The BEST way to move Logics Sound Library to external hard drive

[@misterbenuk]

For anyone coming to this video in 2024, there's now a built in option in the top navigation. Logic Pro > Sound Library > Relocate Sound Library

[@clickitysplit]

Thanks - this is much easier and works with Logic 11.

[@nicolasetcheverry4129]

This doesn’t always work which is why he created this video

[@zizwemusic7688]

Worked for me! Thanks buddy

[@OneThirdEmcee]

You're a God send.

[@GREATMUSIC4U-p3v]

Relocate Sound Library is grayed out (2024, latest Logic version).

[@christiandavisproductions]

the way you've singlehandedly solved two issues that have been eating me alive all week.... i can't thank you enough

[@francissreckofabian01]

I wonder what the reasons are for the thumbs down? Very odd. A helpful, non controversial subject. People are strange (as "poet" Jim Morrison once said).

[@boojackhorseman]

dry hate m8

[@gorgan1010]

Thumbs down are from trolls, never mind them... very helpful video

[@Slesaint17]

its probably bots.

[@UncleCatfish]

@@Slesaint17 trolls, bots, or people who cant follow simple instructions or skimmed the video and deleted something lol ... idiots basically

[@Jed411Jedhed]

EXCELLENT ..worked perfectly. One note though..Exiting 'Terminal' ..hit 'Terminate' to exit ..NOT Cancel.

[@cesmcmyth]

Reading the comments to find this, exactly. But....how to, or where is that "terminate" that should be hit?

[@emaespinozabeats3355]

where is the "terminate" ???

[@badgepolitnikoff621]

Great help! After getting a new external drive, I moved all my Logic sound library content to the new drive, stupidly forgetting that I should have done it within Logic using the "Logic Pro X \ Sound Library \ Relocate Sound Library" command. When Logic inevitably couldn't find the sound library files, rather than download and install them all again to the new location, I went hunting. Twenty-plus KZbin videos, websites, and forum posts later...I found this, which actually gave me exactly what I needed! Bravo!!

[@llrl1061]

Cool I had a similar problem too after applied "Logic Pro X \ Sound Library \ Relocate Sound Library" command and download everything to an external drive, I had once forgot to plug the external drive when opening Logic Pro. It started to re-download all the things and I couldn't relocate the external drive path. It seems I can have this fix using the instruction in this tutorial :) Will try later.

[@Switchkillaa]

@@llrl1061 Did it work? I'm trying this tomorrow on a friends system. He moved all his files onto an external RAID through logic and now the sounds aren't coming up.

[@chhmo9851]

Now THAT'S what I call one of the best tutorials I've ever watched. EDIT: There is an easier way WITHOUT the terminal. After copying and deleting the files, you go to your external hard drive, you right click on the copied file, you click on "create alias", then you copy the alias to your application support and delete it on your hard drive. That's it! The terminal way isn't wrong, but it works way faster than without

[@Adarkjet]

It does NOT as of Logic 10.5

[@chhmo9851]

Adarkjet oh ok but does it work with the terminal command?

[@lankowlllyk]

Usually, yes this would work. But Logic periodically has system updates so simply creating an alias is not advanced enough to cut it; that is where symbolic links come in to play, replacing the aliases with a much more complex alias that can handle these updates.

[@slaayyr6720]

Bruhh!! You Straight Legit!! I had been lookin through other vids trying different ways over and over again and nothin would wrk it had me thinkn the new high sierra update patched it or somethin but luckily i found your vid and your method works!! Thanks a lot!

[@TommyLellan]

Jesus Mary and Joseph, this was perhaps the most helpful video of all time. Can I buy you lunch? Dinner? Pay off your mortgage? THANK YOU! Sincerely, MacBook Air user.

[@whiskytango6073]

know what you say dude you'll be surprised if he suddenly stay at your front door. Anywayzzz this dude deserves to be treated (y) but he deserves to be treated

[@emmanuelbonilla4375]

Yess!!

[@DJMinxDetroit]

Life saver! Thank you SO much for the clear, concise instructions. Appreciate it!

[@lehamjayofficial1117]

I just need to say THANK YOU!! This video has helped me over and over again because my computer has crashed my links to my hard drive numerous times

[@kiwiradioNZ]

WOW This has been a GAMECHANGER for saving hard drive space for LOGIC - thanks dude!

