VST BlahBlah; The VST Plug-in could not be found

[J4ckFl45h]

This message continues to meake me tear out my hair! Please add a dialog to search for the missing Plug-in as it's often there but not picked up by Live! This is especially true of projects loaded from 3rd parties who have their Plug-ins in a different location to me.
Sure, the Plugin can be loaded if it's available, but when you do load it manually, it adopts the default instrument/setting preset, not the one that was saved with the project!

[AAdel]

Well, it's easy.
Collect all your plugins in one folder and point Ableton Live to that place for looking.

[AAdel]

Be aware if you use Live cross platform between MAC and PC, because win doesn't find your used Audio Units (AU) plugins.

[J4ckFl45h]

Hi AAdel,
I have all my plug-ins in one location. I have Ableton Live pointing to that location. I repeat, on loading many third party projects, some plug-ins are not found, even though they exist in my one location! Hence my feature request for a missing plug-in search dialog.

[AAdel]

It can be useful.
You should ask this in the features wishlist.

[Stromkraft]

Hi AAdel,
I have all my plug-ins in one location. I have Ableton Live pointing to that location. I repeat, on loading many third party projects, some plug-ins are not found, even though they exist in my one location! Hence my feature request for a missing plug-in search dialog.

This request doesn't make sense technically for me. There are two possible main folders for VST plug-ins that you can use. Not unlimited.

If these plug-ins of yours can't be found it's more likely because they are not exactly the same plug-ins. So searching for them won't find them. It could be a number of differences.

Another alternative is that one of you have VSTs sorted in sub-folders while the other of you doesn't or uses a different folder structure.