DT script manager missing

Software
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so try starting darktable in a terminal with the command

"\Program Files\darktable\bin\darktable.exe" =d lua
```

The log will be in `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\InetCache\darktable\darktable.log`

Let's see what that says
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You are on master :smile:

23

You meant -d lua, I think. So
"\Program Files\darktable\bin\darktable.exe" -d lua

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Yep.

25

Yep :slight_smile:

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Thank you for the answer!
Yes, I noticed the “=” :slight_smile:
The response in darktable-log.txt is the following:

========================================
version: darktable 4.4.2
start: 2023:10:19 20:29:26

sqlite3 error: C:/msys64/home/bill/src/darktable-4.4.2/src/gui/presets.c:86, function dt_gui_presets_init(), query “DELETE FROM data.presets WHERE writeprotect = 1”: attempt to write a readonly database
sqlite3 error: C:/msys64/home/bill/src/darktable-4.4.2/src/libs/modulegroups.c:1352, function _preset_retrieve_old_presets(), query “DELETE FROM data.presets WHERE operation = ‘modulelist’ AND op_version = 1”: attempt to write a readonly database
48,1318 LUA ERROR : cannot open C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\darktable\luarc: No such file or directory

end: 2023:10:19 20:29:26

In my “C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\darktable\folder” however are only the two subfolders mentioned above, namely
C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\darktable\lua
C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\darktable\lua-scripts

and no “luarc” subfolder - never has been such a folder …

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luarc is a file, not a folder. The lua-scripts folder can go away. The lua folder is where the lua-scripts are installed to.

The luarc file should contain the line require "tools/script_manager"

From a terminal in %LOCALAPPDATA%\darktable type the command

echo require "tools/script_manager" > luarc

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Yes, your “echo …” command created the file, and now the script manager reappeared. Problem solved! Thank you!

The question here is, why the file disappeared in the first place. It must have been there before my script manager disappeared, and I did not erase it.
Now, thinking even further back in time, I remember having this problem a few times before, but restarting darktable resolved it, until this last time …

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Not related to Lua, but those

attempt to write a readonly database

log lines don’t look good. Is your DB read-only?

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Yes it is read-only, and I just turned the attribute off. Thank you for the notice!

I also noticed the following (also not related to lua): If I start darktable from the terminal (“cmd” in Windows), then a log entry is written to the “darktable-log.txt” file, but if I start darktable from Windows shortcut (in Start menu), containing the same command line, nothing is written to the log file …

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Thanks, Bill - git pull updated the script and now all is well again. Thank you.

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