Loaded new Native Access on my new computer and no samples play on old Logic projects

gonesavage

Hello,

I just got a new Mac mini 4 and I loaded Native Access 3.17.0. I was previously working on an old iMac with an older version of Komplete, Native Access, Kontakt etc. I saved all the libraries on an external drive before scrapping that machine many months ago for a long distance move. When I was setting up on the new Mac mini, I used the Locate function to point it to the libraries that I already had on my external drive. This worked for many, but the Locate option wasn't available on several instruments and applications despite their libraries still being on my external drive. I did the Locate step on what I could, then I updated just a few of the instruments - Analog Dreams, Ashlight, Pharlight. It gave me a message that Kontakt needed to be updated to update those and I agreed to both.

Everything works fine in new projects however, when I went to open old projects, no tracks from Komplete were playable on those old projects - neither the libraries I updated nor ones that I hadn't even updated yet. From reading closed threads it sounds like this is because I downloaded Kontakt 8. Is that correct? I also saw from other threads that I should download old versions of these libraries in order for them to play in my old projects. Do I delete the version I have or download these old libraries in addition to what I already have? Will uninstalling Kontakt 8 start me fresh and allow me to have useable tracks on those old projects again?

I'm not sure which step that I did was wrong and what the best way to backtrack is.

I'm on Sequoia 15.2. I just loaded everything onto this brand new computer so if there is a better order of operations that involves restoring to factory settings and starting again, please let me know. Thank you so much for any help and guidance you can provide. I'm not the savviest with this stuff, so please let me know anything I have missed.

red_nick

You can have Kontakt (6), Kontakt 7 and Kontakt 8 all installed independently. DAWs won't usually automatically upgrade from one major number to the next, so you'll need whichever of those you had installed before too.

gonesavage

I have both 6 and 8 installed currently on the new machine. I was using 6 on my previous computer so I'm not sure why the old samples still aren't playable now. Any other thoughts?