{"id":663,"date":"2017-12-16T07:41:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T07:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/?p=663"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:11:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:11:39","slug":"failed-to-remove-a-plugin-from-intel-xdk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/failed-to-remove-a-plugin-from-intel-xdk\/","title":{"rendered":"Failed to remove a plugin from Intel XDK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest Intel XDK version 3987 I was not able to remove the third-party plugins from HTML5 + Cordova app.\u00a0Whenever I try to remove a plugin, it failed with the error message<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Uh oh! Path much be a string. Received undefined<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I found a workaround @\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/software.intel.com\/en-us\/forums\/intel-xdk\/topic\/733620\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/software.intel.com\/en-us\/forums\/intel-xdk\/topic\/733620<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since Intel XDK is no more into development phase, I think this is the only way\u00a0as long as this works.<\/p>\n<p>Steps are simple. Go to development tab and expand plugins folder there. Delete\u00a0the third-party plugin and all dependent plugins. Also, delete fetch.json. Then go to Projects tab and delete the plugin from there under Plugin Management. Finally restart XDK.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest Intel XDK version 3987 I was not able to remove the third-party plugins from HTML5 + Cordova app.\u00a0Whenever I try to remove a plugin, it failed with the error message Uh oh! Path much be a string. Received undefined I found a workaround @\u00a0https:\/\/software.intel.com\/en-us\/forums\/intel-xdk\/topic\/733620 Since Intel XDK is no more into development phase, I think this is the only way\u00a0as long as this works. Steps are simple. Go to development tab and expand plugins folder there. Delete\u00a0the third-party plugin and all dependent plugins. Also, delete fetch.json. Then go to Projects tab and delete the plugin from there under Plugin Management. Finally restart XDK. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","category-how-to","category-intel-xdk","category-plugin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}