I keep getting the error “VCS plugin perforce is enabled but not connected”
and
“check out this asset in order to make changes”.
It’s never happened before until today.
tried to fix by moving out of google drive (yes I know it was stupid to put the project there in the first place)
tried to fix by uninstalling and reinstalling unity (didn’t work)
tried to fix by disabling perforce, couldn’t figure out how
I can’t access the “Perforce Settings” in the edit menu, and I don’t even remember installing perforce in the first place. I’ve been able to use Unity just fine with the collaborator features, and Perforce never gave me a problem until now.
Sorry for posting here instead of Answers – that part of the site seems to be broken.
Perforce integration is enabled under the Edit->Project Settings->Editor menu. You should be able to disable it there. Reinstalling Unity shouldn’t do anything as its a setting within the project and not global to the editor. If you got the copy of the project from someone who uses Perforce, that would explain why it is enabled.
Also check that all your files don’t have the read only attribute set, which you need to check outside of Unity in something like Windows Explorer. Last time I used Perforce in a project it would set all files within the entire project as read only in the file system until they are explicitly checked out. If that’s the case you’ll have to clear the read only attribute on everything before Unity will let you modify those files.
Thank you for such a quick and kind answer! That makes quite a bit of sense for at least one of my projects, and I was able to turn it off with the simple tutorial project I have. I’ll figure out how to check things out in Perforce for the project where I’m collaborating.