Recently my PC was acting glitchy, so I restored my system to a HDD image backup prior to having Vegas installed.
After HDD image restore, I did a new install of VP17 and VP18. These new installs reminded me of all the customization I performed inside of each version of Vegas since they were no longer present with the new installs.
The most time consuming customization I performed was categorizing all my audio plugins in the Vegas plugin-in manager by creating sub folder categories, under the "ALL" main folder and then moving each plugin into it's categorized sub folder. It seems the developers have performed a similar task for Video plugins, unlike the audio plugins which all just get thrown into the "All" folder.
What compounded this effort even more is that I also use Sound Forge Pro and Acid Pro which also have a plugin manager and go through the same time intensive efforts in those programs as well. I do this so when I use those programs, I am able to look into the same plugin categorized folders and know where to look and find a particular plugin regardless of which program I'm using.
I have to assume Vegas saves this information for recall when Vegas gets launched, but where?
What I'm trying to achieve is that if Vegas saves this plugin manager customization information into a particular configuration file, then I would like to backup those particular config files after I perform these efforts and then once I perform a refresh new install, copy that configuration file over to the new Vegas installation location and not have to go through and redo the entire categorization plugin manager efforts. This effort takes me hours to complete, so it would definitely be nice to not go through those efforts again after I've done it the first time. VP18 now has Preference menu settings save and recall which is a welcome addition, but honestly that has always been a 10-15 minute customization effort for me to complete, unlike the plugin manager organization efforts which I do for 3 programs, and sometimes different versions as well which all have a similar plugin manager and are developed by Magix.
Here's an example image describing what I'm referring to. Is there some way for me to be able to recall that custom organization of my audio plugins?
Under the "Video" plugins folder, you can see where Video plugins have been categorized by the Vegas developers into categories of "media generators, FX, Transitions, Compositors" which is nice and can be further customized by the user. However under the Audio ALL plugins, I created those sub folders(channel strips, Choruses, Delays, etc) and then manually drag each plugin into those labeled sub-folders. Very time consuming but makes my life easier once it's complete.