Remove Unauthorized UAD Plugins from LUNA

[h_wood]

I own 84 x UAD-2 DSP plugins with a perpetual license. (UAD-2 Satellite Thunderbolt 3 - OCTO)
I now also happily own 28 x UADx plugins kindly granted by UA via my existing ownership of the DSP versions.
I just updated to v11.2.0, which of course wiped out my carefully managed plugin folders and once again installed everything in the UAD catalog.
OK, I once again laboriously went thru my usual process of color-coding green or grey those plugins which I do/do not own, and then moving the 130 greys to a new folder with the tag-line (unused) - so that my plugin menu is not a mass of unwanted/unauthorized plugins.
The UAD-2 Control Panel of course does not help with this process, because it cannot manage plugins, it cannot be re-sized, and it cannot even be sorted by alphabetical or authorization status. I cannot even search for a particular plugin within the Plug-Ins menu of the UAD-2 Control Panel

This manual weeding-out process of course must be done for all plugin formats separately - ie AAX, AU (Logic components), VST, VST3 and also now the "Plug-Ins > UAD > components" path.
Pro Tools AAX worked fine - moved to path Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Avid/Audio/Plug-Ins (Disabled)/Universal Audio (Disabled)
Logic AU components worked fine - moved to path Macintosh HD/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins (AU Disabled)/
Only my owned plugins appear in both Pro Tools and Logic.
LUNA is a different story.
It keeps throwing errors upon launch
"UAD ADA Flanger requires and can't find the original installed plug-in."
"UAD ADA STD-1 Stereo Tapped Delay requires and can't find the original installed plug-in."
"UAD 4K Channel Strip requires and can't find the original installed plug-in."
Why is it even looking for something that I removed ? Does LUNA require a complete UAD plugin installation in order to run ?
I'd like to use it, but I might just have to give up.
LUNA now is just freezing upon launch, and is therefore unusable. I'm now completely lost as to the problem, where to put things back, where to remove something, whether there's a meta-data text file I can edit, etc. Anything other than yet another complete reinstall. I've already gone thru this twice with v11.2 - and I'm no novice with managing complex computer audio software installs.

This other folder which contains ".component" plugins, called "UAD" (path > Macintosh HD/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/UAD ...
Why do we have this copy of all the components as well as those used by Logic?
Which plugin folder is LUNA actually looking at? VST, VST3, Components (Logic), or UAD (components) ?
Can we choose ? (as is allowed by software like Ableton)

Also, I'd like to know if the UAD VST3 Subfolders are absolutely necessary, as I'd prefer just one folder of active UAD VST3 plugins :
Channel Strip and Preamp
Compressors and Limiters
Delay and Modulation
Equalizers
Guitar and Bass
Mastering
Microphone
Pitch Correction
Reverb and Room
Special Processing
Tape and Saturation
UAD Unused

I plead with UA to allow us to install and manage only those plugins which we own. Plugin-Alliance have a great system that allows this, as does SSL, and even UA - but only for the native UADx plugins via the UA Connect app - Not DSP.
We really need a better method of updating for DSP. Many UA customers have been begging for a solution for years now.

How do I correctly get rid of unwanted plugins from LUNA?

 

[h_wood]

I managed to answer my own question - since nobody appeared to know the answer.
I did some digging and found the solution on how to remove plugins from within LUNA (that I did not own) from that gigantic "Universal Audio" plugins list on the left hand side. BTW, it has nothing to do with moving plugins to another "unused" folder.
It also speeds up launch of LUNA massively. It currently launches the app ready to load a session in just 7 seconds - and I still haven't even finished removing all the ones I don't own.

 

[daveming3]

I managed to answer my own question - since nobody appeared to know the answer.
I did some digging and found the solution on how to remove plugins from within LUNA (that I did not own) from that gigantic "Universal Audio" plugins list on the left hand side. BTW, it has nothing to do with moving plugins to another "unused" folder.
It also speeds up launch of LUNA massively. It currently launches the app ready to load a session in just 7 seconds - and I still haven't even finished removing all the ones I don't own.

Inquiring minds would like to know - care to share with the group?

 

[h_wood]

Hi Dave,
Yes, I'll share the file once I'm complete and it should be easy for everyone to customize.

 

[h_wood]

OK, sorry guys - I went down a rabbit hole with this. I've now got nothing but crashes and I don't want to make problems for others.
I really don't want to reinstall v11.2.0 all over again either, since I've already sorted my Pro Tools AAX and Logic AU folders.
It would be so much easier if we had a real "UAD-2 Plug-In Manager" hint ... hint ...

I'm abandoning LUNA for now until we get a user-friendly method of managing this stuff. Shame, since it's starting to look quite good.
Back to Pro Tools.
I'll check back again in a year or two.

 

[RogueM]

… if only there was a way…

 

[Vicente "Tete" Ferrera]

OK, sorry guys - I went down a rabbit hole with this. I've now got nothing but crashes and I don't want to make problems for others.
I really don't want to reinstall v11.2.0 all over again either, since I've already sorted my Pro Tools AAX and Logic AU folders.
It would be so much easier if we had a real "UAD-2 Plug-In Manager" hint ... hint ...

I'm abandoning LUNA for now until we get a user-friendly method of managing this stuff. Shame, since it's starting to look quite good.
Back to Pro Tools.
I'll check back again in a year or two.

HI! Have you tried the application that @RogueM made?