Logic Pro Help

bocksucker wrote:

Hey guys

So i tried following the steps you provided but now when i try to relocate the sound library the drive i want the sound library on is greyed out and it says "sound library files exist here"Screen Shot 2020-06-18 at 8.52.44 PM.png

JEFFHARDY.PRO wrote:

David Nahmani wrote:

I don't think that's possible, unfortunately.

That's unfortunate and seems like an oversight by the LPX developers. I feel like there should be a hack...thanks for your reply, David.

AMD wrote:

Many thanks to helment for the excellent workaround. Does anyone know if this will work for the essential sounds?

I’d like to put a copy of logic on another partition for troubleshooting and I only need the essential sounds. Is there a way I can copy them to the new partition without downloading them again?

jackoverfull wrote:

AMD wrote:

Many thanks to helment for the excellent workaround. Does anyone know if this will work for the essential sounds?

I’d like to put a copy of logic on another partition for troubleshooting and I only need the essential sounds. Is there a way I can copy them to the new partition without downloading them again?

Sure, see my previous post.

jackoverfull wrote:

Give a look into /Library/Application Support/Logic, personally I moved the whole EXS Factory Samples folder, which in my case is around 10GB, but probably not everything there is strictly "essential".

jackoverfull wrote:

I wanted to do something similar and for me the easiest and most flexible way is just using symlynks…

1) Close logic;
2) Locate what you want to move in the finder and move it to the new location. For example I just moved the EXS Factory Samples 10GB folder in /Library/Application Support/Logic/ to another HD;
3) In the terminal write

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ln -s /drop\ here/the\ moved/folder "/path to the original location".

As always in the terminal you either put the path into "quotes" of use backslash\ before\ each\ space.
In my case this was:

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ln -s /Volumes/JackBook\ Pro/Supporto/Logic/EXS\ Factory\ Samples /Library/Application\ Support/Logic/EXS Factory\ Samples

4) Open Logic and it will work without knowing the difference from before.

With this method you can chose what to move where and actually have a library spanning multiple HDs if you want.

ellismarkman wrote:

Can someone who has downloaded all the content upload their “receipt?” That way I can just make logic think I have the content downloaded without having to download 60+gb again. These are the steps I’m trying to do: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8627088

Mark R wrote:

Good point madk0w, same behavior here.

I just checked on my laptop that had only downloaded the "Essential sound and instruments". In the Library Manager it still shows that only that portion is installed. Yet the entire content is working on this laptop. This laptop possibly never stored "receipts", acknowledging that it had downloaded the packages.

Someone could try the test below to see what happens. I'm chicken to try it because everything is working so well on both macs.

Edit: Don't bother with the following test, madk0w found that it doesn't work.

Check box one of the "uninstalled" library packages and click Install. Logic might then see that this library package is actually installed and quickly update its status to Installed without having to download anything.

If that works then proceed to Check box all the other packages. What might possibly happen is that legitimate receipts from apple might be then be bestowed on your computer.

Pure conjecture this. Anyone volunteer to test or even remember where apple puts these "receipts"? I would test, but I have slow internet here.

Edit: Further notes - madk0w reports in the next post that the above does not work.
- So at this point a simple solution is to only download new content to your master "Library" external drive using only the original computer that actually downloaded the library content. On all other computers you have set up to share this drive, ignore their Library Managers.