Viewing logs of a packaged plugin

[ross6kites]

Hello,

Assuming I’ve added console.log statements, where can I view the output when the plugin is installed locally, via the .ccx file?

[simonhenke]

You can’t.

@kerrishotts

Installed plugins cannot be debugged (this would be a pretty big security issue).

Your best case here is to add copious amounts of logging to help guide you to the issue. Log any errors you might be catching, and then feel free to drop them here in case anyone has ideas.

I’m not familiar w/ your workflow or what hte plugin does, but you might double check that your installed plugin isn’t trying to use a persistent token created while you were using the developer version. The storage locations for installed and developer plugins are different, which means they don’t have the same persistent token access.

[ross6kites]

@simonhenke I read this post prior to posting and she makes it sound like it’s possible to view logs, just not debug.

Your best case here is to add copious amounts of logging to help guide you to the issue. Log any errors you might be catching, and then feel free to drop them here in case anyone has ideas.

[simonhenke]

Ah sorry, I misread it then. But I also thought that logging is (just as debugging) tied to the debug panel - at least I don’t know of any other way to read the console logs of an installed plugin.

You could of course write your own log function (which writes to files for example).

[Lars]

Hi @ross6kites,
on a Mac you can read the logs in your library logs path:
/Users/<USER>/Library/Logs/Adobe/<Adobe_Photoshop_Version>/UXPLogs_<Date_Time>.log
I’m sure there’s also a log file on Windows.

Cheers

[vj_msu]

@Lars

I’m sure there’s also a log file on Windows.

The windows location for this logs is:
%APPDATA%\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop <Adobe_Photoshop_Version>\Logs