SideBarEnhancements Not Installing correctly, App folder Says ST 3 instead of 4

[muzzlemuzzle]

Hello, I have Sublime Text SideBarEnhancements installed via the Package Installer. But even after restarting Sublime, I’m not seeing any changes to the Sidebar Menu’s functionality. I also tried manually downloading the files from Git and placing that in the Packages DIR, but no luck.

After using Package Installer, I do see this file:
Installed Packages > SideBarEnhancements.sublime-package

And I checked Preferences to make sure I wasn’t ignored it somehow.

Any thoughts on what I can do to get this to work properly?
macOS, ST4, v4200.

I have Sublime Text 4, and before I had 3, and noticing from the Console that the Application support folder says ST 3.

Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages

^Is this causing any sort of issue

Thanks for your time and help!

[deathaxe]

When migrating from ST3 to ST4 old application support folder is re-used to ensure seemless migration. It is not causing such issues. When uncertain, you can simply rename it to Library/Application Support/Sublime Text/.

Maybe check ST’s console for any error messages, which may indicate why related plugin code is not loading.

[muzzlemuzzle]

Understood. Thank you for this info, it was quite confusing when seeing it and even Claude was doubtful it was the correct config.

For some reason, I had to manually install https://packagecontrol.io/installation

It simply did not appear when searching install under CMD+SHIFT+P.
But once I was able to install package control, everything that I then installed via it has worked.

Zero clue why Package Installer wasn’t available in the ST4 v4200 download that I had? Is it typical to need to install the package installer manually?

Needless to say I’m thankful to finally get this working.

[deathaxe]

For infos about that, just refer to the very first pinned post in this forum.

SublimeText 4 Install Package not showing the menu

Hi there! I’m using SublimeText v4 build 4152 (update 02/08/2023). I successfully installed the Package Control, but when I try to install a package SublimeText doesn’t show the command Package Control: Install Package (see figs) Here are the steps I tried: Open the Command Palette using shift+command+p (OS X) or by selecting Tools > Command Palette from the menu bar; Find and select the command Package Control: Install Package. No results Any suggestions? thanks! [56] [MODERATOR …

To manually install, correctly follow https://github.com/sublimehq/package_control?tab=readme-ov-file#installation

See also https://docs.sublimetext.io/guide/package-control/troubleshooting.html#package-control-not-working-on-macos

It’s a shame godlike LLMs don’t provide you such common widespread crucial information.

[muzzlemuzzle]

But why is the option to Install Package Install not avail in ST4?

One device: No, Another Device: it worked flawlessly.

[deathaxe]

The installer script relies on a single download URL from packagecontrol.io, which neither sublimehq nor community had access to. Additionally required keys to sign the binary seem to be lost. So any released ST wouldn’t accept any new binary. As a result the script still downloads old PC3.4.1 which fails loading on most modern OpenSSL3 only OSs and thus can’t even update itself.

A workaround might be to manually install openssl1.1.1 and properly adjust links so PC can load it.

This issue will be fixed with upcoming releases of Sublime Text.