Removing old plugins from Logic.

[John Isige]

Hi all.

Is there a way to remove old plugins from Logic without resetting and rescanning everything? I tried a plugin that doesn't work, Logic says the component is damaged and won't open. SO I deleted it from /library/audio/plugins/components. But it's still in Logic, e.g. in the table in Plugin Manager. You can't delete it from there, at least not that I can see anyway.

I don't think it's hurting anything, I just don't see the point of having entries that don't refer to anything, if it doesn't exist then there shouldn't be a reference to it in the list of supposedly available plugins.

[Dave Leo Baker]

So I had some weird stuff hanging around from years back when I worked on some experimental projects with people. What I found was, I went to
/library/audio/plugins/
then looked in those folders, I had stuff in the VST and VST3 folders I didn’t know I had. I think sometimes when you do an install it puts them all there, each kind, if you will. It’s easy to do, I’ve found, so now I just go to the plugins folder by itself, then go into all the subfolders: components, vst and vst3. I think all we can use now with latest Logic is either component or vst3, not vst, but don’t quote me on that.

Overall having too many plugins is better than how things used to be for us, but you’re right, and especially if you’re doing what I just did, upgrade to a new mac that is silicon, not intel anymore. Until I did this, I never thought of the fact installers have probably installed a version as each of the 3, or at least 2 out of the 3 options. Before I had done like you and gone straight into the components folder because that’s what the Internet says, I hadn’t really dug around and seen those vst and vst3 places.

Hope this helps / cheers,

Dave

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[John Isige]

This one is just AU. I deleted it from the directory just fine, but it still shows up in Logic, even though there's nothing there. This didn't install, the DMG just has the components bundle and the instruments directory and a couple of PDFs. So I literally hand-copied the two into place, then deleted them when it wouldn't work. But it still exists in Logic's menus.

Good catch for everything else though, yeah, it's kind of a mess. Mac could really use a decent uninstaller of various things, not that Windows is any great shakes there either, half the time the uninstallers people provide leave a bunch of things laying around anyway.

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[TheOreoMonster]

Have you restarted Logic or the computer since deleting it? Did you copy the components to the system library or the user library? You can always try rescanning just that plug in to see if it updates Logic to see if that the plug in is no longer there as well.
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[TheOreoMonster]

Logic only uses AU or Audio Unit. It does not support VST or VST 3 directly. Plug ins will generally install all 3 formats, AU into the components folder, VST 2 into the VST folder and VST 3 into the VST 3 folder. You can read more on this here if interested.

 

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[John Isige]

Restarting the computer seems to have fixed it, thanks! I thought I did, I definitely restarted Logic, but I guess not. This will be helpful when i delete more things later.

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