Where are PT Plug ins 2023 on Mac?

[tomhartman]

PT 23.6.0.110

Seems like I have to look this up every year or so ..this time will write it down

Thanks

[CygnusX-1Bk2]

/Library/Application Support/Avid/Audio/Plug-Ins

[Bruce Paine]

Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Avid/Audio/Plug-Ins

Or whatever your Boot drive is named instead of Macintosh HD

I don't remember if Pro Tools installs the Alias in the Plug-ins folder for other plug-ins, but this is what my Plug-Ins folder looks like, which I keep in the Finder sidebar for easy access:
Macintosh HD/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins

Folder List:
AAX (alias)
AAX Unused (alias)
Components
HAL
LV2
MAS
Unused. (for AU)
VST
VST Unused
VST3
VST3 Unused

[tomhartman]

No luck nothing there...

[Bruce Paine]

Are you sure you are not looking in your "user name" Library? Click on your System drive icon and then on the Library there.
Easy mistake to make, I do it all the time.

Or if you did not install Pro Tools for all users, maybe it actually is in your username Library.

[tomhartman]

Clicked on Macintosh HD.

Held option clicked Library from the GO menu

Application Support

Avid

Only shows Avid Link (twice)
And Pro Tools/cache and Cookies.

Geez, can't Avid just make a "Go To Plug Ins" menu command? LOL

[dominicperry]

Without wishing to be rude, if you can't find these, perhaps you shouldn't be ferreting around in your OS folders.

Spotlight search won't show you these by default.
Use a program like Find Any File to do a search for "aaxplugin".

The path you've been given is correct.

Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Avid/Audio/Plug-Ins

Dominic

[Bruce Paine]

Yep, I was wrong about Spotlight finding it.

Did a find using Find Any File as Dominic suggested for AIRChorus.aaxplugin and it showed the correct path.

[tomhartman]

Originally Posted by Bruce Paine

Yep, I was wrong about Spotlight finding it.

Did a find using Find Any File as Dominic suggested for AIRChorus.aaxplugin and it showed the correct path.

Found them. My mistake was in clicking on the Mac HD and THEN holding option and clicking Library from the GO menu. I just needed to go straight to LIBRARY on Mac HD. Thanks all.

And yes putting an ALIAS in the FINDER lol

[JFreak]

Forget spotlight and open Terminal app from Utilities. Issue this command:

find / -iname '*aaxplugin'

... and eventually you see the folder where your aaxplugins are hiding.