The "Locate Product Content" in Native Access 2 is a welcome addition but did not find most content.
I just installed a new motherboard and CPU into my PC. I did a fresh Windows 11 install to make sure there were old drivers kicking around. I'm going through the process of re-locating /installing all of my NI libraries and it's still a bit of a nightmare.
I used the "Locate Product Content" feature in Native Access 2 but it only found a few libraries. While this is a nice addition to the content manager I still had to re-download over 190 products despite having all the content installed on a secondary 4TB internal HDD. It's been around 12 hours now after leaving it running overnight and it's still working.
I don't go through this process often, I only update my CPU every few years to try and keep up with the increasing demand of audio apps and plugins. But, I would like to see this feature improved so that it can find anything that is not a plugin or application that needs to be re-installed in future versions.
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Locate All works great.
But only really on Kontakt based instrument libraries.
It will not find Expansions, actual apps, plugins etc. Always has been like this since these software types cannot be “located”. They need to be installed from scratch.
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what probably happened is as you installed a new motherboard , you probably had to install the os and apps again , which broke the link between them , the libraries and native access , more so than if you just moved the libraries to a different location , probably because native access doesn’t know they’ve been installed in the first place.
Not to be judgmental, but what you should of done is back up your system, and installed from that , I don’t use windows , but on my mac I’d use a Time Machine back up , if , say , I reformatted my drive , (closest thing on a Mac that compares to replacing the MB on a pc , lol )
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If you used 'Locate all' and if it still works the same way as it once did (Not sure , just writing this in case that that is the problem) then it might stop locating if it encounters an error but you might be able to locate the individual Kontakt library products one at a time if the problem is that the Locate all stops due to experiencing an error , which of course is a lot of work in itself.
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I have a backup but I wanted a fresh install. The old system disk was clogged up with years of unnecessary files, drivers, registry entries etc. I was also moving from 10 to 11 since my new CPU needs Windows 11 for the P/E core processor scheduling and I didn't want stuff carrying over from the old 10 install. That has caused me BSOD issues in the past.
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yeah that makes sense , kinda want to do a fresh install myself, but don’t want to have to go through the download/reinstall of everything
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It would be less of a headache if NI would develop a way for Native Access to install them without re-downloading the content if it exists on a secondary drive on the machine. Not sure why they decided each Kontakt library needs to be installed as its own application in Windows.
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It isn't a headache and there is a way.
I did not re-download a single thing "content based" during my last full rebuild (Feb 2024).
Simply installed the latest version of NA (Circa Feb 2024) and then used Locate for each existing library still present on a former drive and Native Access found it all perfectly.
VP
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Did you go through and select each library's root folder? Or the root folder of the directory they were all stored? I tried doing the root of the location where all my libraries were stored and it only found a few.
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As I recall - you need to do this:
For each library. I did not say this was perfect. It was painful AND NA did not have a Locate All back in Feb 2024. So I needed to click Locate on each library in NA - point NA to it's "root" (as above) and all was well.
Probably took 10 minutes to hack thru it but it was way better than hours of repopulation via fresh download.
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If anyone has similar issues and the Locate All does not work as expected please get in touch with our support here: https://bit.ly/NI_support_NA
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