This is really weird, I recently reinstalled reaper on my PC and I have been moving things on my hard drives, making space etc. I had a bunch of old VSTs in a folder that I moved to my new VST folder. I'm trying to organize my har drives better.
Anyway, somehow now when I try to startup my recently installed new version of reaper, Reaper is scanning all these random dlls, (microsoft redistributables?)! and treating them as VSTs. I get a popup boxes with crazy errors. basically it is scanning non VST files as VSTs. I am watching the startup of reaper now and it says scanning VSTs: but the files behind them are not VSTs! I think it is scanning every dll on my PC! Eventually it just crashes altogether. I have reinstalled reaper multiple times but it keeps doing this.
It sounds like Reaper is scanning your complete disk for suitable dll files. I'll guess that the path name in Reaper's Preferences is set to C:\ or similar.
What is your VST plug-ins top-level folder?
Close Reaper.
Find your reaper.ini file (in C:\Users\DarkStar\AppData\Roaming\REAPER here, that folder may be hidden)
Open it in a text editor.
Find the vstpath= line
Edit it to put for VST plug-ins folder; e.g. vstpath=C:\VST_64 Plugins
Save the change and start Reaper.
Also, moving some plug-ins may not be successful if they depend on other files, Registry entries etc. They will need installing / activating.
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It sounds like Reaper is scanning your complete disk for suitable dll files. I'll guess that the path name in Reaper's Preferences is set to C:\ or similar.
What is your VST plug-ins top-level folder?
Close Reaper.
Find your reaper.ini file (in C:\Users\DarkStar\AppData\Roaming\REAPER here, that folder may be hidden)
Open it in a text editor.
Find the vstpath= line
Edit it to put for VST plug-ins folder; e.g. vstpath=C:\VST_64 Plugins
Save the change and start Reaper.
Also, I just wanted to redo where I keep my VSTs because I have them in too many different places. The plan was to reinstall most of them again and have my file paths go to one main VST folder for simplicity sake.
Also, moving some plug-ins may not be successful if they depend on other files, Registry entries etc. They will need installing / activating.
I found the configuration settings file where you said one called "reaper-vstplugins" at the top of the file it says: "vst cache" - in that file there must be thousands of lines of VST dll listed. 8P scrolling through I can't find the "vstpath= line" anywhere. If I delete the reaper folder in my roaming files and reinstall reaper would this fix the issue? I feel like I need a clean wipe or something.
Hey there. I had the exact same Problem. did you find a solution for it? I had a friend (computernerd/expert) checking my Computer, doing all this Editor and .ini file stuff, still nothing seems to work out. I had to crush my System and rebuils everything... this is really a bummer and i wish to know why this happens a how to deal with it.
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Just to simplify and clarify here in case you guys with problems have been missing the elephant in the room.
If Reaper is scanning vast areas of your hard drive, the first place to check is in Reaper's Options/Preferences/Plugins/VST setting window to see if, in the list of places you told reaper to scan for plugins, you accidentally added something like " C:\ " which WILL make Reaper want to scan every single file on your OS drive and attempt to load a mountain of .dll files that are NOT audio plugins.
Obviously there are other places besides the simple C:\ that are not good to scan, so think carefully about what you have showing in that list. FWIW I swipe and copy MY list and print it to a file in notepad (Windows of course) to be sure I havent overlooked a misplaced letter or punctuation.
Worth checking.
If Reaper is scanning vast areas of your hard drive, the first place to check is in Reaper's Options/Preferences/Plugins/VST setting window to see if...
That is an oustanding idea but they can't do that until they dismiss the "error" dialog about 25000 times so they can actually get into reaper to make that change (or as above try to find the ini and remove the entry manually).
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Originally Posted by karbomusic
That is an oustanding idea but they can't do that until they dismiss the "error" dialog about 25000 times so they can actually get into reaper to make that change (or as above try to find the ini and remove the entry manually).
Not really. If he installs a portable first to see if it actually works OK before tweaking stuff he is far more likely to tweak the right thing!
OP Sorry if I didnt make it clear that I was thinking in terms of establishing the cause, not suggesting an easy fix.
Did you find the plugin ini file yet? Might be worth posting the text on here if you arent sure what to change to fix this.
P.S. BIG blush - Just noticed DS had already suggested all this.....
P.S. BIG blush - Just noticed DS had already suggested all this.....
Yea, I don't think the diagnosis is wrong, it is the inability to easily change the path (for someone not well versed in where it lives etc.) when you can't get that far in Reaper.
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