Transferring to new Mac – question before copying “Superior3” folder contents

[edwardjc]

Hi, I’m switching over to a new MacBook. Because of some issues in the Home folder on the old Mac I have to copy contents of the home folder over manually instead of restoring from a backup.

I noticed on the NEW computer that some of the files in Library > Application Support > Toontrack > Superior3 area actually larger than their counterparts on the old computer. Specifically these files:

MidiDB

OnlineMidi > MidiDB

Just wanted to clarify what these files contain before copying/replacing on the new computer. Are there any user-created contents in these files, or is it limited to the MIDI files downloaded from Toontrack via the product manager? If it’s the latter, the larger file sizes on the new computer would reflect newer/larger updates that have been downloaded to the new computer via PM, and I won’t replace these files by copying them from the old computer.

On the other hand, if there are MIDI items I’ve created on the old computer that are stored in these files I would want to copy these over and then download updates again via PM.

Looking forward to any clarification you can provide, thanks!

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.3
Operating system: macOS Monterey (12)

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[John]

Hi,

those are just Database files, not containing MIDI. User created MIDI should have been stored in the ‘User MIDI’ folder, which you can open by right-clicking it and select ‘open in Finder/Explorer’. On Mac, this would be located in your ‘Users/username/Music/EZdrummer/’ folder.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Patrik Wall]

The MidiDB file simply contains references (and some associated data) to your installed MIDI libraries, used by the Grooves tab, (including any 3rd party/user libraries/folders), the only reason you would want to copy them over is if you have the exact same folder structure as your old Mac (so that the references are still valid) and you want to keep the state for favorited/starred files in grooves tab.
I would recommend you don’t copy these over since they contain data unique for the system it exist on (these files will be created once you install and run Superior3 on your new Mac).
But, if you have your 3rdparty/user folders in the exact same folder structure as on your old Mac, these MidiDB files would probably work.

So, long story short, you could make a backup of these files and keep somewhere else, install and run SD3 on your new Mac (and add any user folders you want to see in the Grooves tab) and see if you actually miss something, if you do, you could try and replace the MidiDB files with your old and see if that actually works. (If that doesn’t work, you can just remove the files and restart SD3 and it will rebuild them automatically)

Note: You can skip the MidiDB files in OnlineMidi folder entirely.

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[edwardjc]

Thanks very much John and Patrik for your clarification on this

Ed

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