Sure. This is why I turned to NKSf to vstPreset conversion. Took me half an hour to program, and 15 minutes to convert 65,000 presets, basically almost all my plugins. The problem with this approach however is I don’t really know whether it would be legal to share. I have a thread on this one: Sharing vstPreset files creation utilities, and this is actually the reason I haven’t already shared my utilities.
Hi, nope. Unfortunately many plugins hold names and properties inside database files, and many times they’re encrypted. AND this in conjunction with your previous points takes us to this: It would be ideal that the manufacturers prepare such vstPreset directories, it is just too simple for them. I can imagine some reasons for not doing this, and time needed is not one of them.
Good idea 