Hi All,
I have installed the Collectors Edition with literally everything (all libraries and instruments and effects) on my primary computer - with all the libraries and expansions on an external drive - and now want to replicate the install on a second machine which I use in another location, then just shuttle the external drive from place to place..
The Contact Libraries were my first port of call and frankly that process was very annoying because each one had to be located individually - because NI hadn't thought to allow relative folder paths. That meant that I had to make in excess of 1,500 mouse clicks.
Now I find that there seems no way of merely telling the second computer where on the external drive the Expansions or Effects are - so I will have to set them all to interminably download.
Am I getting this wrong? Is there a simpler way? Because ever since I entered the NI Universe I have spent WAY more time fiddling with the installs and debugging issues than I have writing music. Am I naive in thinking that a one man band can use this stuff viably, or is it really intended only for studios with a full time technician?