I’ve started to run into a new issue. Been using Dorico 4 pretty regularly for a year, and this started happening last couple of days. Haven’t updated Dorico (on latest for Mac) or my Mac (12.6.3 M1).
The issue:
Dorico hangs on startup, and never opens the project browser screen. When I go to activitymonitor, I see “vstscannermaster” using a full core and staying there permanently. Force quitting that process opens the project browser, but when I open my project, I get a crash:
Hi @dyross , I need a spindump from the scannermaster, so please start Dorico again and then in Activity Monitor at the top of the window is an icon with 3 dots. Click there and choose Spindump. The corresponding output please post here. Thanks.
Then kill all processes and follow along this line: Go to /Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST3 and rename that VST3 folder (temporarily) to something else. When you then start up Dorico, does it behave properly?
Hi @dyross , thanks for the data. Unfortunately I can’t see from it, which plug-in is the culprit. But you can quite easily find out with following strategy:
Rename that VST3 folder to something different
Create a new empty VST3 folder
Go to the original/renamed folder and copy half of the plug-ins to the new folder
Start Dorico again and see how it behaves. If it fails again, you know that the culprit is among that half in the new folder, so you throw out half of the plug-ins of that folder and do the same again, i.e. Start Dorico and see how it behaves.
You see the principle, right? You iterate by always taking half and half again, you can fairly quickly find out the culprit, even if you have lots and lots of plug-ins.
For some unknown reason, there was an alias/symlink for the VST3 folder itself inside the VST3 folder, creating a clear infinite loop. No idea how that got there, but now that I’ve removed it, things are working normally.