I think I found the problem. I had initially installed BIAB from the downloaded installation file. Then I decided to wait until the USB drive arrived to install the RealTracks. When it arrived, I found that there was one installation program on the USB drive that installs everything - BIAB, RD's, RT's, etc. So I ran that installer and installed the main BIAB program to a different folder than I had installed the downloaded version to. And installed the RT's, RD's to a different hard drive than the main program.

Turns out that I have been starting the program using the desktop icon created the original installation from the downloaded installer, not the new one created by the installation from the USB drive. It was that original instance of BIAB that didn't see the RT's. Upon discovering this, I made a new BIAB icon for the BBW.exe in the folder created during the installation from the USB drive. Running it from that folder, all is OK. It finds the RT's.

Still .... even though I was running BIAB from the original location by mistake, the preferences for that instance of the program pointed to the right folder for the RT's and I did a "Rebuild" in the Style Browser, so I don't understand why it couldn't find them. It found the RealDrums, which were in a subfolder on the same level as the RT folder, but couldn't find the RT's.

F:\BIAB Real Instruments
...Drums
...RealTracks

(I used this folder naming structure after seeing a forum post by another user who said this is how he does it. Seemed like a good arrangement to me so I used it.)

Since BIAB runs from a folder, not dependent on the Windows registry, it would seem like I could have multiple instances of the program and they should all find the RT's as long as I point to the right folder in preferences for each instance.

Last edited by dalemccl; 08/21/09 09:40 PM.