Library Menu Item not Showing on Mac

[Matthew McD]

I have been testing a Plug-in on Windows and it works great. My Mac tester says the Plug-in loads and shows as Enabled. The problem is the menu item is not showing up on the Mac. This is my first plug-in and I am wondering what I am missing since it works fine on Windows.

[johnrellis]

Are you sure your tester is correctly loading the plugin?  You might ask her/him to send a screenshot of the Plug-in Manager.

I haven't heard of these symptoms before, and I can't think of what might cause them.  You might post the contents of Info.lua here.

[Matthew McD]

Here is the info.lua

return {

  LrSdkVersion = 6.0,

  LrSdkMinimumVersion = 6.0, -- minimum SDK version required by this plug-in

  LrToolkitIdentifier = 'com.ableblue.lightroom.tags2flags',

  LrPluginName = LOC "$$$/Tags2Flags/PluginName=Tags to Flags Converter",

   LrInitPlugin = 'PluginInit.lua',

  -- Add the menu item to the Library menu.

   LrLibraryMenuItems = {

     {

     title = LOC "$$$/Tags2Flags/FileMenuItem=Convert Colors to F&lags",

     file = "Colors2Flags.lua",

  enabledWhen = "photosSelected",

  },

   },

  VERSION = { major=0, minor=3, revision=0, build=0, },

  LrPluginInfoUrl = 'http://www.github.com/MatthewMcD/Lightroom',

  LrPluginInfoProvider = 'PluginInfoProvider.lua',

}

[Matthew McD]

I have tried dropping the version and sdk version to 5, changing the title to remove the ampersand and removing the photosSelected line. None of that made a difference.

[johnrellis · Accepted solution]

Are you sure the tester is looking under the Library menu rather than the File menu? Many LR users forget that plugin commands could appear under the Library menu (and the Help menu for that matter!).

[johnrellis]

In the Plug-in Manager, that plugin path looks suspicious:

/Users/--'Downloads/tags2flags.lrdevplugin

Where is the --' coming from?  Try a very generic path with no special characters.

[Matthew McD]

the -- is an artifact of my removing his name from the screenshot.

[Matthew McD]

That was it! He was not looking at the Library menu. Thanks!

[johnrellis]

Very good. Looking at Info.lua reminded me of this gotcha.