[@youllfigureitoutb]

Literally just bought an external hard drive today. You the goat

[@csvscs]

Lieberry

[@stevenbeck10]

🤣

[@MrSTAYUP33]

seriously

[@voicetube]

That reminds me, now that I have an iPhone, I no longer have use for a Blackbrary! :-) Okay, kidding aside in case the dude who created this video reads this comment, I'm sure you've taken enough heat for your pronunciation of library - I want to tell you that this was an EPIC video and extremely helpful! Rock on!

[@bpmac123]

​@@voicetube"I'm a music mogul" (important person in the music industry??) When I hear Lie-Berry in a KZbin video the credibility factor takes a hit.

[@voicetube]

@@bpmac123 Agreed

[@adamdutchdurham6771]

Worked for me. If you are doing this with other folders such as Native Instruments that have two words involved, be sure to make sure \ is after first word just like in the terminal window.

[@edshaw3973]

Legend!

[@co_dy-i5q]

Good catch! Just to expand on this for those who are curious, the '\' is the 'escape' character in Linux. It tells the terminal to interpret the character after it as literally (as ASCII) instead of as a command, flag, option, etc... Play around with it in the terminal by using special characters with and without it in front of them As an alternative, i believe you could use an underscore to fill the space betwixt words as well

[@xwinger15]

I did this ages ago with logic and also with my iTunes library and iPhone backups. It works flawlessly.

[@imamusicmogul]

Symbolic links are amazing 🙌

[@bharathirajae]

Excellent one! Got rid of low space issues, instantly....

[@Wizardatwill]

Dope video!! its a must to do!! Thank you for sharing! enjoy the rest of the day and keep up the good work!

[@imamusicmogul]

Definitely a must do. It’s better to keep on superstar drive plus saves up a lot of space.

[@Wizardatwill]

check your Instagram dm bruh!! thanx for everything!

[@Wizardatwill]

I also do this for my kontakt library too!! tons of space saved!

[@DarkandTwisted]

@@Wizardatwill Hey Wiz. How do you do it for Kontakt Library? Any tutorials?

[@TimotheeDuport]

My english too bad to tell you how grateful I am !! Many thanks from France !!

[@graememiller3897]

This older boring video might be my favourite lol. Nothing like the gift of peace of mind 🧘‍♂️

[@prateekbaral]

thank you soo much bro, this trick actually changed my life thank you 😇

[@ChrisMartius]

I am the nr. 3000 thinking that this is a good video. Great work. Thanks for it.

[@soulfreemuzik]

Brilliant!!! Used this method to move more folders and created more space. Thank you

[@Automaticdonut]

Really great video. Very simple straight forward and clean. Thanks much!

[@argiebargie]

Thank you so much for this!! I've been trawling the internet trying to find this for hours using a simple "make alias" link You're a star, thank you :)

[@dahal.bibek99]

I have also faced the same problem that was damn too much frustrating, finally i got solution for that. just go to Sound library and reallocate it your SSD and download it there. It will take 5-10 hours. After downloading it create symlink file in ssd and paste to Application support folder in your internal hard drive and reopen and reindex all your loops. Do same for Apple loop in its own directory. And again reinstall your logic pro with dmg file. Now you will see all loops get installed.

[@richdubose2530]

Thank you, man! Your directions are super clear and I was able to follow thru and make it happen. Greatly appreciated. I subscribed for any other goodies you may have.

[@martintubadiey1300]

THANKS MAN YOU SAVED ME FROM LOADS OF WORRIES...

[@nodira_filmcomposer]

Yey! Thanks so much! I was frustrated with this issue for a few days

[@Yxshlive]

Thanks bud !! Helped a lot

[@AmitJohnMF]

Much appreciate it man. Love from India!

[@bludogg]

Awsome tutorial! Sure saved some room on my Macbook Pro drive! Thanks a Bunch!!

[@megabyte01]

Question: what is the performance difference between working with your music library on an external hard drive versus the internal drive? What kinds of drives and connections did you use? What are the sizes of the sound libraries you use? I'm helping a friend port his growing music collection to a larger and faster external drive.

[@Ces911]

It has to be an SSD

[@otlmusik5]

Can this also Be done with sounds from a VST?

[@OlivesCaleb]

This is truly the best way! Thank you man!

[@devonthorson5944]

This worked perfectly in Big Sur. Thanks!

[@astro0041]

how do you do this for your omnisphere library? if you want your omnisphere library on your external hard drive, can you please do a video for that?

