Subject:Well 1st major problem

Posted by: _Gabriel_

Date:6/23/2010 12:16:23 PM

I did a rescan for VSTs. I set the rescan for Drive C:/. Now every time I try to start Acid it tries to load every program on my hard. Funny, most programs only search for VSTs and ignore everything else.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled the program 5 times now. Manually deleted all my sony folders, cleaned my registry, did a full reinstall again and it's still trying to install EVERYTHING on my hard drive. Problem is, if i could get it to at least start up I would remove that scan destination but I get 1/4 into the startup mode and it crashes on me.

Any ideas?

Using my laptop with windows 7.

Subject:RE: Well 1st major problem

Reply by: _Gabriel_

Date:6/23/2010 2:26:41 PM

Well, 2 hours later, tried just about everything i could think of except formating my hard drive.

Sony?

Any way I can start up Acid and bypass the scan?

Thank you
Gabriel

Subject:RE: Well 1st major problem

Reply by: pwppch

Date:6/23/2010 2:48:37 PM

There is a command line switch:

-NOVSTGROVEL (or /NOVSTGROVEL)

So create a temp desktop icon by dragging acid70.exe to the desktop from your program files folder.


"C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\ACID Pro 7.0\acid70.exe -NOVSTGROVEL"

FWIW: When you told ACID to look at C:\, it assumed you knew what you wanted. There is no way to search only for VSTs and ignore everything else. A VST is a DLL. The only way to determine that it is a VST is by loading it. We really never predicted that a user would search their entire C: drive this way.

Our bad for allowing users to be their own worst enemy.

What "most" other program have you tried that handled a scan of C:\ with out issues?

Peter

Subject:RE: Well 1st major problem

Reply by: _Gabriel_

Date:6/23/2010 3:09:45 PM

Yeah, my bad. i usually have it scan a specific destination folder. I think i've done it before with cubase, also pretty sure I've scanned my C: drive in Traction back in the day, they simply ignored it but sure took their time loading lol.

anyways i copied your destination and switch to my target field in properties but I'm getting an error now that it's an invalid path. I've tried using a forward slash to seperate the path from the switch but that didn't work either.

Subject:RE: Well 1st major problem

Reply by: _Gabriel_

Date:6/23/2010 4:20:43 PM

alrighty, got it up and running again!

Thanks Peter !!

Subject:RE: Well 1st major problem

Reply by: pwppch

Date:6/23/2010 9:56:11 PM

So the NOVSTGROVEL flag worked for you?

Peter

Subject:RE: Well 1st major problem

Reply by: _Gabriel_

Date:6/24/2010 8:05:08 AM

Hey Peter,

No never got that switch working. I even went into command line and tried to pin it down there. Either that attribute is hidden or it was mispelled. I should have tried all lower case since batch files are all case sensitive.

Not a big deal, I just had to dig deep in the programs (x86) folders and launched the Acid Pro 7.0 file. It has a slightly different icon, smaller in size. That bypassed all the scans. When I got into the program I simply removed that silly mistake of mine, reinstalled Acid Pro and everything is good now :)

Thanks for your patience !
Gabriel