Heads up/ Reminder re Run-As-Admin plugs

If you open a plug which warns you that you aren't allowed to save settings unless you close it and run it as Admin, and you don't do that, then lay down several sterling audio tracks, and hit save, with the plug still open, it can hose the Sonar instance, and lose your hard work.
 
Mmmhmm, yep, I did.
 
:-)

I log in as admin, I know, but years of  IT conditioned me, and there's a lot more to sweat as root on a Unix box supporting $5 bill in financed commercial aircraft than just a PC, and I've never broken anything yet, but I do tend to forget that the Gates Dynasty knows ever so much more than me and saves me from myself everytime I think logging in as Admin means I actually have administrative authority over one of Bill's computers.
 
Ima set ip 'Run as Admin across the LAN, forthwith, thx for the reminder!

I have always wondered, do you have to run as administrator if your user ID has admin privileges? I thought that if your userid had admin privileges, you were good to go.  I only have my userid, apart from the default administrator, as the default login ID and it has admin privileges.

This thread is a good argument on why you should NOT store your plug-ins in system folders such as C:\Program Files. 
 
I never run Sonar as Admin (except to activate it), haven't turned off the UAC on my PC and I very rarely run into these issues because I don't store my plug-ins in system folders such as C:\Program Files. 
 
I instead I store them in a folder created in another location (in my case F:\audio plug-ins).
Easy to backup, easy to restore and easy to organize.

This not only makes sharing your plug-ins between different DAWs much easier it also makes it easy to avoid having duplicate plug-ins show in your Sonar menu listings. 
 
For Sonar 64 bit my scan path includes (just listing the sub folders for brevity):
* 32 bit
* 64 bit
* x64 demos 
 
For Sonar 32 bit my scan path includes (just listing the sub folders for brevity):
* 32 bit
* 32 bit (has 64 bit version)
* Kore incompatible 
 
and for other DAWs I list whatever paths are appropriate.
 
...Steven
 

This thread is a good argument on why you should NOT store your plug-ins in in system folders such as C:\Program Files. 
 
OK one of these days I'm going to do a plugin reorg as you've suggested...
I will probably still run sonar as admin but this is a very good tip thanks Steven... 
 
UPDATE - In fact I'm reorganising my plugins right now as suggested - cheers...
 

kill -r now