Tim Lloyd

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Great, that's helpful. Thanks

You can determine which locations the program searches for VST plug-ins by going to Preferences\Files\VST Settings. I suggest trying to delete paths to see which is causing it to hang (take a note of them first in case you want to restore them).

This file was archived to OneDrive from a different file location, so I don't know how Cakewalk found the path.

I know this is an old thread, but I am also finding that CbB is taking a long time to load, and I don't think this issue was fully resolved. For me, it seems connected with the startup screen that lists recent projects to choose from. One of my projects is on OneDrive, and when I launch the program I get a pop-up message from OneDrive telling me Cakewalk.exe is downloading from OneDrive - in this case a 580 MB cwb file which takes a while to download from the cloud. Why Cakewalk would need to download files just to present the list on startup, I don't know. So if people have large files from previous projects, maybe that's why they are experiencing a long wait while these files load. I've tried to find a way to delete these projects from the list of recent files, but can't find a way. Maybe someone out there knows how to do this.