UAD Plugins not working

[Sir]

I recently had to move my failed C Drive to a new drive. (Cloned the drive) I reinstalled my UAD plugins to the new drive.

They show up as installed in UA Connect and in a scan log in Cakewalk but will no longer show up in either the browser or the plugins manager utility. The dreaded iLok manager looks to be ok.

I've contacted both Universal Audio and Cakewalk support but no one seems to be able to help.

Anyone here know anything?

Thanks

[Mr No Name]

UA connect /ilok may not recognise your new drive, may still be connected to your old drive ?

[GIM Productions]

hi ,if your new drive is OS drive maybe Ilock don't recognize the id system

With UAD all right here

[Sir]

Thanks all for your suggestions. none seem to work.

I'll plough on with UA.

[Sir]

Sorry pwal, just seen your post

No they don't show up or work in Ableton or Tracktion.

But they do appear in the Cakewalk Scan log.

[Glenn Stanton]

did you check to see if somehow they got added to the "excluded" plugins list?

[Sir]

Thanks Glenn. No not in excluded or anywhere else.

Thanks pwal. I've tried re-installing everything including UA Connect and iLok manager and did a clean re-install of Cakewalk.

They still appear in the scan log and show in the search box at the bottom during a scan but do not come up in the browser or the plugin manager.

It's very frustrating!

[Sir]

I've checked the event viewer and can't find any references to UA

but I'm not really sure what I'm looking for.

[Glenn Stanton]

is there any associated hardware device you need connected? re-registered with the OS / PC? i'm presuming you're using native UA vs the HW UA plugins?

[Sir]

Thanks Glenn

These are UAD Plugins. No hardware required.

[Sir]

Thanks pwal. I tried that but no change.

[lapasoa]

Maybe install a new version of Ilok license manager that could see your new C drive.

[Guest]

With my iLok I have to go in and submit a change when I install a new C drive. All the vendors responded and fixed the issues except for Air. I finally managed to contact them via Email and they reset my list of activations. The deal is you have to de-activate the computer BEFORE you swap the drive. Even a Cloned drive.  The new drive apparently crates a new Machine ID.  

But that said, normally a plug is will still load up in your DAW but with a "needs Activation" warning. 

Edited July 25, 2024 by Sock Monkey

[msmcleod]

If you clone the partition ID's as well as the data, then most activations should be fine.

This is why I use Clonezilla rather than other "move your OS drive" utilities that come with new drives.  Clonezilla clones everything, whereas some other utilities only do the partition contents.

When cloning to a larger drive, I let Clonzilla do its thing, then use PartitionWizard (free edition) to resize the partitions to use the extra space.

[Sir]

Thanks to all for your help.

A very helpful chap at UA has eventually solved this now. Apparently to do with permissions?