Solved Question regarding Waves Central

Thanks Grem. I downloaded the legacy waves central for version 9 but its an offline installer. I'm trying to install all my waves plugins both 9 and 10 versions so this pc has no previous install. The offline installer askes to point to a folder which I believe it's looking for the v9 plugins which are not there. I don't know if it's possible now to install my V9 plugins. If they expect me to WUP all my v9's which is most of my waves plugins they can go you know what. I appreciate your help and any further help you can give.
Thanks

BD is Da Man!!

Not sure why your getting the error message, but it's worth a try to see if Waves Support will respond.
 
I know that sometimes you have to do a manual uninstall of Waves stuff before installing again. Have you tried to clear out all the old Waves stuff?
 
Look on the Waves knowledge page and search for uninstall. If you can't find them let me know. I'm off to bed. Nite!!

Mosvalve

Grem
 
I know that sometimes you have to do a manual uninstall of Waves stuff before installing again. Have you tried to clear out all the old Waves stuff?
 

That's the thing this is a brand new pc I bought a few days ago and am installing everything for the first time. Strange. I guess I have to see if I get lucky and hear back from support. I read a thread in the Sonar where it cost someone $200 for support meaning he had to WUP all his plugins to be able to use them. If Waves really pulled something like this on us where they are forcing us to WUP then They are dead to me. I will not invest anymore in companies who do this kind of thing and hold the products we buy for ransom. I have outboard eq's, compressors etc. that I use like plugins that I've been relying on more and more anyway so I'm not going to be hustled. 
 
I appreciate everyone's help. Thank you

I find that Waves support in situations like this, work better over the phone, even though you might have a little wait time.
When waves central 10 first came out last week, I wasn't sure about what prompt to select, glad I called because the tech had to go through the steps and find out which was correct, meaning it was an obvious unclear step. I think a lot of people got their plugs screwed up through that particular process, but the good news is, he did tell me that if it got screwed up, that it could be fixed, it would just be a longer more tedious offline install correction.

If I can get all of my V9 plugins in version V10 after paying for WUP, what would the purpose be to keep V9?
I can see why someone would delay V10 if they don't want to dish out the money right now.
 
If you already payed though I guess I'm missing the advantage of keeping both.

Glad every thing got squared away.

Just FYI - I've been dealing with some of the same confusing issues between versions 9 & 10.  This helped me straighten things out and thought it might help - similar to above.
 
I came across this on the Samplitude forum - someone there received this procedure from the Waves techs:
 
Doing a Clean Install -
If you have IR convolution reverb impulse files, please back up the following folders:
•C:\Program Files (x86)\Waves\Data\IR1Impulses
•C:\Program Files (x86)\Waves\Data\IR1Impulses V2
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Waves\Data\Acoustics.net Impulses (if exists)

First, uninstall:
1.Launch Central.
2.Go to Install > Uninstall, checkmark both boxes and click Uninstall.
3.Go to Control Panel > Programs and Features and uninstall Central.
4.Go to C:\Program Files (x86) and delete the Waves folder.
5.Press [Win key]+R, type %AppData% and hit Enter.
6.In the 'Roaming' folder that shows, drag the Waves Audio folder to your desktop.
7.Press [Win key]+R, type %LocalAppData% and hit Enter. In the window that shows, delete the Waves Audio folder.
8.Press [Win key]+R, type %ProgramData% and hit Enter. In the window that shows, delete the Waves Audio folder.
9.Delete any WaveShell files you find in the following locations (if exist):
•C:\Program Files\VSTPlugins
•C:\Program Files\Common Files\Avid\Audio\Plug-ins
•C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3
•C:\Program Files (x86)\VSTPlugins
•C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\ DigiDesign\DAE\Plug-Ins
•C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\VST3
•C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\WPAPI

Now to re-install:
1.Download the offline installer for Windows.
2.Transfer the offline installer to the offline computer.
3.Unzip the installer to your desktop, and install Waves Central.
4.Launch Waves Central and click Install Products.
5.On the left column, choose Select Offline Installer.
6.When prompted, highlight the Waves folder on your desktop and click Select folder/Open.
7.On the middle column, select the products you wish to install.
8.Click on the Install button.
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Glad it worked out for you Tim. Waves got some really good plugins for the money. Best bang for buck IMO. But the install (and uninstall if need be!) is really a PITA sometimes.
 
But the reason for all of that is the Waves System. That's the little box below the title bar of the plugin window. You can save all your presets for all their plugins in any location you want. One good reason for this is to back those presets up. Also if your a big name producer and travel to your gigs, then saving your presets to a USB key is no problem.
 
So with the Waves system you can keep a copy of WC, a complete offline install package of all your Waves plugins, all of your license, and all of you presets on one USB stick that you can take with you and install on any computer and be up and running in a few minutes.
 
Downside to that is all the BS you will leave on the computer you install it on!! : )
 
I would suggest to everyone with Waves plugins to copy the uninstall instructions in the post above and keep them in a safe place. Hopefully you never need them. But if you do, they are not readily available on the Waves support pages. I can never find them anyway.