Say I want to permanently remove a plug from my system but I suspect it's been used once or twice in in my eleventy-nine projects. Is there a way to locate which projects use a specific plug without opening all eleventy-nine and examine the browser?
 

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Guitarhacker


X1 will still open all the projects just fine, it will give you a notice that the project has a missing plug in. Simply delete it and save that project....  

Herb, that I knew. But that is not the issue. If I knew, before I delete the plugin, where it's used I could open the project and replicate the FX/VSTi and remove the plug from the project. If the plugin was simply gone from my system, when I open the project I would have no idea what I had done with settings wise.

No, there is no way to do that. You would have to open, as you stated: "eleventy-nine" projects. What is eleventy-nine anyways? Is it 119?

Eleventy-nine is three or seven less than the number of plug-ins bapsi has on that system.

Don't do it bapsi.... just buy some more.

bapu


Say I want to permanently remove a plug from my system but I suspect it's been used once or twice in in my eleventy-nine projects. Is there a way to locate which projects use a specific plug without opening all eleventy-nine and examine the browser?

I do this with a shareware utility called Replace Studio Pro which can search within any file (and optionally replace text although you wouldn't want to do that in this case).
I set the file mask to *.cwp and point it at the root of my Cakewalk Projects folder. You need to click the 'search subfolders' button highlighted in image)
Enter as the search string the name of the plugin but leave the replace field blank - VERY IMPORTANT!
The output is messy but it highlights each file name and it beats opening every project.
You may need to be creative with the search string, for example, some plugs show in truncated 8.3 filename format e.g. Arppe2600va shows up in the CWP file as ARPPE2~1.

I'm gonna make a feature request just now.

While you're at it put in a request also for a feature that tells you what plug you "should have" used instead iffn you hadn't been a nitwit.  I'd get a lot of use out of that.

yorolpal


While you're at it put in a request also for a feature that tells you what plug you "should have" used instead iffn you hadn't been a nitwit.  I'd get a lot of use out of that.

Are you gonna pay for the now ruined keyboard (whew! I had a spare) from the mouthful of water I just sprayed all over it from LMAO at your remark???? Huh????

Luteman

bapu


Say I want to permanently remove a plug from my system but I suspect it's been used once or twice in in my eleventy-nine projects. Is there a way to locate which projects use a specific plug without opening all eleventy-nine and examine the browser?

I do this with a shareware utility called Replace Studio Pro which can search within any file (and optionally replace text although you wouldn't want to do that in this case).
I set the file mask to *.cwp and point it at the root of my Cakewalk Projects folder. You need to click the 'search subfolders' button highlighted in image)
Enter as the search string the name of the plugin but leave the replace field blank - VERY IMPORTANT!
The output is messy but it highlights each file name and it beats opening every project.
You may need to be creative with the search string, for example, some plugs show in truncated 8.3 filename format e.g. Arppe2600va shows up in the CWP file as ARPPE2~1.

that's cool.  thanks for the tip

Wow, that is a super cool little tool.

Thanks!

Luteman

bapu


Say I want to permanently remove a plug from my system but I suspect it's been used once or twice in in my eleventy-nine projects. Is there a way to locate which projects use a specific plug without opening all eleventy-nine and examine the browser?

I do this with a shareware utility called Replace Studio Pro which can search within any file (and optionally replace text although you wouldn't want to do that in this case).
I set the file mask to *.cwp and point it at the root of my Cakewalk Projects folder. You need to click the 'search subfolders' button highlighted in image)
Enter as the search string the name of the plugin but leave the replace field blank - VERY IMPORTANT!
The output is messy but it highlights each file name and it beats opening every project.
You may need to be creative with the search string, for example, some plugs show in truncated 8.3 filename format e.g. Arppe2600va shows up in the CWP file as ARPPE2~1.

X1 will still open all the projects just fine, it will give you a notice that the project has a missing plug in. Simply delete it and save that project....