VW26 says EncryptPlugin isn't a attribute of VS?!

[Jayme McColgan]

I know I'm pretty late to the VW26 game, but I'm trying to get all my plugins ready for release to my users. I'm still waiting for VW to get back to me with the verification file, but in the meantime, I'm just trying to encrypt my plugins... it won't let me. I'm using the same script I've used for the past 4 years. I also double checked it still works in VW24 (my current version)

 

I have downloaded the 2026 version of BatchEncryption.vwlibrary. 

 

Am I missing something? The new wiki on GitHub says that EncryptPlugin still exists. 

[Jayme McColgan]

even more confusion... I was reading through https://github.com/Vectorworks/developer-scripting/blob/main/Function Reference/Functions/EncryptPlugin.md

 

It says this, but that isn't an option I can see anywhere. 

Note: You need to install the Script Batch Process feature from the Vectorworks Developer section of Help → Install Partner Products... menu command. Or you can find the plugin within the SDK distribution.

 

[Jayme McColgan]

This is solved... the new unverified plugin window was disabling this, and I didn't notice. 

[Jesse Cogswell]

I was in the middle of writing out to check that.  Kind of ironic that the plug-in library featuring the new AddCredentials function is not verified...

 

Also, the Script Batch Process being in Install Partner Products is a complete lie, at least at the time of this post.

[AlHanson]

Piggybacking on this as I'm struggling with this process in 2026 as well.

 

•I've downloaded the current SDK for 2026 from https://www.vectorworks.net/en-US/support/custom/sdk/sdkdown

•I've copied the BatchEncryption.vwlibrary file into my plugins folder but when launching Vectorworks I get two separate errors: 

•The first is a system Security alert that tells me it can't open this file because it cannot be verified. 

•The second is from Vectorworks and it tells me that the BatchEncryption is not compatible with the current version

•Trying to run anything that uses EncryptPlugins will fail because this is not loading 

•I've tried going into the Privacy & Security System Settings and it does show the BatchEncryption.vwlibrary file as something that the system is preventing from loading, but clicking the Open Anyway button doesnt do anything (This is normally for application so I assume this behaviour is normal in this case)

 

Anybody else experiencing this and found the solution?

 

[Jesse Cogswell]

I recently bought a Mac strictly for plug-in testing purposes.  I was able to find a workaround for this annoying "feature".

 

In terminal, type:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine <path to .vwlibrary file>

 

For the path, I just did a click and drag of the BatchEncryption.vwlibrary file in Finder to the Terminal directly.

Edited Sunday at 04:24 PM by Jesse Cogswell

[AlHanson]

Amazing! That solved it. Thank you much!