[@gotwaves4999]

did you figure it out? lol I just got Omnisphere this week, and I'm nervous as hell about this STEAM Folder

[@Sheeshanagii]

@@gotwaves4999 tht shit is a bitch i literally using like 60gb on a ssd and the other 60gb on mac smh ... give me my space back bih

[@lankowlllyk]

I have run my Omisphere 2 library off my external drive for two years now.. You need to download the initial install on your internal but the massive library can be directed to an external drive. Not sure if I remember correctly but upon installing it may give an option as to where you would like to install the library in a drop down window and you would select your desired external drive. I don't believe i had to create symlinks.

[@yohjimasamoto6164]

Great Video! What happens in u remove the harddrive, for example when u take ur setup to another studio? What happens if u open a project without your harddrive connected? Thanks!

[@victorhugod387]

Thank you so much, this is from Nov 2020. I made a small mistake then I did again and now is working properly !!

[@gustafgrawert]

Cool Video! Thank you man, easy and quick explanation!

[@simzkulla4962]

Super short, and Super helpful. Hola

[@awolfe3605]

Your like the Bob Ross of Logic and Music production 😎

[@Preston_Rowe]

Thanks! also FYI, if you don't have the external drive in when you run logic and it creates a new logic folder, you must repeat the last step

[@MarkSamuelsOfficial]

Amazing tutorial! Thank you brother!

[@vinodhsinger]

Hey all my logic stammers when ever I try to play with Vsts. Is it becoz of the relocation I have done to an external drive ?

[@MichaelMaysMusicMinistries]

You are THE MAN. Thanks so much for this!

[@regnifelrub]

Danke!

[@MondroMusic]

Thanks Adam! This was very helpful

[@ethanroode8637]

thank the lord, all the other articles were so confusing

[@HingdranataNikolay]

Very helpful, buddy! Thanks!

[@aannucci]

This video was super-helpful. Thanks so much!

[@DarkandTwisted]

Awesome video. Thank you, bro! One question. Do you have a video explaining how you can add another sound libraries to externals such as if I install Nexus? I hear you can have ALL of your sounds from all programs on external drives to save space. Am I making any sense? lol

[@KevinP-i4k]

This didn't work for me. I'm not sure what to do with the terminal window, someone below posted an update on that but it never seemed to work. Any help would be appreciated

[@lancek753]

Solid! Best way to date.

[@zizwemusic7688]

Thank you so very much for this. Helped.

[@AdamFraserTv]

I wish there was a video this good explaining how to do this on PC

[@bothendzburning]

Oh hell yeah. I cant be more grateful for this. thank you

[@WE100INTHESOUTH]

ABSOLUTLY AMAZING! THANKS!

[@FarazNayyerOfficial]

Thanks a lot dude :)

[@SpiramusPresents]

You're the man!!! Can't thank you enough!!!!

[@laurajoycedavis1979]

I followed these steps, but when I go back to Application Support, I don't see the Logic folder there. Any ideas?

[@cobeat6727]

i just had the same problem, heres an other way. kzbin.info/www/bejne/amTQeHyqhNR9f68

[@samiamalikmusic]

did you solve this I have the same issue

[@soundfonts8215]

Life saver my man, thanks so much

[@arnabchakrabortyofficial]

Hi. Thanks for the video. What happens when Apple Updates the Library Content ?

[@rovgadgy4788]

you can just download the new content and it will automatically go on to the logic folder on your hard drive

[@Allante]

Thank you so much. Now I can. get back to making music!

[@TheDeliveryDoctor]

Timely solution. Just about to dive back into sound and leaning heavily towards Logic Pro. But have been on the fence due to little space left on my 500Gb SSD. I have enough for the app and some wiggle room, but not enough for the sound library - not even to download. Question: Is it possible to instal the Sound Library directly to an external SSD drive, bypassing the download to internal drive?

[@ssr9669]

You saved a lot of space man!!

[@jastinartis]

So this was a great video and everything looks good! But when I open my plugin-manager via Logic - all that content says "incomplete." so do I just install? or restart Mac LOL - update: well after writing that - I didn't realize the demo song I was playing was Logic sounds. And I opened up Logic strings and it worked. So Idk why it shows them as incomplete in the sound library manager but it WORKS! so - if I wanted to move the Logic App to my SSD what's the best way?? you have a video on that? lol

[@txilibrist]

I have had the Logic 7.2 sound library on an external disk (40GB) for a long time, and effectively the Logic alias from the Applicatin support redirects me to the external disk. But after using Logic with the alias correctly, and reopening Logic, this alias disappears, and in its place the original folder appears again with the minimum, 210 MB. What's going on?

[@AnayaMusicProduction]

awesome tutorial thanks

[@blaze8511]

Yo Adam, I plan on doing this soon for my home studio but do I need to have my external hard drive on me at all times? cause I have a Mac but it's the laptop not desktop. So would I need to carry around my hard drive all around the house or any places I go every time I use logic lol?

