Ideas for keeping our plugins and VI's up-to-date

[James Steele]

I'll add something else here. Toontrack's standalone apps like Superior Drummer 3, as an example, need to have the VST2 installed in order to run. Just found that out tonight. So going around deleting VST2s too carelessly can bite you. Luckily it was no big deal. I reinstalled the VST2 version and the standalone Superior Drummer 3 app runs just fine now.

[stubbsonic]

This is a good point. I just got a freebie plugin uninstaller, but I think I'll need to move cautiously with it.

[cuttime]

This is a good point. I just got a freebie plugin uninstaller, but I think I'll need to move cautiously with it.

If that's the one from Wide Blue Sound, that would be good advice, as I’ve had very mixed results with it. I don’t use it anymore. I'd rather chase down files with Find Any File.

[stubbsonic]

If that's the one from Wide Blue Sound, that would be good advice, as I’ve had very mixed results with it. I don’t use it anymore. I'd rather chase down files with Find Any File.

Yea. That's the one. They said they'd send a link. But I can ignore it.

I usually use Find Any File but one is always left to wonder if various system problems aren't cause by my foolishness.

[James Steele]

Just thought of this tonight. I would be great if PlugInfo added a column (the app might have to track this data itself) that showed the date/time a plugin was installed.

[stubbsonic]

That would be useful.

As an aside, when I download some PDFs or installers, Mac OS only shows the date that I downloaded it regardless of the creation date. Weird.

[bayswater]

If that's the one from Wide Blue Sound, that would be good advice, as I’ve had very mixed results with it. I don’t use it anymore. I'd rather chase down files with Find Any File.

Yea. That's the one. They said they'd send a link. But I can ignore it.

I usually use Find Any File but one is always left to wonder if various system problems aren't cause by my foolishness.

I got email from them about an update. The earlier version only worked with plugins that used an installer script, while the update deals with any plugins.

What was the problem you experienced? Would the update address it?

[cuttime]

If that's the one from Wide Blue Sound, that would be good advice, as I’ve had very mixed results with it. I don’t use it anymore. I'd rather chase down files with Find Any File.

Yea. That's the one. They said they'd send a link. But I can ignore it.

I usually use Find Any File but one is always left to wonder if various system problems aren't cause by my foolishness.

I got email from them about an update. The earlier version only worked with plugins that used an installer script, while the update deals with any plugins.

What was the problem you experienced? Would the update address it?

I don't know if the update addresses this, but the older version would not recognize all of my plugins. It also launched a background process that was a total mystery to me.

[bayswater]

I don't know if the update addresses this, but the older version would not recognize all of my plugins. It also launched a background process that was a total mystery to me.

I'd guess that mystery process was just the installation script being run in reverse as they claim. Plugins that were not installed by that process, perhaps simple drag and drop, would not be included, so my bet is the update does address it. But it isn't clear what it would do to safely uninstall those plugins other than just deleting them.