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Reverted ST3 to Fresh Install, now what?

#1

Afer being frustrated most of the day trying to figure out why package control, plugins, etc… no longer worked after just purchasing the editor, I had to finally resort to a ‘fresh’ state as referenced here: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/revert.html and wanted to pass along what I found.

For reference I’m using Windows 10 64bit and as a Windows 10 user, I didn’t have a ‘data’ directory referenced in http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/revert.html Windows: %APPDATA%\Sublime Text 3

My directory structure is listed below. I’m a software engineer and had to think twice if ‘data’ directory meant everything under C:\Users\Brian\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3. Especially since I wouldn’t consider the python files ‘data’. I also saw references to Cache which I also had under C:\Users\Brian\AppData\Local\Sublime Text 3\ so was the correct procedure to remove everything under there?

  • C:\Users\Brian\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\
    • Backup
    • Installed Packages
    • Lib
    • Local
    • Packages
    • Settings

So, I took a chance and backed up everything under C:\Users\Brian\AppData\Sublime Text 3
All ‘appears’ working but of course I no longer have Package Control, Any of my plugins, etc. which is almost the same as just reinstalling everything new. The only saving grace is that I believe you can copy over your user settings from the backup.

I think correcting the documentation would save a lot of people time and frustration and a lot less forum posts.

When ST3 wasn’t working, Here is the output of the console upon load and you’ll notice the 6th line mentioning that it’s unable to open the Default Package Control.sublime-settings file which is correct in that it didn’t exist. It did exist in C:\Users\Brian\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\User\

You’ll also notice that there is no reference to the User directory upon startup. I’m not a python dev but just from the initialization, it doesn’t appear to look in that directory for the settings and it would probably be pretty simple to at least look in that directory and output something more meaningful to the user so maybe they don’t have to revert back to the beginning and start all over. I would assume that anyone who uses a real editor like Sublime Text or Visual Studio Code, etc… probably takes a lot of time fine tuning all their settings, packages, workflow, builds just so only to have it wasted.

Any finally 1 clarification that I still haven’t found as an absolute answer. Is it true that after you revert you have to reinstall package control and each and every plugin again? If so, I have quite a bit of work ahead of me.

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startup, version: 3143 windows x64 channel: stable
executable: /C/Program Files/Sublime Text 3/sublime_text.exe
working dir: /C/Program Files/Sublime Text 3
packages path: /C/Users/Brian/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Packages
Unable to open /C/Users/Brian/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Packages/Package Control/Package Control.sublime-settings
state path: /C/Users/Brian/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Local
zip path: /C/Program Files/Sublime Text 3/Packages
zip path: /C/Users/Brian/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages
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#2

that is the ST “data” folder, deleting/renaming that is what the docs are suggesting

yes there is, the User package is a direct subfolder of this:

no, just Package Control, which can be done from the Tools menu - if you copy your Package Control settings across, it will automatically reinstall all “missing” packages
https://packagecontrol.io/docs/syncing

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#3

As an experienced developer working with Windows I can open the command prompt (cmd.exe or powershell.exe) and enter the command cd %APPDATA%\Sublime Text 3

This will change the currend directory to C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3. Maybe worth mentioning - <username> is a placeholder for the logged on user.

So from this point of view, the documentation is absolutely accurate, I think!

But as such long path structures are too complicated for my little stupid mind, I use the portable setup of Sublime Text, which contains a Data folder right in its installation path, which is C:\Apps\Sublime in my case. Therefore a reference to a data folder is even more accurate in this case and easy to follow. All files are kept at this one place then.

… had to think twice if ‘data’ directory meant everything …

One could call it profile or what ever, but each developer knows that Windows names both the environment variable (%APPDATA%) and the folder (AppData) which contain all kind of user specific application information as data folder. Modern apps are even installed into that folder and others at least install plugin binaries there.

So I find the chosen name for the folder which holds all the user specific stuff not too bad or far-fetched. As an developer who knows the tools I am working with I quickly got familiar with the terminology used for certain functions/places/… .

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