Lost All My Plugins During Upgrade and They Won't Activate

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Lost All My Plugins During Upgrade and They Won't Activate

Post by Wild Honey » Tue Feb 06, 2018 1:02 pm

Hi All,
I just upgraded from 2.1.1 to 2.2.1 and lost most plugins.
  • Downloaded plugins
  • Dragged them to Audacity folder
  • When to 'Effect/Add-Remove-Effect, selected 'all,' clicked "enable" and "ok" but they're still not there.
  • Did so as admin.
  • Restarted program, nothing.
Plugins are in the Audacity folder along with those that are enabled (see screenshot)

See screenshot of what's in the folder, but not actually in Audacity when I go to 'Effects.'
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Any suggestions?
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Re: Lost All My Plugins During Upgrade and They Won't Activa

Post by steve » Tue Feb 06, 2018 4:14 pm

Wild Honey wrote:Dragged them to Audacity folder
There are different ways to install depending on the type of plug-in. For Nyquist plug-ins (files have a ".ny" file name extension), the plug-ins should be put in the "Plug-Ins" folder where your current version of Audacity is installed.

VST plug-ins should be installed according to the plug-in's installation instructions.
Wild Honey wrote:When to 'Effect/Add-Remove-Effect, selected 'all,' clicked "enable" and "ok" but they're still not there.
If you click on the "Enabled" option at the top of the Plug-in manager, do you see them listed as enabled?

If you need further help, please tell us exactly what the plug-ins are (or at least some of them).
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Re: Lost All My Plugins During Upgrade and They Won't Activa

Post by Wild Honey » Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:34 pm

Hi, thanks for your reply.

No, that's the thing. The plugins are all in the correct folder but when I go to the "effects" within Audacity, it asks me to enable plugins, then there is a list of plugins, but some of the ones I have in the Audacity folder are not listed in that list at all. For example the Butterfly plugin. Even though the plugin is in the folder.

I can't figure it out.
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