Audition 13.0.12 After Update issues

I have been work for 3 weeks on a project. I just updated Audition which I knew better to not do but I did it anyway.  Now when I open my anyof my project files it has lost reference to 18 of 26 plugins.... when I rescan the plugin folders they say they are all loaded and working... I tried disabling and re-enabling. Nothing is working... I have some serious time into this project and I am completely stuck other that resetting the plugin and re tweeking all the setting... Yes I didn't write down all the settings because it really should be more stable ... I reloaded some of the plugins and changes to vst3 and damn if it didn't crash... Oh yeah and before the update I recorded a whole show (3 hr 4 track simple recordin) absolute trash audio..  Nothing has changed... the setting where exactlly the same as always... first time this has happened in five years... I am really at a loss...  2 absolute complete failures within 3 days .... what gives?