Moved sound libraries to external drive – Logic can't find them

[James]

I’m sure this must have been asked a million times so sorry for dragging this up again, but after moving my Core and Legacy of Rock sound libraries to an external drive and pointing SD3 to them the stand alone version worked fine, but the Logic install couldn’t see either of them. The EZX libraries I left in place on my Mac hard drive still worked in Logic.

I cleared out the Logic cache and rebuilt the plug ins – no luck. I checked the Superior FAQ’s but it wasn’t mentioned there so sorry guys, any advice?

Thanks James

Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)

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[James]

Okay so this is really weird.

I Googled this a bit more and found a few YouTube videos and one – for no good reason – stood out, because the guy put his SD3 library into another folder on his external drive: I just copied it to the empty drive.

Anyway – I make a new folder on the drive (Toontrack of course) and move my SD libraries into it – and lo and behold all is good again. Just pointed SD3 (standalone and DAW versions) to the new TT folder and this time they both work.

There is no good reason that adding folder structure to a file should make it more visible – maybe I just moved a header file off a bad data block or something; but whatever. It works now. Happy days.

Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Actually there might be a good reason: theres’ a possibility the group permission of the root level of the drive may not be allowing SD3 to see the files on that level.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[James]

Bear-Faced Cow wrote:

Actually there might be a good reason: theres’ a possibility the group permission of the root level of the drive may not be allowing SD3 to see the files on that level.

jord

But why would that only affect the Logic plugin version Jord? -Maybe I’m missing something (very probably) but didn’t make sense to me the standalone worked fine and the plugin just laughed at me….

[Bear-Faced Cow]

SD3 is loaded within Logic’s sandbox. Logic may not have had the permission. Hard to tell, however, without looking at your file system.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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