On a M1 Mac, launching ProTools is bogged down by the scanning of multiple WaveShells, mainly V14. It takes nearly 60 seconds just to scan through all the WaveShells when opening ProTools. I don’t even own a bundle anymore, just the handful of Waves plugs I need, which is why this is so unacceptable. Last year I was able to delete many of my WaveShells (paring through my root/Applications/Waves folder) and that load time went down to 10 seconds. But now it’s back to 60 seconds, and it’s loading all the waveshells I deleted last year. I do the same paring down process, but even if I trash the unwanted WaveShells and restart my Mac, they still come up during PT launch.
How can I delete those unwanted WaveShells so they don’t keep loading and dragging down my launch time?
Mac Studio 2023, ventura 13.5.2, ProTools 2023.6.0
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Have you tried rebuilding the plugin cache, if ProTools has one, and/or running Version Organiser and possibly the Repair function in Waves Central settings??
I saw a similar thing on my Windows PC. No amount of cleaning/repairing/reinstalling helped until I had to reinstall my whole OS (unrelated reasons), so my guess is that Waves Central is storing some data somewhere that doesn’t get cleaned up but makes it decide that it needs those extra versions still.
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Hey @ebtihal,
Welcome ot the Waves Forum.
A tech support representative will follow up via email to assist with the behavior you reported.
Feel free to share your experience/solution.
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Hello, Adi. Uri from Tech Suppt emailed me and had me do a complete uninstall/reinstall. It worked! Now it’s only loading v14.19 and 15.5 and it’s back down to only sucking up 10 seconds instead of 58. Think of what I can do with that time! Learn to crochet!?
Thank you all!~
-Peter
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