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How do I stop audacity from scanning plugins at startup?

It takes ages to start because it has to go through all of my powercore plugins can't seem to figure out how to stop it scanning the folders.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance

I don't think Audacity scans the whole machine looking for plugins. It always goes to the same places. I think if you create a folder outside of the Audacity application cloud and pull the extra plugins over to it, Audacity will not be able to find them. I don't think you can stop Audacity from loading every plugin it can find.

Then, there is always that little bell that's going off in my head. Do you really use five million plugins? Can you maybe move a couple of them out of the system? You may also get killed with five million plugins plus a Windows PC that hasn't been defragged for three years -- or ever.

Koz

kozikowski wrote:I don't think Audacity scans the whole machine looking for plugins. It always goes to the same places. I think if you create a folder outside of the Audacity application cloud and pull the extra plugins over to it, Audacity will not be able to find them. I don't think you can stop Audacity from loading every plugin it can find.

Then, there is always that little bell that's going off in my head. Do you really use five million plugins? Can you maybe move a couple of them out of the system? You may also get killed with five million plugins plus a Windows PC that hasn't been defragged for three years -- or ever.

Koz

I figured out it's not scanning vst plugins but au plugins (I'm using osx version btw) and I can't really move them because they need to be in the components folder. I deleted any demo plugins that were giving me errors it runs a little quicker although I'd rather it not scan my AU's, any way to disable this?