major help required

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I've got a major problem on my hands. I uninstalled and reinstalled Cool 2.1. Before I uninstalled, it asked me as usual if I wanted to keep all the presets and I clicked 'yes'. But after I reinstalled, it doesn't recognize any of the plugin information for my sessions. I refreshed the plugin list, but that didn't work. And since I use plugins for EQ and compression, it means that most of the sessions I've done with 2.1 are back to square one. Okay. Deep breath.

Question: where does that plugin information reside? I've got backups of the .ini files for the plugins. Is it possible to reinsert that plugin information into the Cool Edit reinstallation somehow?

If so, I'd love to know. If not, I think I've just lost hundreds of hours of work.
 
I can't answer the question on where the presets reside, but have you thought about doing a system restore if you are running WinXP ?
 
where does that plugin information reside?
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I would have thought all the plugin settings and volume etc would be in each session's project file.
 
Not running XP.

Here's the kind of error message I'm getting: "Track 2 FX: Cannot find DirectX/Ultrafunk fx/Equalizer."

It opens the rest of the session information okay, and it saved all the preset information like I wanted it to, but the plugin FX information is gone.

I was running all those plugins in multitrack in real time rather than make destructive edits on the tracks. So if I can't retrieve that plugin FX information, a *lot* of the information on the mixes is lost - all the EQ and compression settings.
 
The thing I don't understand about it is this: where was all that plugin FX information before I uninstalled? I thought it was in the session information. Obviously not. So where is it? On my hard drive somewhere presumably. But why doesn't the reinstall recognise it?
 
Here's the kind of error message I'm getting: "Track 2 FX: Cannot find DirectX/Ultrafunk fx/Equalizer."
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So is the plugin actually loading on the session. I've gotten that error before when certain plugins i used on sessions weren't installed on a windows reformat.

Are the plugins in the same directories as before.
 
Yeah, everything's where it's supposed to be. Except for my brain.

I figured it out. I'd hit 'Refresh FX' after I reinstalled, but there's another thing you have to click before that works - something like 'Load FX' or something. It disappears after you click on it. Now everything's working.

Phew. Phe-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-w.

Okay, so all that information must reside in the cool.ini file, right? That's the file that an uninstall leaves where it lives in the Windows folder so it can access it after you reinstall.

Let me now impress upon my brain the desperate need to backup that file oftener than once every couple of weeks...
 
I just took a look in the cool.ini file in the Windows folder. It doesn't look like it's got the information for plugin FX settings.

Okay, I *really* want the answer to this question. Where does that stuff live really?
 
Okay, I got an answer to the question. I think.

The information for plugin FX settings lives in the session info file. Which means if you want that stuff backed up, then back up your sessions.
 
Yes. What the different .ini files contain is *preset* information. Every time you create a preset in Cool's effects, it's stored in the .ini file. Every time you create a preset in a plugin FX, it's stored in its .ini file.

But those real-time settings in Multitrack, whether it's Cool or a plugin, are stored in the session information. Nice. Breathing easy again.
 
Yes. What the different .ini files contain is *preset* information. Every time you create a preset in Cool's effects, it's stored in the .ini file. Every time you create a preset in a plugin FX, it's stored in its .ini file.
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Good find

Nice. Breathing easy again.
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Hehe yeah i've had a moment or two like that in CEP :D
 
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