Empty (Orphaned) Layout Items - And how to remove them

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I had a problem with layout items beeing empty or orphaned after uninstalling plugins or changing the application layout. ( Unfortunately i could not pin point when it happened exactly. )

The issue might have been adressed in the latests pre-release at the time of writing ( v1.8.1).

I installed the latest patch, but things would still look like in the image below.

joplin_orphaned_layout_items
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If someone encounters this, you be able to remove those empty layout items by doing the following:

  1. Open your joplin settings.json
    • Joplin -> Menu- > Help -> Open profile directory
    • Open settings.json in your text editor of choice
  2. Search for "ui.layout": {
  3. In "ui.layout" remove brackets + content that look exactly like this:
{
    "visible": true
}

I haven´t noticed any side effects, or plugins that break, so you might be fine.

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