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I'm not sure what to think regarding that particular data point, but in my tests if you put a working AU in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components then auval, Live 8, Logic etc. will ignore it. Move it to ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components and it will work as normal.

Thing is, after much testing and mucking around (not to mention migrating documents, apps and settings from a Leopard installation), I can't be sure if that particular folder even existed before I started. I'm pretty sure it wasn't there after I did the first wave of installations. Can anyone comment on the existence or non-existence of this folder in a *clean* Snow Leopard install?

Kind regards

Dave

From: Volker in Lists [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:18 AM
To: Muon Software Ltd - Dave
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re: No global Components folder in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins in Snow Leopard??

Hi,

I have a component installed there - a audio format converter - which is called from the global folder. It is not an AU, though.

Maybe that helps...

Volker

Am 22.10.2009 um 12:11 schrieb Muon Software Ltd - Dave:

I'm just doing some compatibility testing with Snow Leopard and I've found that although our installers apparently work (writing to /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components), the resulting components are not detected in any Audio Unit host or with auval. After copying the plug-ins to the local components folder ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components they work just fine.

It seems to me that in fact an out of the box install of Snow Leopard doesn't actually have the /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components folder and AU hosts now ignore it.

What's the reasoning for this? it's not as if its easy to get PackageMaker to write to a user folder - and surely it breaks rather a lot of installers already in the wild?