Debugging AU's in High Sierra

[pizzafilms]

It use to be that Mainstage/Logic would find and load AU’s in the user’s library folder, but it seems that’s not true in High Sierra.

I’m trying to debug an AU issue so I’ve set MainStage as the executive in my Xcode scheme, but because the AU is built to the user library, it doesn’t appear.

How is anyone else dealing with this?

[ttg]

did you try restarting your machine?
see this -

Installing new Audio Units requires restart in High Sierra

Since macOS High Sierra, installing Audio Unit plugins seems to always requires a restart (or at least a re-login) before hosts see them. Even though we noticed it for all plugins we checked, some folks report that “some AUs require restart, some don’t”. Does anyone know more about this? Is there any special juice required for new AUs to be listed? If so perhaps this juice could be incorporated into JUCE? Is there something new that installers need to do?

[pizzafilms]

I didn’t try rebooting, but at some point I removed my plugin from the user library and they placed it back there by hand. Then it started working. Now I can compile and run MainStage and my newly built plugin in running in the debugger. Pretty odd. Maybe similar to the renaming hack.