Clearing Plugin Cache in Jira 8

Question

I have instructions on how to clear the Jira plugin cache; which point to removing the contents of these two folders:

Delete JIRA_HOME/plugins/.bundled-plugins and JIRA_HOME/plugins/.osgi-plugins (just these two folders)

We are using Jira 8.5.1, and do not see this folder or any plugin folder; I saw in another post someone else ad an issue finding these folders in Jira 8; are they located elsewhere or under a different directory path?

Thank you!

Beth Starr_ozjkiw · Answer

Once you changed the directory to /var/atlassian/application-data/jira/plugins you will need to do ls - a to see the .bundled-plugins and .osgi-plugins.

Rodrigo Bozza_ck9sh2 · Answer

Make sure you are seeing hidden files.

In my case that was disabled for my tool and took me a while to find those folders within /var/atlassian/application-data/jira/plugins

Harry Rumble · Answer

Thank you @Sachin

We know where the home directory is on Jira, but cannot find these two folders at all. Are they named something else in Jira 8?

I see from one of the articles you posted above, there are plugins and caches folders, would these have the same content as mentioned in the previous folders?