how to reinstall native instruments to new computer.

mts52 · 2024-01-12T05:16:21+00:00

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In searching for information regarding what to do with Native Instruments when I get my new computer. It appears you have to reinstall on the new computer, however all my Native Instruments content is on external ssd's and I will migrate my old iMac to the new m3 one when it arrives. How can I have all my software registered for the new computer without having to download gigs, and gigs of Library content.

I hope someone has a clue how to achieve this otherwise it looks like a real pain to get all my software licensed on the new computer. And by gigs, and gigs I mean a bucketload of data. Many many Native Instruments products.

thanks in advance!

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reffahcs

Connect your external drive and install NA on your new laptop, and change the content location (and optionally the Application Location) to point to whereever is appropriate depending upon where your external drive is mounted.

Launch Native Access and then "relocate all" There is a chance though that you may have to reinstall some items. But the good news is there's no license transfer required. I'm not sure the limit, but I have the same license installed on my desktop and my laptop. I know for Arturia it's usually 5 devices, I'm not sure about NI though.

https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005720489-Using-the-Repair-Relocate-All-Function-in-Native-Access#h_01GFQ2QZTVQWPTGH9VJTT1A7R4

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reffahcs

https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005720489-Using-the-Repair-Relocate-All-Function-in-Native-Access#h_01GFQ2QZTVQWPTGH9VJTT1A7R4

mts52

@reffacs

Thanks for the speedy reply. Will look at the link you gave me now.

Doesn't seem to answer my question. Are the native access licenses tied to my old computer or are they stored somewhere in settings? Really don't want to download and install all the content as it is all on my external ssd. Will be Migrating to the new iMac so all the plugins, and programs will be there.

Brad Yost

If you read the EULA the installation is limited to three (3) machines.

mts52

@Brad Yost

Had a reply from Native Instruments and it appears I should be ok with using them all on the second computer. It stated I should uninstall everything on the old computer. I will be resetting the old one to an out of box state and gifting it to a relation so no software will remain.

Thanks for your reply.

Davis

I'm hoping for some help regarding this - I put all my instruments on an external hard drive, and connected it to a new computer, which I have NA on, and had transferred everything to the internal hard-drive.

On the internal hard-drive, it was working fine, but I wanted to make space on my computer, so I moved it all to the trash, and tried to re-locate my instruments in the drive from NA. NA was unable to find them, despite all the info being there, and I am now in Demo mode for all instruments. I even moved the stuff out of the trash can, back to the internal hard drive, and it is still in Demo mode.

Would love some help on how to fix this.

I think it would be simplest to just re-download everything onto the external drive, and re-locate it after doing that, but when I tried to re-download an instrument, the option to wasn't available, so I don't want to risk deleting the rest of it, and have it disappear.

Thanks!

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