Musescore 4.0 still shows plugin even after deleted (Solved!)
Musescore 4.0 still shows a plugin (Vital Audio) in the dropdown Sound/VST3 menu even after I deleted it and it isn't present in the VST3 folder. Is there any way to fix this? Thanks!
Do you still have an unanswered question? Please log in first to post your question.
Comments
Presumably restarting MuseScore would fix this?
In reply to Presumably restarting… by jeetee
No. I restarted it multiple times and even did a reboot. Still there.
In reply to No. I restarted it multiple… by Jose Oscar Marques
And is it still working as well?
If so, you probably didn't remove it as well as you thought you did.
In reply to And is it still working as… by jeetee
It doesn't work. Its folder is gone from the Program Files and the plugin file isn't anymore in the VST3 folder (the only one my MU4 looks into), so it shouldn't appear in the dropdown Sound menu, even if some residual information could be present somewhere in my system.
In reply to tIt doesn't work. Its folder… by Jose Oscar Marques
> "the VST3 folder (the only one my MU4 looks into),"
Would you mind listing which folder that is?
In reply to > "* the VST3 folder (the… by jeetee
Windows 10
C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3
In reply to Windows 10 C:\Pr0gram Files… by Jose Oscar Marques
A strange thing indeed. AFAIK on launch MuseScore indeed goes looking for VSTs, but I don't think it really caches them somewhere.
Something to further investigate for sure!
In reply to A strange thing indeed… by jeetee
I believe this or a similar problem has been reported:
https://musescore.org/en/node/339640
In reply to A strange thing indeed… by jeetee
.
In reply to I believe this or a similar… by Jose Oscar Marques
I fixed mine by removing the VST Folders & the VST3 References from the Musescore pack
Solved! Thanks to jeetee suggestion:
"On Windows I've located %LOCALAPPDATA%\MuseScore\MuseScore4\vst which seems to hold a json metadata file for each vst it found. Try removing the relevant json file from there and if that helps.
Perhaps we can then create an issue for MuseScore to clean up such a file if it no longer can find the file set in the "path" inside the json."
In reply to Solved! Thanks to jeetee… by Jose Oscar Marques
Guess it needs another update