Moving library to new Ext. 1TB SSD(USB3)

[Veedge]

Good morning all. When I first started with SD3, I...

Good morning all. When I first started with SD3, I loaded the software to my internal HD on my MacBook Pro, High Sierra 10.13.3.

3.1 GHz Intel Core i7,

16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3

I loaded the “Basic Sound library Part 1”, and the “Room Mics Part 2”, then the disk was full. I want to move Parts 1 and 2 to the Ext. SSD, delete them from my internal to free it up, point SD3 to the Ext.SSD (I don’t know how to do that either), and then continue downloading the remaining parts.

The Ext. SSD also is Thunderbolt 2. I will be connecting using the Thunderbolt 2 connection for speed for the downloads but when using SD3, I will be using the USB3 port. I only have (2) Thunderbolt 2 ports and when I’m running my DAW and other stuff, I will need those.

Please advise as to how to do this. Thank you.

Good morning all. When I first started with SD3, I loaded the software to my internal HD on my MacBook Pro, High Sierra 10.13.3.

3.1 GHz Intel Core i7,

16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3

I loaded the “Basic Sound library Part 1”, and the “Room Mics Part 2”, then the disk was full. I want to move Parts 1 and 2 to the Ext. SSD, delete them from my internal to free it up, point SD3 to the Ext.SSD (I don’t know how to do that either), and then continue downloading the remaining parts.

The Ext. SSD also is Thunderbolt 2. I will be connecting using the Thunderbolt 2 connection for speed for the downloads but when using SD3, I will be using the USB3 port. I only have (2) Thunderbolt 2 ports and when I’m running my DAW and other stuff, I will need those.

Please advise as to how to do this. Thank you.

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[Veedge]

Thank you but I don’t know where to find it on my internal hard drive.

[Henrik Ekblom]

Veedge wrote:

Thank you but I don’t know where to find it on my internal hard drive.

Henrik Ekblom wrote:

Click the menu, and Show in Finder Now you have the sounds folder SL-SuperiorDrummer3 shown; copy it to your external drive

Did you follow that step in my instructions? If so, you copied the folder to your external drive, e.g. that’s where it’s placed.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

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[Veedge]

Up there in another post #2432302 I put up another screen shot. That’s the internal HD Path. What do I highlight and what do I delete? All parts are installed and linked successfully to my external SSD and work.

[Henrik Ekblom]

As John said, if you first installed the core library with the default settings, it should be placed in:

• {Mac HD}/Library/Application Support/Superior Drummer/

In there, the SL-SuperiorDrummer3 is placed, and that’s the folder that is the sound library, e.g. the folder that you can delete.

• Before you delete that folder on your internal drive, you can rename it to test_SL-SuperiorDrummer3 or something else. If SD3 then works correctly after a restart with the folder renamed, it means that the folder isn’t used, e.g. can be deleted.

 

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

• This post was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by Henrik Ekblom.

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[Veedge]

John and Henrik,  I did what you said and renamed the folder test_SL(ect.), did the restart and SD3 worked perfectly connected to the EXT. SSD. I then deleted that folder on my internal. Thank you both for all of your help.

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[Wolfhard Schurat]

The conversation so far shows the whole chaos related to the file management. Toontrack is otherwise a cool company. And the installation and authorization process has become a very fool proof procedure by now. Other than the nightmare that you can experience elsewhere where the honest paying customers are harassed like idiots by companies that seem to want to scare them off into piracy, where everything seems a lot easier.
So my appreciation comes first, because mainly I am very satisfied with the self explanatory system and the Support.

But there is and has always been the one exception. The file management. It never worked easily and in most of the cases not at all. My MacBook has a tiny ssd and Installation is not possible without external storage. And moving it if necessary is just a nerve boiling nightmare filled with message boxes, errors and stuff like. I stopped using SDrummer on my MacBook. Simply surrendered. Too complicated. I am a musician, not a programmer. Right?

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.6
Operating system: macOS Big Sur (11)

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