Native Access is not seeing my external HD with all the NI Instruments

kastokes

New MacBook Pro, Apple M1 Pro, just setting up Logic, and Native Access. I have 3 TB of Native Instrument libraries on an external HD connected to the laptop. I'd hate to try to download everything again! Download location is okay, Application location is okay, but the Content location which is set as Volumes>Music Library>Music (which is where all the individual Native Instrument folders and their stuff is located) - is not being seen my Native Access. Refresh with the content location set is not working. Native Access wants to reinstall everything!

What am I doing wrong? I already have all the libraries and instruments on the external hard drive. Why can't I link them to Native Access? Any help appreciated!

Blindeddie

Maybe this will help!!! (Check Bullet point #4)

Installing Native Instruments Products on a New Computer – Native Instruments (native-instruments.com)

Do note, that the locate is only available for "Content Locations" and not for apps/plugins.. (Kontakt, Reaktor, Battery, Komplete Kontrol, Maschine,Effects, etc) so you will need to install those from scratch since they usually reside on your system drive. (unless you installed on External). The locate "Magnifying Glass" will only appear if it is a Library. The apps programs listed above are not huge, so having to download just those is a small price to pay!!!

"Edit" also does not work for "Expansions" unfortunately. Not sure if there might be a workaround for that... Any MAC users out there have any idea?

Kaiwan_NI

Can confirm that for expansions you'll need to re-download. Check out Jeremy's answer on this post here.

Blindeddie

Maybe this will help!!! (Check Bullet point #4)

Installing Native Instruments Products on a New Computer – Native Instruments (native-instruments.com)

Do note, that the locate is only available for "Content Locations" and not for apps/plugins.. (Kontakt, Reaktor, Battery, Komplete Kontrol, Maschine,Effects, etc) so you will need to install those from scratch since they usually reside on your system drive. (unless you installed on External). The locate "Magnifying Glass" will only appear if it is a Library. The apps programs listed above are not huge, so having to download just those is a small price to pay!!!

"Edit" also does not work for "Expansions" unfortunately. Not sure if there might be a workaround for that... Any MAC users out there have any idea?

Simchris

For my mac systems i used to do symbolic links to trick stuff into using external drive location. Over the years, i gave up that fight. Now, samples go on external drive and all applications, virtual instruments and expansions go on main os drive where they will always work. Highly recommend you just use external drive just for sample libs. Or, you may need to do some hacks like i used to do with symbolic link so that the music folder path redirects yo foldernof same name on external drive. Not sure that helped just some feedback.

Kaiwan_NI

Can confirm that for expansions you'll need to re-download. Check out Jeremy's answer on this post here.

kastokes

Many thanks to all for the help! I was able to “locate” some items, but others are in the download and install que. Cheers 🍻

thegreenman

My installation ran smoothly via NI Access.

The good thing is that you can now move libraries and find several missing 

libraries in a single Relocate action. On my Mac with Ventura 13.5, 

these  were often lost and I had to do it again because the system or most likely NI Access

sometimes renamed the name of an external hard drive from “Ext 1” to “Ext-1” 

without my intervention. In addition, the previews disappeared, 

could not be reassigned the same way as libraries 

and the 8.5 GB had to be reinstalled every time. 

That's a shame, because you don't want to have to do maintenance work again 

when you're finally ready to make music. Maybe it was the Mac 

and you don't have this problem on a PC.

Im on Mac 13.5. Ventura

what can I do to avoid this?

bernsense

Having the same problem. NA won't remember content location. When I click the Repair and then Relocate button, I see the installation path with an additional number at the end of it's name, which I never put there. My external SSD, the original content location, has the correct name. Very annoying, had I just spent hours relocating all my content one by one (about 6TB of data!). Is there a search database or find content command for all wrong paths?