Sonar VST Plugin Manager/Scanner - not registering ALL plugins - missing info

2 things - Sonar VST Manager
 
1- Changes in the VST Manager/Scanner since around the Foxtrot update has started to loose various 32bit plugins to start, All my IK-Multimedia product disappeared, including Sampletank, Miroslav Orchestra, Moog, Tron,  Sonic Synth, Fender, & others (All standalone's work) and last month cakewalk's x64 Pentagon I. I tried the - re-install fails setting on scanner etc. and the missing plugins names run by in the scan mode without showing any problems, such as licensing etc, I tried reinstalling one of the plugins, just in case, and it made no difference. These were used in many recording and I'm unable to load them. At this time I'm considering rolling back to a point where they worked and the rest of the subscription is a waste. Need a fix on the Plug-in manager. or able to uninstall new version and install older one? I need these programs recognized again.
 
2- It cuts off the display names: ie -  NI product Kontakt5 & Reactor5 various outs ( x32, x64, 8-out, 16-out, FX) calling them all the same; 5 entries for Reactor5 etc. I change them in plugin manager using 'friendly name' but the next time U run the scanner it reverts them all back. I turned off the auto run, but any time U add a new plugin U have to do the  'friendly names' all over again. Very annoying. FIX THIS.
 
WiLLi & MMX3PT
Sonar Platinum - owner
 

I have the same issue, again with IKM plugs. They work fine as standalone, the .dll s are present in the appropriate VST folder, but Sonar just doesn't see them. They don't reappear after a scan with any/all of the options selected. They are not Excluded and they are not wrongly classified as Effects rather than Instruments. I don't have either of the VST 3 Migration options selected. Even the full Reset available in Preferences - VST settings doesn't bring them back (nor does it throw up any error messages during the reset scan. Anybody know where they have gone, or more pertinently how to get the scan to see them?
 
This is 64-bit Splat (latest town) and the plugs happen to be 32-bit, but plenty of other 32-bit plugs are showing up normally.

Suddenly some of my Cakewalk VST's are not showing up properly, and are in excluded. This seems to have just happened, so I thought it was Windows 10 update or the Lexington that "wreaked the havoc".  I was trying to get Melodyne Editor 2 to show up as a VST3 and noticed Boost 11, and 3-4 others in excluded.
 
Michael

Meaning they've been "demoted"? and are now incorporated there?
Michael

pentimentosound
Meaning they've been "demoted"? and are now incorporated there?

No, the excluded dlls are in the PC path not in the dlls in the user VST path. This has nothing to do making old IKM plug-ins available.

The excluded items are part of the Style Dials. They act like a wrapper, I believe.
All the best.

Reset and rescan seems to have taken care of both my laptop and desktop.
Good luck to whoever's still not got it sorted!
 
Michael