Problem with vst scan on start-up

80rn7rue · Post by **80rn7rue** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:42 pm

Howdy,

When my ableton scans for vst plugins on startup it crashes is there any way i can reset the prefrences so it does not scan so i can at least get it running to find out wich vst is causing the problem ...................

I found a thread saying delete the prefrences file in the Doc&settings/ableton folder but i am unsure wich file to delete,

Any help greatly appriciated

Thx

justin · Post by **justin** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:01 pm

move the plugins manually to another folder

they should be either at root or user level, depending on where u installed them

macintosh hd or home // library/audio/plugins/vst

then restart live...

robotcowboy · Post by **robotcowboy** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:19 pm

... but what if you're a newb dumbass such as myself who retardly set his vst search folder to "C:\" after finishing the tutorials in Live 4.0.1 ....

For me in Win XP, Live crashes before I can get in and change it. Obviously, I can't move every plugin .dll from the C:\ drive easily. Reinstalling changes nothing as the settings are retained somewhere (I'm assuming the registery ?). I haven't found any obvious settings files, nor registery entries

... any help would be greatly appreciated so I can move out of FL Studio and into Live as I anticipate a much awaited switch to a MacBook Pro & OSX.

justin · Post by **justin** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:10 am

i dunno where live would stash its prefs on a pc...
forget about the registry - the file ur looking for is called preferences.cfg.
maybe search by name?

ur best bet is to ask ableton support, unless someone else who parlez microbotch?

and do ur self a favour, dont assign the whole c drive for plugins.

// i have answered this type of question so many times, someone should turn this topic "live crashes when it scans my vst plugins" into a permanent sticky... (apologies if this has already been done!)

j

robotcowboy · Post by **robotcowboy** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:40 pm

Success.

All the user preferences are in "C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Application Data\Ableton". I uninstalled Live, deleted this folder, and reinstalled.

I tried renaming just the Preferences.cfg file, but Live craps out with a serious error. (Was hoping it would recreate a default file or something.) I don't know the encoding for the data in the Preferences.cfg as its not ASCII, otherwise I would have just changed the folder that way

Everything is good now. Thanks.