Storing plugin data
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## Storing plugin data

If your plugin needs to create files and store data in the filesystem, you should use the `getPluginHome()` API of the `EditPlugin` class. To signal that you use the plugin home API you have to set the `plugin.`class name`.usePluginHome` property to `true`. Even if your plugin doesn't create any files, you should set the property to `true`, so that e. g. the plugin manager knows that there is actually no data in favor of not knowing if there is any data and thus displaying that it doesn't know the data size. See the documentation for the `EditPlugin` class for details.

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