So, a while ago I got fed up with reinstalling terrabytes of data every time I moved machines, so I got myself an external hard drive and installed all my NI libraries on it. Now I just plug it into whatever machine I'm using and bingo. Or at least it used to be.
Just setting up a new machine as my old laptop died. However, seems like I can no longer point maschine to the factory library location. In battery, I can load the library as a user folder and then all the content shows up in the users area, but in maschine if i do the same thing, says I need to activate the kits through native access.
Neither seems to offer a relocate like with Kontakt, and there is no option in NA to activate a library without installing it via download. I'm trying to avoid downloading everything again. That's the whole point here.
I appreciate that for developers who live in a major city with fast internet as the norm this seems wierd, but I live in a yurt on a hillside in rural Spain and run off of a 4g internet connection. I don't want to max out my entire month's internet data on downloading a bunch of libraries I already have sitting on a hard drive. What's the fix here?
Cheers,
Jonathan.
