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Plugin sync clears out leftover plugin directories

You'll notice
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Plugins

Leftover directories from removed plugins get swept to trash after a managed sync.

What

After a managed-plugin sync, any directory in the plugins folder that belongs to no known plugin and is not already recorded as stale is moved to the trash folder. This runs on both the no-changes and the changed sync paths, with no flag behind it.

Details
  • Each removal is gated on the sync guard's verify() check before anything is moved.
  • Removals are counted in a new plugins_sync_orphan_dir_trashed event.
Evidence

plugins_sync_orphan_dir_trashed

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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