The Logic Off Topic list

On 02.01.2006, at 03:08, garygenn wrote:

> Hey Guys, Well I bought a maxtor diamond 300 gb drive to go inside  
> my G5 that has a
> maxtor 250Gb . I want to use this drive for music only . Is there  
> anyhting I should do?  Can I
> Or is it a good idea to move all my music apps to this  Hard drive  
> I.e LP7, reason,live etc.
> thanks fpr any help

Many applications rely on libraries and preferences on the system  
drive. So moving the apps to the second drive does not work properly  
unless you use that drive as your startup drive. But I won't do that  
because then you again record to that system drive, have your samples  
here and two systems to maintain.

You can leave the apps on the current drive and have all audio files  
on the other one: all your songs, samples, IR's, other sound libraries.

Be aware that you might need to reinstall some audio applications/ 
plugins if you don't find a way to tell them the new path to their  
audio files. Aliases work in many cases but not in all. At least do  
not expect to copy files and run as if nothing happened. May need a  
couple of hours. Or days, if you have a lot to reinstall and  
reconfigure. But it is worth the efforts.

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Peter Ostry