Is it possible to have too many plugins?

[Stephen Bond]

Originally Posted by johnnyv

When trying to boot up, PT crashes as it gets near to the end of going through the plug-ins.

Anyone run into this before?

+1

Seen this for a long time. Just keep retrying! You'll notice the plugin being scanned will get further along the (alphabetical) list where the crash occurs. Keep trying and you'll finally get through.

My guess is some allocated resource to the task is too small, possible RAM? Either way, with a lot of plugins installed it can't do a fresh scan in one pass.

Stephen

[SDDP]

Originally Posted by johnnyv

Haha, yeah, W.T.F.? Um, given that the www didn't really get going until like 1996 or so, how the f*ck could the DUC be listing me as joining in 1969?

WTF?

Must have been an AAX Time-Warp plug-in?

[off the wall]

Originally Posted by johnnyv

Haha, yeah, W.T.F.? Um, given that the www didn't really get going until like 1996 or so, how the f*ck could the DUC be listing me as joining in 1969?

WTF?

Trailblazer!

[Stephen Bond]

Originally Posted by johnnyv

I've run the Pref Dumper, I've reinstalled PTHD fresh; I've installed the Driver fresh.

When trying to boot up, PT crashes as it gets near to the end of going through the plug-ins. I do notice that in my plug-ins folder, the latest thing I installed (Izotope RX7), those plugs are "greyed out". Could it be that I simply have too many plug-ins in my system? I do have a lot. Not a single krack. All legit.

Anyone run into this before?

Ran the PT pref trasher today and had the same issue.

The solution is to move all the plugins out of the Plug-Ins folder and start Pro Tools. Should start OK.

If so, quit PT, move a bunch of plugins, say 20 or 30 back into the folder and restart PT.

Repeat till you've moved them all back in!

Regards,
Stephen

[TimNielsen]

It IS a bug, and a known one. The solution, move about half of your plugins out of the plugins folder, and launch ProTools. Once it successfully launches, quit, drag the other half back in, and restart again. It has something to do with that first scan. I have LOTS of plugins, and Digi confirmed this was the solution. Once it's up and running, you're fine until you trash prefs and databases and all that again.

Very very annoying, and I've heard to no plans to fix.

But it absolutely IS related to the amount of plugins in your system!

[Bob Olhsson]

I just restart two or three times.

[K Roche]

Is it happening because of a large number of 3 rd party plugins ?
I ask because so with 2018.7 and my system below
I have not had any launching issues
But I only have Wave Platinum and a handful of other 3rd party plugs