Replace exisiting profile with packaged profile during install

[salimv]

I include several profiles as part of the plugin package and declare those in the profiles property of manifest.json. When someone uninstalls the plugin thru the store, those profiles are not removed. Preference would be to remove it, but if it does not, that is not a big issue. But when the plugin is re-installed, I see that a Copy version of each of these plugins is created. Is there a way to replace existing profiles with the ones from the install package?

[GeekyEggo]

Hey @salimv, at the moment the Stream Deck API doesn't provide an interface for replacing profiles; this is intentional to ensure that any changes made to the profile, by the user, aren't lost. Understandably, for pre-defined profiles that are read-only, this limitation does not make sense and is potentially something we could look into in the future.

[salimv]

Thank you for the response. Is there any suggested workaround to delete readonly pre-installed profiles thru a script during install? I am new and not sure if there is any such hook offered. At the moment, the users of our plugin have the responsibility to delete pre-installed readonly profiles before re-installing the plugin to not create duplicates, and we are looking for ways for them to not have to do this. A workaround until a cleaner approach is develop is acceptable, but we are not sure if there is any workaround possible.