A single Content Folder is not enough (if you have more than one SSD)

catch-22
catch-22 Member Posts: 101 Helper
edited October 2024 in Native Access

Hi,

I (probably) need more than one content folder. Native Access is always using that sole content folder path i specified in the settings. If i set that path to a folder on SSD-1 but want to install a new library to SSD-2 i have to move that file manually after installing it and relocate it. This is really bad since my libaries are often very large.

How i'm supposed to do that without the need to move things around?

Thanks

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  • PoorFellow
    PoorFellow Moderator Posts: 6,684 mod
    edited May 2024
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/30008/a-single-content-folder-is-not-enough-if-you-have-more-than-one-ssd

    I think that you can install some of it (don't click install all) and then before starting to install the rest then you just switch the Content drive setting in Native Access and then it should be able to deal with that provided that you are not switching in the middle of downloading something and each download are finished on the drives.

    Quote LostInFoundation :

    Of course. If you already installed them, you can move them in the external drive and then in Native Access relocate them. If you still have to install them, in Native Access settings you can specify the new installation path for the new installations.

    Have a look also at this thread with a good suggestion from Rich_NI to locate the moved library without having to do them one by one: Moving content library to an external hard drive

  • catch-22
    catch-22 Member Posts: 101 Helper

    @PoorFellow

    They should add a prompt that asks for a folder to install a product into. That prompt should allow for multiple root folders (install multiple products in these 'root' folders) as well as individual ones (install a single library in a specific folder). I'm talking about locations for large sample libraries here.

  • Vocalpoint
    Vocalpoint Member Posts: 3,754 Expert
    edited May 2024

    What size SSD are we talking about here?

    My libraries are on a 2TB and will take me another year or two to fill that. And I am rocking Komplete 14 Ultimate here.

    VP

  • PoorFellow
    PoorFellow Moderator Posts: 6,684 mod
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/152524#Comment_152524

    I am not a N.I. employee and N.I. programmers do not listen more to me than they do you. While I appreciate your wishes then I have to say that I don't think that that's ever going to happen. The best that will happen along the lines of what you wish I think would be a space calculator / monitor that would pop up if it thought that you had not enough space and then asked for an alternative destination for the rest of your installing. But I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for something like that to happen either if I were you. If you have any wishes then the best is to participate in some of the discussions that N.I. employees has been seen to open sometimes in the forum.

    As space management then I am with VocalPoint on that one : Get a larger drive/get larger drives. Hard drive prices has plummeted compared to earlier even for SATA SSD , which admittedly a lot of users here finds too poor after the arrival of NVME SSD. At this point in time then even a SATA Samsung 870 EVO SSD 2TB is not more than around EUR 200.

    Anyway then feature wise I think that Native Access is progressing greatly and has become a great app , at least in theory, what we really need now is not more features like what you ask for but that the whole setup becomes a lot more stable for the users that at the moment has been struck with that their stuff suddenly says Demo or whatever..

  • catch-22
    catch-22 Member Posts: 101 Helper

    I'd need to restructure my library and buying new hardware is expensive. I don't think a single application should dictate how i organize my files. There is also load balancing with multiple drives.

  • Vocalpoint
    Vocalpoint Member Posts: 3,754 Expert
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/152648#Comment_152648

    Load balancing? This is not a SQL Server or something - it's a set of static files on a SSD/NVMe drive.

    And drives are cheap - really sorry if this is a sore spot for you.

    As it stands right now - NA uses a single data location that seems to have worked just fine for literally years for all of us.

    If a single 2TB drive doesn't cut it for you - consider using a tool like DrivePool from StaticBit to create a "single" pool of infinite size and point NA to that.

    This entire "challenge" is easily solved - but without an acknowledgment from you that you will need to get some new drives - there is little point in debating this further.

    VP

  • Smokey63
    Smokey63 Member Posts: 7 Newcomer

    On this very topic, I have a question though: I currently have all my NI software, plug-ins etc. on the 2TB internal harddrive of my iMac 24 (running the latest MacOS version).

    If I now what to move all of that NI installation to an external drive (I have a 5TB ready for this) - do I need to completely re-install NI (which takes many hours) or do I just move the files to the external drive and than do what ?

    I am relatively new to NI (love the stuff though) - so sorry if I am asking a simple question - but is the answer equally simple ?

    Thanks for any help !

    MA

  • Vocalpoint
    Vocalpoint Member Posts: 3,754 Expert
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/159588#Comment_159588

    You will need to use "Locate" within NA - AFTER you make your moves.

    Depending on how many libraries are moved - you could be here for a while.

    The old version of NA had a cool feature called Locate All. That is still coming back to the latest version of NA (3.11) - for now you will need to Locate - one at a time. Painful I know.

    VP

  • Smokey63
    Smokey63 Member Posts: 7 Newcomer

    Thank you VP ! I will do that

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