All Plugin alliance licenses wreak havoc at first launch

[atticmike]

Is this an Avid, Windows 11 or plugin alliance issue:

At first startup with Pro Tools, newly installed Plugin Alliance licenses pop up like a storm, all requiring individual activation. How can this be avoided?

A few years back, only one plugin used to pop up at Pro Tool's startup, which allowed you to activate it including all the others at once.

Now they pop up like flies all individually, infesting Pro Tool's startup, is this normal?

[junkgear]

This seems normal. Since the plug-ins didn't actually load successfully (no license), Pro Tools tries again the next time it launches. If these are separate plugins, and you don't plan on activating a license for them, you can just move them out of the plug-ins folder, so they aren't loaded each time PT starts. If they are all part of one plug-in file, then there isn't really anything you can do about it and it would have to be something that Plugin Alliance would have to address.

[btrbcomposer]

I get 115! requests, and I have actually deleted the plugin files, still comes up. Is this a registry issue?

[Darryl Ramm]

Originally Posted by btrbcomposer

I get 115! requests, and I have actually deleted the plugin files, still comes up. Is this a registry issue?

It's not a registry thing.

Are you seeing warnings about plugins uses in sessions that you are tyring to open or just the plugins warnings when you launch Pro Tools without a session.

Move the plugin files to the trash, empty the trash (or rm/del them using the command line).

Delete the plugin cache files. Which as a reminder changed in 2023.12 and later:

Mac: /Users/Shared/Pro Tools/AAXPlugInCache/*

Windows: C:\Users\Public\Pro Tools\AAXPlugInCache\*

remember to quote or escape the space in "Pro Tools" if doing this from the command line.

[Kyle Weir]

Hi,

Writing this in hope that maybe someone reads this before making the same mistake I did.

I had the same problem as OP... with a volt interface purchase I got a suite of software and downloaded them all, as advised. However, with Plugin Alliance - not saying they were more tricky than the others - but, with the others it was clear what you were getting for free. In the Plugin Alliance download manager/app, there is an option to 'select all' and I stupidly did that and it downloaded all of their software, with most of them being a 14-day trial only. I should have known given how long it took to download compared to the others. And in the end, you have over 200 plugins.

And there is also a noted glitch between Pro Tools and Plugin Alliance apparently. It asks you to activate each and every plug-in at start-up. Even when you tick the 'activate all' button. Even if you go through all of them and say you don't want the 14-day trial - they pop up again next time you load Pro Tools. Very annoying time-consuming mistake!

And you think you have solved it by uninstalling the plugins and clearing the cache, but no. But it appears I'm not the only fool to do it, as there are articles on their website how to deal with it. The solution in the end is that there are files and folders of the stuff in multiple locations and the articles point these out. Once you finally rid yourself of them, Pro Tools no longer finds them at start-up and you save yourself a lot of frustration and pain clicking dialogue boxes.

Hope this helps someone - only check 'my products' when downloading plugins from this download manager!