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Awesome, nice solution! Glad you got it working!

Ah, I don't have that version of OSX, so can't say if it's dependent or not. My guess is that it wouldn't be, but who knows? If you've downloaded the pkg files, you should be able to search in Finder by file type for "pkg" to discover their location. Also, as tootone mentioned, they might be located on an external device if you've configured it that way. So double check that you've downloaded them (and that they haven't installed already) and search for them. They'll be there somewhere! Here's a screenshot of how to search by kind in Finder. Basically, open up a Finder window, type "pkg" into the top-right search field, click the plus icon that comes up right below the search field, set the parameters to "Kind" is "Other" and type in "pkg" again. (Make sure you're in a larger scope too or it will just search one subfolder instead of a larger one). Also, you may want to activate the File Visibility and Systems Files parameters to be sure all locations are showing up in the search. In the first drop down menu where "Kind" is, click it and then click "Other". Search through the list until you see "File Visibility" and "System Files" and check each one to show up in the menu. Then click the plus sign again and select these options in your search and adjust their values to "Visible or Invisible" and "are included". Hope that helps! Let us know if you find them!

Nice! Glad it's helping and thanks for adding your solution to the recipe! Much better than the long downloads, yeah? That was always a huge bottle neck in my OS-refreshes, so I'm pumped for this solution as well :D . Happy music making!

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Alright! Just installed the entire sample library with the installpkg script and it took about 60 minutes, hands-free. Take that, 2 day download. One final note: after the batch install and when you open up Logic, it will prompt you again to download the sound library and/or the essential sound collection. Allow it to by clicking "Resume", etc and then cancel it. The prompt will disappear the next time you start Logic. Enjoy!

Ok great, happy to report that I found a batch install script that does indeed work! Download and install a nice little script called installPKG from: https://github.com/henri/installpkg. During install it will ask you to install a font (for some reason?), but you can deny this request. After install, open up Terminal and type: sudo installpkg LogicSamplesPKG/* Where "LogicSamplesPKG" is the name of the folder that has your backup pkg files. You may be able to type the full path instead, ie: "sudo installpkg Desktop/LogicSamplesPKG/*" or alternatively, you can navigate to the enclosing folder with the change directories command "cd" before running the script. For example, if your samples folder is on the Desktop, use "cd Desktop" and then run "sudo installpkg LogicSamplesPKG/*". Eitherway, point to the folder with all the packages, making sure not to have a slash infront of the folder name and ending it with the slash and asterix. Terminal will prompt you for your password and then it will run an install for all the pkgs. You are now free to go do some pushups or eat some food! When it finishes running the script, it will suggest that you restart your computer, but you don't have to for these pkgs; just reopen Logic and they will be installed. And just to confirm that this does indeed work, here's a screenshot showing that two previously uninstalled sound libraries are now recognized by Logic's Sound Library Manager by following this method: So now, in order to keep up to date, any time Logic says there are new sounds to download, simply follow this method to backup the pkg files and hopefully you'll never have to download them all at once again! -- Credit for this method goes to Richard "10 Points To Me!" Oaten for illuminating the pkg folder path in the Apple Support Forums: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5176488 ...and to developers Henri "The Name Is Not Very Good" Shustak and Leif "The Software Is Not Very Well Tested" Keane for creating the installPKG script, on GitHub at: https://github.com/henri/installpkg.

