Opening BFD opens content location folder (page) first. EVERY SINGLE TIME. WHY ? It should open to the BFD3 opening page where you get started playing.
Is there a license button showing next to some of the content paths?
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As @deangersmith pointed out, itâs most probably because one of your products needs licensing.
Check through your contents tab for a âlicenceâ button.
It could also be because one of your folders has been moved but that usually gives you a warning message before opening.
Steve
I contacted support about this some time ago, I will try and find the email, but they said I could ignore that âlicence buttonâ as long as the software was still working correctly, which it was, but yes itâs annoying that that the content window always pops up after opening, still happens to me now, it did stop at one point last year but sadly it returned.
This happens to me and has been for some time since getting my M1 Mac 2.5 years ago. Itâs annoying that every session you start up with BFD in it, this window pops up. The devs are sitting on their A$$ about getting the software back to its former glory. Donât hold your breath though. They have been âworking really hardâ on the matter blah, blah, blah. I suppose I should be grateful it still works at this point. But my confidence in the devs work prowess is just about gone. I wished I hadnât invested so much with this instrument. It really is a great tool.
I agree completely. It WAS a fantastic drum sampler. None sound as great. But ever since the migration, It has fallen apart. The simplest of things have become complicated and riddled with issues.
I donât think Iâve seen any major issues since migration that werenât related to the licence manager and new licencing system.
People have always had issues with the contents locations and install paths but itâs often a case of pilot error rather than software.
Steve
You sure about that? When I migrated a couple years ago, the LM was riddled with problems. Even now with the latest LM, I just got inexplicably deauthorized yesterday and Iâm hardwired to the internet. This is the second time so far this year and it happened to me about 4 times last year. This shouldnât still be happening if youâre always online.
Thatâs what I said though,
âI didnât see any problems that WERENâT related to the licence managerâ.
Meaning, "mostâ of the problems were due to the new LM regime.
Steve
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I was deauthorized on both computers in the past week. Also hardwired. The reauthorisation was quick and simple.
Oops, sorry mate. I canât find my reading glasses? 
Yeah, for the most part, thatâs been my experience as well, but the LM needs to be further tuned because as in our cases being always connected to the web, the LM shouldnât be deauthorizing.
Instead of the LM making periodic checks, I think it might be better to just let it run down to a day or so before the timer is up, to make the license check. That would mitigate any untimely situations when itâs checking in the background, something goes awry and disables BFD3.
I had to open BFD3 in Pro Tools the other day to make some changes to some drum tracks and was disabled. I held my breath that I wasnât going to lose hours trying to get up and running again. Whenever I encounter the disabled screen, I still get this nervous feeling that it wonât behave and Iâll have to wait a day for it to sort out. Those painful early days of migration still stick with you. Iâm just not confident in this system honestly.
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Yes bro when I saw those nasty screens with that ugly yellow writing that isnât even clear, I almost had a fit, the memoriesâŚâŚreally wasnât a good feeling, I was shocked that it re-authorised so smoothly lol. Totally agree with you.
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I was having this issue too. When it scanned, it caught the BFD Player paths too. When I selected those paths and chose Remove Selected Paths and it stopped doing that.
Does it still show that content from those paths though?
Oh I misunderstood, BFD player paths as you stated, thatâs not the issue with mine, itâs the licence button showing for some BFD3 paths, if I remove them I wonât see the content.