File and folder locations
| Path | Contents |
|---|---|
~/Library/Application Support/REAPER/UserPlugins/reaper_virtue.dylib |
The VFxM REAPER extension binary |
~/Library/Application Support/REAPER/Virtue/ |
Settings, favourites, thumbnails, notes, themes, category overrides |
~/Library/Application Support/REAPER/Virtue/trial.token |
Hardware-bound signed trial token |
~/Library/Application Support/REAPER/Virtue/.vfx_sys_config |
Local trial/activation timestamp cache |
~/Library/Application Support/REAPER/Virtue/VFxM_Scan*.txt |
The thumbnail scanner’s blocklist, queue and in-progress marker |
~/Library/Application Support/REAPER/Virtue/VFxM_LayoutPresets.json |
Saved workspaces (1.2.3); VFxM_Layouts.json is the export copy that travels with a shortcuts export |
~/Library/Application Support/REAPER/Virtue/VFxM_Notes.json |
Your per-plugin notes |
~/Library/Application Support/REAPER/Virtue/VFxM_PluginMetadata.ini |
Per-plugin metadata, including your star ratings |
~/Library/Application Support/REAPER/Virtue/FXSnapshots/ |
One .vfxsnap file per saved FX preset or FX chain, indexed by VFxM_FXSnapshots.ini beside it |
~/Library/Application Support/REAPER/Virtue/Backups/ |
Copies of reaper-menu.ini made before the installer adds or removes the toolbar button, plus HOW_TO_RESTORE_YOUR_TOOLBAR.txt |
~/Library/Application Support/REAPER/Virtue/Backups/PreRestore_<timestamp>/ |
The copy of your data VFxM takes before restoring a backup (1.2.3); the last two are kept. Your own .vfxmbak backups are not here — they go wherever you saved them |
~/Library/Application Support/REAPER/reaper-menu.ini |
REAPER’s own toolbar file. VFxM adds one button to it at install and blanks that slot at uninstall — nothing else |
| Path | Contents |
|---|---|
%APPDATA%\REAPER\UserPlugins\reaper_virtue.dll |
The VFxM REAPER extension binary |
%APPDATA%\REAPER\Virtue\ |
Settings, favourites, thumbnails, notes, themes, category overrides |
%APPDATA%\REAPER\Virtue\trial.token |
Hardware-bound signed trial token |
%APPDATA%\REAPER\Virtue\.vfx_sys_config |
Local trial/activation timestamp cache (hidden file) |
%APPDATA%\REAPER\Virtue\VFxM_Scan*.txt |
The thumbnail scanner’s blocklist, queue and in-progress marker |
%APPDATA%\REAPER\Virtue\VFxM_LayoutPresets.json |
Saved workspaces (1.2.3); VFxM_Layouts.json is the export copy that travels with a shortcuts export |
%APPDATA%\REAPER\Virtue\VFxM_Notes.json |
Your per-plugin notes |
%APPDATA%\REAPER\Virtue\VFxM_PluginMetadata.ini |
Per-plugin metadata, including your star ratings |
%APPDATA%\REAPER\Virtue\FXSnapshots\ |
One .vfxsnap file per saved FX preset or FX chain, indexed by VFxM_FXSnapshots.ini beside it |
%APPDATA%\REAPER\Virtue\Backups\ |
Copies of reaper-menu.ini made before the installer adds or removes the toolbar button, plus HOW_TO_RESTORE_YOUR_TOOLBAR.txt |
%APPDATA%\REAPER\Virtue\Backups\PreRestore_<timestamp>\ |
The copy of your data VFxM takes before restoring a backup (1.2.3); the last two are kept. Your own .vfxmbak backups are not here — they go wherever you saved them |
%APPDATA%\REAPER\reaper-menu.ini |
REAPER’s own toolbar file. VFxM adds one button to it at install and blanks that slot at uninstall — nothing else |
None of these paths are inside REAPER’s own application files. Apart from the
one toolbar button in reaper-menu.ini — which is copied to
Virtue/Backups/ before it is
written — VFxM keeps to its own Virtue/ data folder and the single extension
file in UserPlugins. See Uninstall for exactly
what removing each of these does and doesn’t affect.
The scanner’s three working files used to sit loose at the top of REAPER’s
resource folder. From 1.2.2 they live in Virtue/ with everything else, and
updating moves any existing ones across rather than leaving them behind.