Bugzilla – Bug 204
Some VST dll's cause Audacity to scan all dll's in Program Files (x86)
Last modified: 2019-05-13 10:11:32 UTC
Created attachment 33 [details] bs2b_vst.dll can cause Audacity to scan all of Program Files (x86) bs2b_vst.dll attached was added to 1.3.13 Plug-Ins folder on Windows 7 x64 and 1.3.13 asked to rescan for VST's (plugins.cfg was empty at this point).The scan was seen to be scanning all of Program Files (x86) with about 10 minutes remaining. Scan was cancelled. Audacity had added the bs2b_vst.dll to plugins.cfg. Audacity was then restarted repeatedly (with rescan not asked for) and every time Program Files (x86) was scanned. The scan stopped when bs2b_vst.dll was removed. After adding bs2b_vst.dll back and asking for rescan, the scan of Program Files x86 resumed. However after computer reboot this problem went away permanently. Some other (unknown) dlls have been reported to do the same on Win 7 x64, the behaviour sometimes only occurs once; other times it survives reboot until it eventually goes away.
(In reply to comment #0) This is gonna be a tough one. I'm not able to recreate it under XP and I will try to under 7 as well, but it sounds like you may not be able to anymore either. Do you have pointers to those DLLs that cause similar problems on Win7 x64? That's what I'm going to be testing on, so more examples may help track it down. Leland
I tried it under Win7 x64 and the plugin recognized just fine. Leland
closing this in the light of Leland's Comment #2
