Carrying plugins with license on an external drive

Allec04
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My question is if you can not only load the plugins but also the license on an external drive so i can seemlessly switch between for example my macbook and my windows pc or just whereever im going and start producing?

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  • PoorFellow
    PoorFellow Moderator Posts: 5,330 mod
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    How to Share KONTAKT-Libraries Between Two Computers Using an External Hard Drive

    Quote : Important note for Windows users: Make sure the external drive always gets the same letter assigned by Windows. Otherwise, the KONTAKT libraries will not be found during use.

    Storing Libraries on an External Drive for both Mac and Windows

    We do not recommend storing your libraries and content on an external drive to be used by both a Mac and Windows computer. It may cause performance issues.

    If using Native Instruments software ona Mac and Windows computer, we recommend using separate external drives specifically for each OS.

    For best results, your external drive should be formatted the same as your operating system's native format. These are : Windows ; NTFS , Mac OS X 10.12 and earlier ;HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) . macOS 10.13 and later ; Apple File System(APFS)

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  • PoorFellow
    PoorFellow Moderator Posts: 5,330 mod
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/40692/carrying-plugins-with-license-on-an-external-drive

    Generally speaking it is the best to keep the plugins on the system drive of the computer at the default locations and then only set the Download and the Content destinations to the external drive. Also I am not sure if your Windows programs and the Mac ones necessarily uses the same type of plugins (I don't have a Mac but at least e.g. Pro Tools uses AAX plug-ins) . And I am also not sure that it is a good idea to share the Content drive between two different OS types , if it is possible at all to make it work.

    As for the activation then I think that you can technically share the content drive between two OS' of same type but I think that the content must be installed/located and activated on both OS separately to be used, and also then when you update the software on one computer then I am not sure if it will show as updated on the other and if not then that might also give problems.

  • PoorFellow
    PoorFellow Moderator Posts: 5,330 mod
    Answer ✓

    How to Share KONTAKT-Libraries Between Two Computers Using an External Hard Drive

    Quote : Important note for Windows users: Make sure the external drive always gets the same letter assigned by Windows. Otherwise, the KONTAKT libraries will not be found during use.

    Storing Libraries on an External Drive for both Mac and Windows

    We do not recommend storing your libraries and content on an external drive to be used by both a Mac and Windows computer. It may cause performance issues.

    If using Native Instruments software ona Mac and Windows computer, we recommend using separate external drives specifically for each OS.

    For best results, your external drive should be formatted the same as your operating system's native format. These are : Windows ; NTFS , Mac OS X 10.12 and earlier ;HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) . macOS 10.13 and later ; Apple File System(APFS)

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