Hey all, just wanted to chime in. I'm in the same boat: I have the full 60GB Library from the Application Support > Logic folder (meaning they were all installed previously), but when I go to paste them back to that location after an OS refresh, Logic doesn't see them. What you can do though is when you first download the Logic samples -- and before you install them -- is find the pkg files on your hard drive and back those up. Then use a shell script to batch install all the pkg files. This is perhaps a cleaner way to go about it rather then disabling csrutil and implanting old receipts since it will install everything fresh again. It's essentially what the Sound Library Manager does, just without the headache of downloading 60GB from a slow server. How to find and backup the pkg files: using Sound Library Manager, select the samples you want to download and start downloading them. After they've downloaded, macOS will prompt you to enter your password, but don't. Leave that dialogue box open and instead go into Finder and we'll find the pkg files that were just downloaded. From Finder hit CMD + Shift + G to open the "Go to the folder:" dialogue box and then type in "/private/var/folders/". You'll have to look through these subfolders since they are arbitrarily named until you find the folder path: com.apple.MusicApps > audiocontentdownload.apple.com > lp10_ms3_content_2016 (or 2013, etc). Then within here you will see the pkg files. There are other data files in here named .resumeData and.resumeDataMA, but you only need the pkg files (assuming the download has finished completely). Sort this finder window by kind to group all the pkg files together and then drag and drop them to your backup disk. How to reinstall the pkg files: So now that you have all the pkg files, when it comes time to reinstall them, you can either shift+select all the pkg files you want, open them all at once, and work through installing each one manually like a normal program, or since there are lots of pkg files, you may want to use a terminal command to batch install them all. (Full disclosure: I haven't gotten to this step of using a script to batch install yet, but it should work in theory. Check out the discussion here on creating a while loop: https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/19560/script-to-install-multiple-pkgs. I do intend to give it a shot though and I'll report back here with an update.) Even if you choose to install them all manually, in the face of the loss of time with downloading the entire library again, you will come out ahead in saving time. Also, if like amitygardens mentioned, you only use a handful of your favorite Logic samples, installing them manually may be the way to go. Hopefully this turns the "hell" of it all into a more "heavenly" experience. Also this method of backing up the pkg files before install works with other companies. Arturia's Software Center app for example downloads all the pkg files then prompts you for your password to install. Again, you can go into Finder and locate the pkg files and back them up before install. The largest bottleneck in refreshing your rig is the downloading process, so having the backup pkg files will save lots of time. Hope that's helpful! I'll report back after I find a shell script that works

Curious if anyone can comment on this topic a few years later? I have the option to install ElCap, Sierra, or HiSierra on a 2010 iMac and also on a 2011 MBP (top specs for the time on each) and I'm looking to make them both as performant as possible. Any considerations based on OSX or Logic improvements between those versions? For example, in a recent FCPX update, there was a development that allows 4k videos to be played back at the same quality but at half the CPU requirement (or something like that). Anything similiar for audio? My main curiosity is for the age of my hardware, what might be the most optimal configuration? My external hardware is: an Apogee Ensemble Firewire and Duet Firewire with a Novation Impulse MIDI controller and I use Logic Remote from time to time. Or there is the wildcard option to install Snow Leopard and rock my CD-ROM version of Logic Express 8... Thanks, John

Perfect! This absolutely fixes the issue and now I know to check in the event editor for any zero values. Thank you so much, David. Oh, and I think you dropped this on your way out.

Sure thing, David. See attached. I copied the project and it has only the MIDI track as requested. And yeah, definitely odd. But no worries if it's just a glitch in the Matrix. It actually sent be back to this website to ask for help where I noticed my old specs in the user signature, got a bit nostalgic for Logic 10.0.7, and spent the night getting it up and running on High Sierra (and this site helped me find the ProAudioCoreContent10.pkg because 10.0.7 kept crashing during the Essential Sounds download so thanks for that!). Still if you come across a fix, let me know. I use the MIDI from Flex function rarely, but it's definitely a cool feature to have working right when the time comes. Thanks man, John Whistle To MIDI copy.zip

I'm running into a weird issue using MIDI from Flex -- curious if it's a known bug or if I'm doing something wrong? MIDI from Flex error I have an audio file called "whistle". I flexed it for pitch which worked fine. Then I clicked create MIDI from Flex and it generated a MIDI track with all the notes as expected; however, opening the Piano Roll shows several MIDI notes missing. Playing through the song only plays what's in the Piano Roll and not what's represented in the MIDI region. Any ideas? (This is Logic 10.4.7.) Thanks, John

Hey, I think I found the issue: The pedal board had a mixer pedal on it that was negating my track panning. Problem solved.

Howdy: I've scoured the webz for a solution, but nothing's working. Here's the issue: I have two guitar tracks panned hard left and hard right. I send them to Bus # for effects. When I do so, the panning is not preserved. What I've tried: Sent each track signal to Bus # at unity, trying all three options: Post Pan, Pre Fader, Post Fader. Changed the output on each track from Stereo Out to Bus # and removed the sends. Made sure the auxiliary track input receiving Bus # is set to stereo. Am I missing something? Any ideas?