The "do not load the following plug-ins" box

WaveLab
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My “Do not load the following plug-ins” is empty except for an unsuccessful attempt. (see attached)

From the manual it says:

“Do Not Load the Following Plug-ins
Lets you specify plug-ins that WaveLab Pro does not open. Enter the file names, without path and without file extension. Write each plug-in on a new line. If you put the character * in front of the name, any plug-in that contains the name is ignored.”

So I did this. I looked at my huge list of ignored plug-ins and manually wrote in some plug-in names in the “Do Not Load the Following Plug-ins” box (see both attachments) and closed WL10 then re-opened and those plug-ins are still listed in the “ignored plug-ins” list.
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My objective is to reduce the number of plug-ins in the “ignored plug-ins” list so I can more easily see the legitimate plugs that indeed need to be re-scanned. Do I need to delete the cache file i.e do a forced re-scan upon start? That alone takes 10 minutes unless I remove all the UAD plugs first.

And speaking of re-scanning, it took 5 consecutive attempts every time highlighting Sonarworks Reference 4, (c>program files> vstplugins) closing WL, re-starting WL and finally on the 5th try, Reference 4 mysteriously showed up. Wavelab 10 for me is like a casino slot machine. Cubase, with the identical file paths has absolutely no issues with this.

So what am I doing wrong with this box that I should be able to simply write in the names unless I need to do a forced scan after writing in the names? In WL 9.5 and all prior versions, this box was populated automatically. I never entered any plug-in names manually.

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Erasing this file
\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\WaveLab Pro 10.0\Cache\plugin-registry.txt
causes a full rescan.

But if you want to do a partial rescan, a hack is to open this file in a text editor, and to remove only the entries yo want to re-evluate.

Something else: adding names in the “ignore by name” list does not cause a rescan.

3

I understand this.

But if I add a name to the “Do Not Load the Following plug-ins” list, which I think you are calling the “ignore by name” list, then request Wavelab to do a re-scan when it opens again, shouldn’t that name no longer appear the “ignored plug-ins” list?

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if I add a name to the “Do Not Load the Following plug-ins” list, which I think you are calling the “ignore by name” list, then request Wavelab to do a re-scan when it opens again, shouldn’t that name no longer appear the “ignored plug-ins” list?

That’s right.