Virtual Instruments File Structure On A Mac Tower

[mojobone]

My OS (Yosemite) is on an SSD that's filling up quickly, and I want to move multiple gigabytes of mostly Kontakt instrument samples to a dedicated 7200RPM 3TB magnetic internal drive, and not sure exactly how to go about it without buggering my installations. Noob question, I know, but my last Mac wasn't used for production, just internet, so....any tips? My DAW writes to a RAID array in drive slots 3 and 4.

[andygabrys]

easy:

1. copy all relevant libraries to your Sample Drive
2. delete them from your system SSD
3. remap contact data paths - in the options button / menu in Kontakt you set up paths that Kontakt searches for to find the instruments / data. That will help projects starting from this date forward.

you will likely come across a situation where an existing project won't properly find the Kontakt data once you have moved it.

In the error window that pops up:

tick the box near the bottom that says "keep data paths" blah blah blah "for this session"

then browse for folder, select the new drive / folder that has your samples in it.

hit find / search.

once it has recovered all the paths save project.

HTH

[kclements]

I would add to what Andy said and do a Batch resave in Kontakt as well. It helps speed things up and find missing samples and such. https://youtu.be/4reaZG5cCn0

Cheers
kc

[mojobone]

Thanks Andy and Kayle!

[andygabrys]

I would add to what Andy said and do a Batch resave in Kontakt as well. It helps speed things up and find missing samples and such. https://youtu.be/4reaZG5cCn0

Cheers
kc

Nice one! Does that work in any library? I know Outputqas recommending it for signal and rev. But every library?

[mojobone]

There are libraries that Pay NI to make their samples easier to navigate. Reporting, not judging.