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hey all,

After installing Live 11.1.5, my plugin scanning on my win 10 machine in ableton became very erratic.

1) When starting Live, it does it's automatic scanning as usual.
2) Except now, the interface is laggy and when going to the plugin section in prefs, there's a spinning ball next to "Rescan".
3) Nothing shows on notification bar, but interface is laggy until about 5-10 minutes after starting Ableton, when scanning finally shows on the taskbar.
4) Then it never finishes scanning. There's a message on the task bar that it's scanning plugins.
5) This stays in ableton as it never finishes scanning, this will stay on the live notifcation bar without changing for an entire session (I've never yet seen it finish).

So I trashed the preferences, deleted the live database file, and did a full rescan of plugins. While the initial scan finished, it's now behaving as above even with a fresh reset.

Win 10 - no machine changes, just the update of live to 11.1.5. I will have to revert but I hope Ableton is aware of this. This would be terrible if this bug starts carrying on to future versions.

Edit: other daws just fine, no issues.

There's been some changes with VST scanning on Windows. I think the idea was to revert back to a feature that used to work on Windows but was broken at some point... I don't know anything about how things work on Win so I encourage you to read the release notes

Thanks, Jur. yeah this doesn't make sense.

I left a session running for a few hours, to get past the ableton indexing, etc and it appears that plugins finally finished scanning. Then I restarted ableton Live, and ran into the same issues. It appears it happens with each start of Ableton.

1) Scanning took about 5 mins to even begin, then took about an additional 5 mins to finish. This is with no changes to the state of my machine. Prefs GUI for plugins is non responsive
2) Ableton itself is intermittently laggy.
3) This happens with no change to my plugins folder -- no changes to my machine.

Laggy = browsing plugin collections, flipping to samples, and back again. Spinning cursor, "Ableton Live.exe" is not responding.

I'll reach out to support and hopefully can help.

solar28 wrote: ↑

Sun May 29, 2022 11:49 pm

I'll reach out to support and hopefully can help.

That's what i was about to say

[jur] wrote: ↑

Sun May 29, 2022 11:58 pm

solar28 wrote: ↑

Sun May 29, 2022 11:49 pm

I'll reach out to support and hopefully can help.

That's what i was about to say

He he, exactly.