How about a "Locate all" function in Native Access?

QWER2580 · 2022-12-07T13:21:50+00:00

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All of my libraries are on another drive. It'd be sweet if when you reinstall, you only need to click once for the installer to find all of my software by pointing to a root folder. Right now it still looks like you're sitting there manually pointing to each plugin in Komplete for an hour or two.

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Jeremy_NI

A locate all function is in the backlog. It will come in a future update.

sickvisionz

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/145610#Comment_145610

My OS was on drive 1 and my library content was installed on drive 2. Drive 1 crashed and when I replaced it, decided to buy another M.2 SSD to finally put all my drive 2 content on a faster drive. Installed my OS again on new drive 1 and moved all my drive 2 content to new drive 2. When I installed Native Access, that's when I came across the lack of a "Locate All" and that I'd have to go through like 200 folders one-by-one.

Anyways, for people seeing this in the future: https://github.com/sickvisionz/Native-Instruments-Linker. You can be proud to have wasted 3 or 4 hours clicking like a robot in Native Access or you can spend those 3 or 4 hours making music. The choice is up to you.

Hopefully NI can get on the ball and implement this. It really isn't difficult, especially if you have the source code like they do. There's really no reason that can't at least add a smarter auto-locate once you tell Native Access the root folder. It's literally just registry edits or implementing whatever function they do when users click the "Locate" button, but the software changes the folder path variable on it's own. None of this is rocket science. Or something that takes going on two years to implement.

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Paule

If you change your organisation of your libraries to one drive it's possible.

There is no AI inside of NA which can read your mind to use different drives.

QWER2580

Yeah duhhh... when you locate pre-installed plugins you need to do it one by one. Clicking on each one at a time.

It would be very easy for NI to include a feature for Native Access to look for the libraries for all of your plugins in a folder you point to only once, not a hundred times like you now have to do.

I mean, Kontakt already does this. You can just tell it to read through your library folder and all of your Kontakt libraries show up automatically. You don't need AI and definitely not reading anyone's mind for this, simple scripting will do.

Jeremy_NI

A locate all function is in the backlog. It will come in a future update.

QWER2580

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/43636#Comment_43636

Thank you very much, happy to hear this 😊

sunbambino

Could we please, please PLEASE have this Relocate All function

sunbambino

Jeremy, could you update us on this?

LostInFoundation

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/63461#Comment_63461

When they say “is planned. It will come in a future update”…sit down and start relaxing…a loooot 😂

Jeremy_NI

@sunbambino @LostInFoundation It is in the backlog, there are just a lot the developers plate and there is no defined date to share at the moment. I believe there will be a dev talk this Thursday about Native Access and it's future and Hayo will share more insight.

LostInFoundation

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/63492#Comment_63492

Thank you for the news

sunbambino

Jeremy, I appreciate the update n look forward to hearing Hayo's news, plz keep us posted.

electro rocket

Bump! I fresh install my OS every year or two and this is the worst part! Please!

orionvalencia

Well, it's August and we still don't have it. I also format my OS drive every year or so and this is a nightmare, having to "locate" each library for hours. Please make this a reality 😭

LostInFoundation

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/88898#Comment_88898

As I said, sit down and start relaxing. “We still don’t have it” makes no sense. Even if they say “it’s in the backlog”, don’t expect it to come in the order of months. With NI I would be already happy if it will come before next year…thing that I doubt

DBMC

This makes no sense! I had to reinstall Windows. All libraries (209) were/are on external hard drive in one folder named NI_libraries Native Access 2 requires that I either:

1) Reinstall everything, including re-download. It is automated but long duration and wastes bandwidth

2) "Locate" each specific drive for each product

"Relocate All" is only available after you reinstall or relocate each folder individually.

Why is this simple fix to scan the from the parent directory through the children and re-register "Relocate" everything?

Fritz von Flotow

Absolutely! Fix this, as it is an absolute nightmare to have to go to my huge library manual one by one!

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