Hello,
Recently I opened Reaper and as a song was about to load, I got an error message about certain effects not available. I checked my FX browser and was disturbed to note a LOT of plugs were missing.
I've tried the little I know to do, such as clear cache/rescan, check paths, uninstall/reinstall and so on. I finally did get some plugs back but am still missing dozens. The VSTs/VSTIs and their .dll files show up in my VST folders that hold others that Reaper does see.
I've tinkered with it so long the past weeks (when life permitted) that I am lost in the maze now. I'm over my head. I know some uninstalls weren't complete and I have a lot of duplicate artifacts in my files.
My machine seems fine, Dell Win8.1. I opened each song file I have on Reaper and many of them displayed the "effect unavailable" error message while loading. I made a list of over 20 different plugs missing from those, and I'm sure there are many, many more no longer in my browser.
Besides that, every time I open Reaper, it scans Waves files. Why? I've tried putting files in different folders, but and really out of my comfort zone as far as computers go. More like The Twilight Zone for me, haha.
Anyone here willing to give a vintage guy some assistance?
Thank You!
Recently I opened Reaper and as a song was about to load, I got an error message about certain effects not available. I checked my FX browser and was disturbed to note a LOT of plugs were missing.
I've tried the little I know to do, such as clear cache/rescan, check paths, uninstall/reinstall and so on. I finally did get some plugs back but am still missing dozens. The VSTs/VSTIs and their .dll files show up in my VST folders that hold others that Reaper does see.
I've tinkered with it so long the past weeks (when life permitted) that I am lost in the maze now. I'm over my head. I know some uninstalls weren't complete and I have a lot of duplicate artifacts in my files.
My machine seems fine, Dell Win8.1. I opened each song file I have on Reaper and many of them displayed the "effect unavailable" error message while loading. I made a list of over 20 different plugs missing from those, and I'm sure there are many, many more no longer in my browser.
Besides that, every time I open Reaper, it scans Waves files. Why? I've tried putting files in different folders, but and really out of my comfort zone as far as computers go. More like The Twilight Zone for me, haha.
Anyone here willing to give a vintage guy some assistance?
Thank You!