External Plug-ins section missing from the VST Effects menu

Martin, you are right. The “Missing” and “Expected” images I uploaded are identical. My mistake.

Attached now is the correct image showing the problem - “Missing2”. In the list, after “EQ” there is no entry for “External Effects”.

This list is the same in every place I know of in my project: the Inserts section of the Inspector, same in the Channel Settings Inserts section, the Effect dropdown list in the Add Track / Effect FX track etc. “External Effects” is simply missing. The entry I want, “DigiTech”, is not ‘hiding’ any where else either. I’ve expanded all the entries and it is nowhere, nor can I find it via the search.

Ideas?
Missing2.jpg