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2 - if i move only the plug-in folder of 2.8.3 (plus a lot of requested .dll) into 2.8.2 replacing those available there (and saved somewhere else) , everything is there
Hem when i wrote that was only 1 dll to fix, i did a bit of confusion :
the difference was 1 dll FOR MY VERSION (GIMP_PC_Lab ) and should be the same for who use Partha builds (or even that from Samj) but it is long i don't use the more diffused semi-official Windows builds from Gimp_win (that more or less suggested by
http://www.gimp.org ) in that case maybe are more DLL
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"3 - if i simply replace into the 2.8.2 plug-in folder the set of 13 plug-ins included in the .zip mentioned above, the functions will disappear (i.e. there is no more "lighting..." nor "map..." in the respective menus); why could it be possible?
I may only try a guess :
you didn't remove the plugin to replace and or Windows automatically prevented you to overwrite and automatically renamed the new plugin files , or more simply was some slight difference in some plugin file name so the original plugins remained there
But for gimp is not relevant the plugin FILE name but only the name embedded in the plugin codes
..and GIMP badly support clones, if are clones of same plugin or script BOTH clones may not work ...and not even show up in the menu
Anyway seems you already solved with 2 so why to bother about 3 ?