"Not valid 64 bit AAX plug-ins" - almost all 3rd party plugins suddenly corrupt

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by The Weed

If you have a lot - and I mean a lot - of plug-ins, it does sometimes take 2 or 3 starts of Pro Tools for it to initially scan all the plug-ins.

Might be time to get serious about making images or clones to get back to a working system when you run into trouble.

I remember that with PT10 but didn't it go away since PT11?

[anackman]

hate to dig this one up from archives, but this is a continuing issue.

I just purchased a brand new plugin and Pro Tools says on the opening splash screen that it cannot load this plugin because it's not a properly formatted 64-bit aax. Not true. It totally is. On another board, some folks said trashing prefs fixed this issue, well after doing that, now my Slate plugins are coming up with the exact same "failed to load the following plugins...64-bit" issue.

It's nuts. Why is this happening. Never had an issue with Slate and I never even got a chance to try the new plugin. I've seen this error around different Pro Tools boards, but no one has a reliable solid fix for it.

Some said it's a High Sierra issue on Mac, but I'm running Mojave.

screen shot of error:

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by anackman

hate to dig this one up from archives, but this is a continuing issue.

I just purchased a brand new plugin and Pro Tools says on the opening splash screen that it cannot load this plugin because it's not a properly formatted 64-bit aax. Not true. It totally is. On another board, some folks said trashing prefs fixed this issue, well after doing that, now my Slate plugins are coming up with the exact same "failed to load the following plugins...64-bit" issue.

It's nuts. Why is this happening. Never had an issue with Slate and I never even got a chance to try the new plugin. I've seen this error around different Pro Tools boards, but no one has a reliable solid fix for it.

Some said it's a High Sierra issue on Mac, but I'm running Mojave.

screen shot of error:

Mojave is pretty strict about the 64 bit issue. Actually started with High Sierra although it wasn't as bad there. Don't blame Apple or Avid for this - it's on the plugin developers as they knew about Apple going strict 64 bit. Some developers are just plain sloppy about keeping to Apple specs.

[Benoni]

I haven't had this issue in awhile, but usually the first step is Trash Prefs.

The issue may happen again when you launch PT for the first time, that's fine, let it load and DON'T move the plugins to the unused folder.

Close down PT, then open again. And it usually works.

If not, try updating the iLok Manager. Try updating Gobbler (assuming Slate still uses that), and update your plugins.