I don’t understand your issue with the libraries and hard drives, but I’m wondering if my experience might be helpful to you.

I own probably over half the Toontrack libraries, and have downloaded all of them at the time of purchase, rather than wait on a hard drive to be mailed to me from Toontracks.  You don’t need a specific Toontracks hard drive.

Most of my libraries are installed on one or more external drives.  You don’t need to install them on your system drive, as far as I remember.  The installation process, and assigning libraries to external drives, should be pretty easy for most people.

Hey Joe,

So I have played around with this a bit and it looks like what you want to do is doable. I have Rooms of Hansa on a separate drive, so I shutdown SD3, unmounted that one drive and when I started SD3 up Rooms of Hansa was not in the list of SDXs. When I shutdown SD3, mounted the drive with that library on and started SD3 backup, Rooms of Hansa was again in the list and available.

To give you step by step instructions, I would need to know, where your current SDXs are located (and which ones you have) and what platform you are working on Windows/Mac and OS version, etc .  Those basic things really help those who want to help you. (I’m on Mac but the basic process should be the same)

I have only ever downloaded my SDXs and installed them to an external drive. When you run the installer you will see a browse option, that’s where you guide the installer to the external SSD drive.

For existing libraries, shutdown SD3, move (or copy if you want to be safe) the SDX folders in their entirety to a folder on your external SSD. (I will paste one of my drive folders so you know what I mean).

Start SD3 up and go into; settings > Libraries/Paths

For each SDX go the menu on the far right and select change path and navigate to the new folder on your SSD.

Check to make sure your SDXs are working properly from the new SSD, then you should be able to remove them from your internal/system drive.

That should be it.

• This post was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by Brad.

Hey Joe,

I am sure you will be able to get your libraries moved, but I have subscribed to this thread so if you have any questions just post them here and I will try to get back to you quickly.

No worries mate, glad it worked well and yes it is quite straight forward. You’ll find moving them is too.

Cheers

Brad