Up until today, I hadn't installed the update to Z3TA following the comments of many members stating that existing projects wouldn't honour installed patches.
 
So.... today I installed it via the CCC following the advice given in the Lexington thread.
I have only installed it on my laptop as I use this as a test bed so if anything goes wrong, it's not catastrophic.
 
Opening up version 2.2.1, I am greeted with totally blank Presets. Nothing at all is available. Any ideas anyone?

Zeta+2 looks at "UserData Path" in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\z3ta+\2.0. Mine is set to "C:\Cakewalk Content\Z3TA+ 2." The path contains the following

Hi Steve.
 
Looking at the Registry entries, there doesn't appear to be anything referring to Program Data:
 
edit: image removed due to exposed credentials - sc

It is using the "UserData Path"
Yours is set the same as mine.
The path to the programs folder should be "C:\Cakewalk Content\Z3TA+ 2\Programs"
My programs folder has a lot of 3rd party stuff in it but yours should at least have the "Factory Content" folder and a couple of others. Here is what my program folder looks like:
 

 

Steve, whilst my Programs folder doesn't contain as much as yours, there are a few there, more or less what I was expecting, including Factory Content.
 
So  why isn't Z3TA seeing them?
 
I can open it up and choose "Load Program", navigate to the Programs folder and it loads any patch I choose.
 
The 3 boxes at the top read, from left to right:
 
Programs
Factory Content
---
 
 
The Programs dropdown shows the other packs but selecting them does nothing.
 
The box with --- does exactly nothing

I can make Z3ta+2 fail they way you are describing if the program folders are located in ""C:\Cakewalk Content\Z3TA+ 2\Programs\Programs"
 
IOW, having the programs one level too deep.

This is bizarre.
 
I've modified the registry key several times, as follows:
 
C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Z3TA+ 2
C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Z3TA+ 2\Programs
C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Z3TA+ 2\Programs\Programs
 
C:\Cakewalk Content
C:\Cakewalk Content\Z3TA+ 2
C:\Cakewalk Content\Z3TA+ 2\Programs
 
With exactly the same results each time
 
I've copied all of the program files so it *should* be finding them.
 
Glad I've not tried on my DAW!!

Is the the VST3 plug-in?
Have you verified the about screen shows version 2.2.1?
Does the stand alone fail the same way?
Are you using a custom menu layout?

Out of curiosity, if you try and manually load a program (you have to go through the Program menu and click Load .fxp, I believe) from one of those menus, does it load properly?

scook
It is using the "UserData Path"
Yours is set the same as mine.
The path to the programs folder should be "C:\Cakewalk Content\Z3TA+ 2\Programs"

 
Just a clarification, this path is the real path to the folder containing the programs, but in the "UserData Path" registry entry it's as you said above ; that is, there's no "\Programs" on the end.