I've tried reinstalling the plugin 3 times now. I upload the CS file to the oxide plugins folder like everything else, I can force oxide to reload it, but it is not creating or recognizing a json file.  Any suggestions?

And here is all it says when I reload it through oxide:

oxide.reload VehicleDecayProtection

Unloaded plugin Vehicle Decay Protection v1.3.3 by WhiteThunder

Loaded plugin Vehicle Decay Protection v1.3.3 by WhiteThunder

Not sure what could cause this, other than Oxide itself. I literally copy and paste the same config loading code between all of my plugins so if this plugin is affected, the others should be as well. Could you try installing one of my other plugins (one that has config) to see if the config file is created for that one? If it is not, could you try the same for some other plugins? If some work, and not others, I can look at the config loading code to get an idea where the issue might be.

Also, from the thread title, I infer that you have used the plugin successfully before. If so, why was the config file removed? Was that because you deleted it when reinstalling? If so, what was the original symptom you experienced that caused you to reinstall the plugin?

I got it working now. Oxide was fucky with the update, I had to reinstall oxide twice to get it to take on my server, then I reinstalled all my plugins. Had this and another that were not taking. I removed the CS file, hard stopped the server, re uploaded the CS file, and it took. Not sure wtf was going on.