\Programs\GIMP 3\   seems to be the installed directories location
D:\Users\jack6\AppData\Local\Programs\GIMP 3\lib\gimp\3.0\plug-ins\   has the default plug-ins in it

I assumed that C:\Users\jack6\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\3.0\plug-ins was the user directory so I put gimp3_upscale there. BUT I still did not see the AI upscale plugin. So I moved it to D:\Users\jack6\AppData\Local\Programs\GIMP 3\lib\gimp\3.0\plug-ins\ but it still didn't show up. 
(Note that my C:\Users\jack6\AppData\Local\GIMP\3.0\gimp3_upscale does not have a README file in it.) 

So I blew it all away and re-installed into D:\Program Files (x86). So the plug-in directories were:
C:\Users\jack6\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\3.0\plug-ins
D:\Program Files (x86)\GIMP 3\lib\gimp\3.0\plug-ins
Put the plug=in into C:\Users\jack6\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\3.0\plug-ins and it still did not work.

At this point I'm a little frustrated. I had done a lot of work using Gimp3 before I ran into the plug-in issue and switched to Gimp 2 to do the most of rest of it (since that plug-in worked). Now I need to use the plug-in on some files that are Gimp 3 xcf and that doesn't work. I understand the comparability issues but that doesn't help my problem. 

Had Enough.

[jack63ss]

SO I installed uninstalled Gimp 3.9 and installed Gimp 3.2. My plug-in now shows up. Guess I know what the problem was.