Download and unzip the NBPL folder: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s3jqJYjf2nT-bkaZLuI_1jpEWXsOutej/view?usp=drive_link
Place it in: Macintosh HD > Users > Shared
Please download and unzip the installed_products-json file from here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SQVknyv8JuDYel8YBhRfTMaFadqIrkhk/view?usp=drive_link
Place the unzipped json file in the following folder:Macintosh HD > Users > Shared > Native Instruments > installed_products
Restart your computer and open Native Access.
It took me hours to figure this out, but it seems that for MacOS, all "previews" folders within the library folder should be renamed to ".previews". Too bad this post doesn't include this information.
There might be a misunderstanding here. The NPBL, or Preview Library mentioned in this post is a library that needs to be installed separately and contains preview samples of some older libraries. More recent libraries do not need this library because the previews are found in the library folder, which I guess you are refering to.
Not sure what happened on your system but in the case of all the newer libraries, the preview samples are found here and are contained in a folder that is already named .previews and no further action is required for the previews to work in Komplete Kontrol or Kontakt.
The issue is with the app used to extract ZIP files on macOS. The built-in ZIP extraction tool handles files with the ".filename" extension (hidden files on macOS) correctly. However, other apps (such as The Unarchiver, which I'm using) rename them and remove the "." prefix during extraction.
This is great, @Jeremy_NI! Many thanks!
I have all my content on an external SSD, so I just edited the .json file with the pathname for the files on the SSD and it works just fine.
I tried that version and it didn't worked for me
What do you mean by this version? What doesn't work exactly?
I tried to install it as you explain here on that thread and it doesn't work. I tried using Native Access and it failed, I then tried your method (not version), but it didn't work either. I download the files you provided. Moved them to the place you mentioned but unfortunately, it failed. I'm using Tahoe 26.2 and the latest version of the NI plugins. After installing and opening Native Access, I'm left with the option of installing Preview.
Please get in touch with our support then: https://bit.ly/NI_Support_All
If your Native Instruments Library is not in /Macintosh HD/Users/Shared, place the unzipped NBPL into the "Native Instruments" directory where your Native Instruments library is stored.
For instance, the Native Instruments library on an external drive might be located at
/Volumes/YOUR_EXTERNAL_DRIVE/Native Instruments
…where YOUR_EXTERNAL_DRIVE is the name of the external drive containing the Native Instruments library.
THEN, update the unzipped json file, replacing the default path with the path to the NBPL directory, and save it.
After the update in this example, the unzipped json file "Native Browser Preview Library.json" should read:
{"ContentDir":"/Volumes/YOUR_EXTERNAL_DRIVE/Native Instruments/NBPL","ContentVersion":"1.1.0"}
… again, replacing YOUR_EXTERNAL_DRIVE with your external drive name.
Example: I store my Native Instruments library on an external drive called 'T7 4TB'. So, the path to my Native Instruments library on that drive is "/Volumes/T7 4TB/Native Instruments". After I copied the unzipped NBPL directory to that location, I updated the json with the correct value, "/Volumes/T7 4TB/Native Instruments/NBPL". I restarted my Mac, opened Native Access and the problem was solved.
