Topic: Renaming Samples Drive

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Replied October 3, 2011 at 08:37 #1951945

John
Moderator

RayC,

this really sounds strange. You should be able to call that drive just about anything as long as it doesn’t contain any “illegal characters”.
Anyways, changing the drive name will of course make the paths invalid but you can use the latest SoundMover utility to point to the folder containing the EZdrummer folder.
Superior 2 only to re-link the SDX libraries to their location.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied October 3, 2011 at 21:20 #1951956

Ray Campbell
Participant

Erm… I’m on Windows 7.

Pro Tools HD|2 "Classic" w/192 I/O Pro Tools v9.0.3 Windows 7, 64-bit Intel i7-870 2.93 GHz 8 GB RAM

Replied October 3, 2011 at 21:23 #1951957

Scott
Moderator

Updating your member profile info and/or signature may help lessen the confusion…

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied October 3, 2011 at 21:31 #1951958

Ray Campbell
Participant

Sorry, I’m in the midst of transitioning to Windows. Forgot about the profile thing — that was way back in my Beta days.

So… am I knackered?

BTW, the message says something about authorizations possibly getting corrupted if they are on a drive with more than 11 characters. I’ve never heard of such a thing myself, but I get a popup every time I launch PT, and I’m willing to change the name if only to stop having to click “No” to launch.

Pro Tools HD|2 "Classic" w/192 I/O Pro Tools v9.0.3 Windows 7, 64-bit Intel i7-870 2.93 GHz 8 GB RAM

Replied October 4, 2011 at 06:43 #1951967

godprobe
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Did a quick search on (“Pro Tools” “11 characters”) and it looks like it’s just talking about the names of the disk drives themselves.

Thankfully, those (normally) shouldn’t figure into the path for 99% of things on Windows — just the actual drive letters (C:, D:, E:, etc.).

Tested renaming my samples disk name here (Windows XP, unfortunately for your comparison) and didn’t have any trouble loading up the Toontrack plugins and associated sample libraries after the change.

Also unfortunately for your comparison though, I’m not on Pro Tools.

WinXP | Fireface 800 | Variax | Axe-Fx | Toontrack | Komplete | Reaper http://www.godprobe.com/projects/notemaps/

Replied October 4, 2011 at 07:57 #1951969

John
Moderator

As godprobe tested, on Windows the drive letter is more important than the name of the drive.
IOW, you should be fine.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied October 4, 2011 at 16:15 #1951980

Ray Campbell
Participant

Well, thanks for that. So far I’ve been able to load PT and load the Superior and EZX samples. My AVID rep seems to think it should be OK (but he’s just a sales/marketing guy ) I have other sample libraries that I will be loading on the same drive, and some programs actually authorize the library itself, rather than the program, so this “http://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=415999&ssdFilterCommunity15=1409&ssdFilterCommunity10=368&ssdFilter_SearchKeyWord=&ssdFilterCommunity3=1081&Hilite=” thing has me a little apprehensive.

Since a lot of my work has very tight deadlines, I tend to play by the rules as much as possible. If Avid says my daughter needs to have her head shaved to ensure plug-in compatibility, well, I’m out shopping for toques.

Let’s say, just for a lark, I do decide to change the name of the drive, if only to stop the darn popup. Would I be looking at a total reinstall of Superior, EZ-Drummer and 10 EZX’s?
Would just reinstalling Superior with the new EZ Drummer custom path take care of it?
Is there a registry key that I can edit in lieu of reinstalling everything?

EDIT: Oh, I see now that you actually renamed the drive with no issues. I’ll try that and see what happens. I suppose I could always change the name back. Thanks for your patience.

Pro Tools HD|2 "Classic" w/192 I/O Pro Tools v9.0.3 Windows 7, 64-bit Intel i7-870 2.93 GHz 8 GB RAM
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