Why is Native Access such a trash product?

I don't see any potential problems with your list of added software. I'll review your back-and-forth with poorfellow now, and see if something else pops out at me.

I'm on Windows 24h2, took a look at my content directory,

"Solar Breeze" is the name of the folder without library or anything added.

"Maschine 2 Factory Library" without a 2nd library in the name.

In this case i'd most likely rename the offending folders on disk, add .old orso to the end of the folder, rescan in NI Acces and let NI Access redownload and reinstall.

Well, I found out something just a few minutes ago.

I wanted to see if "Library" would get created if I did a reinstall of a product, so I went to one of my VST partitions (I'm on Windows), and found Bazazian and Bazazian Tapes.

The former's folder did not have "library", either as a part of the name nor as a subfolder.

But Bazazian Tapes was named "Bazazian Tapes Library".

So for gits and shiggles, I decided to use Windows Programs and Files to uninstall Bazazian. Here's what happened:

1. The uninstall took only a moment.
2. I went back and checked to be sure that the folder Bazazian was removed. It was.
3. I did a "refresh" on Native Access. It took a minute, but I have over 400 products.
4. I saw that Bazazian was now shown with an "Install" button in Native Access.
5. I went into the NA Preferences and File locations, and confirmed that the location was indeed set to the same partition (I actually have 4 VST partitions, drive letters I, J, K, and L, and I try to keep them balanced as to how much data each has.) I'm currently using L, and NA was correctly set already as "L/Native Instruments".
6. I hit the Install button for Bazazian in NA. It started the download, and by the time I had toggled to my File Explorer view of L, I could see that I now had a brand new folder, "L/Native Instruments/Bazazian Library"

So THIS is definitely a change from past behavior…but NOT EVERY product from NI or a partner gets the appended "Library" nom de plume. For example, Echo Versions, Electric Keys (Diamond and Phoenix), Feel it, Glaze 2, Homage, Hot Vocals, and Session Bassist - Upright Bass all have "Library", and were installed on September 25th of this year.

But Hazy Days, Higher Place, Hypha, Ireland, Rare Vibrations, Session Strings, and Session Bassist: Icon Bass do not have the word Library appended, and these were also all installed on 9/25.

That makes me think that the change was fairly recent. Maybe from prior to September of this year, and maybe it was a change made in the individual installers for the individual products. NA just runs the installers, so that's probably where the change happened. And of course, NI sure has provided a lot of updated, patch, and fixes for their products this year, so maybe that's how the change gets propagated.

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For most people, this should not be an issue, because NA will put "Library" (or not) in all the correct places at the time of install. But I could see if somebody gets into moving folders around or restoring old folders from a very old backup, things might stop working until the user performs a "locate" on the folder.

Now if I put on my IT manager hat for a moment, I'll say that Native Instruments probably should have told us about this change…and who knows, maybe they did and I missed that thread of posts. But at least we know it now.