No. It sounds like you did it correctly, so that is good.

Without being able to see what you have ended up, it is a little tricky to diagnose.

When you browse for a plugin folder the selected folder needs to contain at least one plugin, identifiable as a Python file (.py or .pyc) with the prefix "ez_".

It won't find plugins contained within a zipfile.
It won't find plugins contained within subfolders of the selected folder.

Multiple plugin folder locations can be saved on the Preferences tab, for easy access.

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