Topic: Simple way to install without having to download again?

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Replied November 3, 2018 at 17:07 #2121346

Dan Maynard
Participant

I have the same question. I made the mistake of switching from High Sierra to Mojave which caused DAW to fail. It would take most of the day to re-download everything. The sound files are all on a remote drive.

Just A Simple Guitar Player

Replied November 5, 2018 at 14:40 #2124595

Olof Hermansson
Moderator

If the downloads (the original ones with original names and of same versions as the currently available ones) are in PM’s download folder, PM will detect them (and just verify) if you start to download again.

For an SDX, if you have an installation and don’t need to install it somewhere else, you can tell PM where it is installed by clicking Show Details and Installation Info, then use the menu to the right.

If you for some reason need the SDX download/installer again and you have an installation somewhere, you could do like this: start the download, then pause it after maybe 10 s. Go into the download folder, into the “.incomplete” folder for that SDX, then into Contents > SL-* > Sounds (if it doesn’t exist, resume the download for a bit longer and pause it again). Copy all .obw files from the Sounds folder that is inside the installation’s path to this Sounds folder. Then resume the download. It should need to download just a little then but the verification may take quite a long time.

Olof Hermansson - Toontrack
Coder

Replied June 9, 2022 at 10:17 #2940866

Halfdan
Participant

Hi there!

I’d like to suggest to Toontrack that you refine Product Manager in the area. I too have both SD3 and EZDrummer and almost all expansions – and I can’t point PM to the folder on my external drive where I keep all these expansions, but have to download XX Gb’s of data wasting precious natural ressources at both ends – OR moving my existing libs back to the download folder !?

I currently have the same discussion with Native Instruments, having the same unreasonable shortcoming in their portal – I’m thinking how many coder hours will it take to change this behaviour, weighted against how many hours we spend on installing shit instead of composing !?

Moderator, do let somebody at HQ know that PM is in for an update – not least as a courtesy to those of us who have invested heavily in your stuff.

Thanks in advance !

Best regards

Halfdan E

EZdrummer version: 3.0.2
Operating system: macOS Monterey (12)

Replied June 9, 2022 at 10:36 #2940874

Halfdan
Participant

actually, I just realized there IS a simple way to point Product Manager to your EZX expansions, by simply deleting your (empty) EZ Drummer folder from the library, then opening EZ Drummer and pointing it to your external location – same process as when moving your files to new loc:

described here:

https://www.toontrack.com/faq/how-do-i-move-the-sounds-for-ezdrummer-2/

I still think this should be a part of PM – but at least there’s a workaround 🙂

Cheers

Halfdan E

EZdrummer version: 3.0.2
Operating system: macOS Monterey (12)
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