I’ve installed Cubase 13 on a shared Mac Pro. Other users have installed plugins with an iLok authorisation to use with other DAWs. The authorisation is on their physical iLok dongles, to which I don’t have access.
Now, when loading Cubase, I get several authorisation/activation screens for the various plugins that I don’t have authorisation for. Is there a way to prevent these screen from appearing every time I load Cubase without uninstalling the plugins?
By current collection, do you mean the plugins installed on the computer? It’s a shared computer where we all use the same user account, so there will be other users who use other DAWS with an iLok for the plugins in question. I can’t really uninstall, but as the other DAWs are Pro Tools and Logic, I guess nobody needs the VST version so could uninstall that. Not sure if that’s possible…?
You would have to create a new collection without the plugs and make that active instead of the default.
I’m not convinced it will make any difference though. Pretty sure the startup scan is all plugs on system not only the active collection.
I made a collection with just one plug active, re-opened Cubase to check it was still the active collection (all good) and then re-opened with ilok unplugged.
As I thought…Cubase scans all plugins and causes a barrage of ilok authentication errors.
Brilliant. OK thanks for the answers guys. I will give it a go and see what happens! If not that, maybe another solution will present itself in the process. Thanks for the knowledge!
Thanks again guys. So it looks like I’m stuck. (Unless I’m not!)
I created a new collection. It only pulls up plugins that are not in the blocklist, which is the same as what the default collection does anyway. The nag screen plugins are all in the blocklist anyway, so I guess I’m screwed?