Disappearing Libraries

The journey with the Native Access and its library management has been unpleasant, to say the least. Buying premium products and paying a premium price one would expect more care taken. Why would some content be missing in my projects, one day out of the blue? Nothing has changed on my side apart from updating your apps!
Is Kontakt 6.x.x is such a legacy product already, that will drop support for some libraries? I own Kontakt 7 too, but never thought I should go through all my projects and swap version of Kontakt player? Why would Noir Piano Library go AWOL in Kontakt 6???

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Jeremy_NI

Some of the Kontakt libraries have been updated and broke compatibilty with Kontakt 6, we compiled installers for previous versions here: Previous versions of recently updated Kontakt libraries / compatibility with K6 older libraries

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Hackej

Hi!

I have read the info regarding legacy versions and also did a manual installation of Session Guitarist Electric Mint with sucess, it is now working in K5 + K6 + K7. But it is installed into the default Content folder defined Native Acess 2, there was no way of changing content location during manual installation.

So now I want to move the content to a specific Legacy K5/K6 folder and then re-install the newer version to be used by K7. So how do I do that in the best way?

Is there really no way of changing to a custom location during the installation?
I tried to change the content location in Native Access prior to manual installation but that did not have any effect during the installation.

And what happens if I use Native Access to install legacy version now and there is a update later on, I assume the old legacy version will be overwritten?
How to keep the legacy version intact over time in the best way?

Regards
/Hackej

Jeremy_NI

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/173893#Comment_173893

You can move the product after installation: Moving a Native Instruments Product to Another Location on Your Computer

Unfortunately you can't really have 2 versions of the same library installed. You will have to stick with either the oldes version that can open in Kontakt 6 and Kontakt 7 or update to the latest version and only use Kontakt 7. We understand this is not ideal and we are working on solutions to improve the workflow.

If you are using Logic or Cubase you can use the automigration feature, unfortunately not all DAWs enable this functionality yet. Notes about Auto-Migration of Kontakt Versions in DAW Projects

Hackej

Hi!

Thanks for quick reply.

Wouldn't it work if you just made the "legacy" versions of these libraries as separate "legacy libraries",
with separate name for folders and files, separate entries in registry etc.?

In the same/similar way as for "Factory library" vs "Factory Selection Library"…!?

Like "Session Guitarist - Electric Mint Legacy" vs "Session Guitarist - Electric Mint"

/Hackej

Jeremy_NI

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/173920#Comment_173920

No, that wouldn't work, it's the files themselves that matter not the folders and there can't be 2 different versions of a given library activated at the same time.

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