[@JamesDel]

Thank you, very helpful!

[@MyChannel-h6x]

help.. when I restart my laptop, my sound library re-downloads send help

[@cookingman8709]

did you ever figure it out?

[@nabanana1833]

this happens to me when I forgot to plug in the external drive when opening logic

[@thestylesworld]

Thanks for the tutorial. Can we do it in an older macbook having Mac OS Lion 10.7.5 with Logic Pro 9?

[@regnifelrub]

This video is priceless! Thank you a lot!! 🙂

[@dek10157]

Can I get some help? It’s saying Logic Content/Logic is a Directory and it doesn’t make the link

[@SIVABALAN.V.S]

Great man. But one doubt ?. When our Mac disk is full, then _ _ GB of our logic sound libraries created as shortcut when we connect our externel hardrive then it will show like your disk is full ? Sorry I don't know English grammar perfectly.......

[@Supreme.Identity]

Tnx for the video but I still have a question. Right now my sample packs and finished projects are saved on 1 external hard drive. If I use these files, lets say to make a drum kit in the EXS24, Logic remembers that does files come from this drive. Now the problem is that if something would happen to this drive I would lose all my samples etc. because Time Machine only makes backups of my internal drive. My plan was to buy a second hard drive and Carbon Copy Cloner to make it back up automatically. My question is, will Logic Pro X find those samples on the copied drive just as it would on the original drive? Stated differently, does Logic treed the back up drive like the original because it's an exact copy of this original drive? Because if that's not the case I have to manually add all the files again to the drum kits I made in the EXS24. I also won't be able to open a project unless I manually select all the sounds used in that project. Is their somebody in the comments who has an answer on this question?

[@ayospvceman]

What do we do with the open terminal window?

[@mgelinfilms7344]

I did this years ago... then when apple added the ability to do it directly by just choosing the menu option to use an external (I think 2019), I did that. But since then, I have noticed that, when my external is plugged in, the computer still indicates that the logic pro library is on the internal AND USING THE SPACE. When I eject the external (which contains the library), space (98GB) shows up on my internal drive.... So... I think that by having done this procedure, you are showing here, years ago, it is somehow confusing the system (probably because of what was written into the terminal) into thinking that the logic library is using space on the internal, whenever the external (that actually holds the library now) is plugged in... How can I get this to stop happening?

[@mathenoo]

did you manage to work this out? same thing happening to me here.

[@mgelinfilms7344]

@@mathenoo No. No one has ever been able to offer a resolution.

[@Rcortel]

Awesome! Thanks a lot! Been having issues with Big Sur in relocating files! Godbless!

[@WhatHappensWhenIt]

HELP!!!! I followed all these steps and check it to make sure everything was kosher. But when I went to close the "Terminal", its saying "do you want to terminate running processes in this window?, Closing this window will terminate the running processes: bash, sudo.".....huh?...what? Do I hit TERMINATE or nah??....ps great content as usual !!!

[@carldicksson3979]

Hello Adam! Thanks for the video, how do you export your Native Instrument Library or Omnisphere to your external hard drive?

[@spincoke]

Thanks so much for your help. This worked perfectly. :)

[@cchetts]

Really help! Thank you!!

[@emmanuelbonilla4375]

Perfectooo! Subbed with this one Vid. Truly see value in Content. Does this process apply the same with Spectrasonics and any other large Apps/Plugins/VST? Cheers!!

[@stephenfrancis3111]

Hi I was following your steps but permission denied..

[@TheOriginalacab21]

Ur amazing man thank for uploading this video it’s dope and very very helpful

[@morrismills3518]

Awesome video ,is it the same with Protools?

[@maikelavila2408]

Like crystal explanation, Thanks.

[@TrendsetterTvcom]

Your the MAN for this video bro BIG UPS 🙏🏾🙌🏾 #TrendSetterSalute 🚨

[@andrecusson1609]

Do you exit the terminal window when you're done? It says closing it will terminate the running processes

[@juliamainzinger161]

Yes you can exit. It doesn't need to keep running anything.

[@rasfelippe]

tks in 2020 man! amazing tip, save my space in hd!

[@DaveyDave1977]

is there any specific external hard drive that you recommend? was wondering if i needed a NVMe M.2 SSD with enclosure or just a regular 4TB external hardrive.

[@nabanana1833]

I have some sound library that haven't been downloaded in my library, if I already did this steps, will it put the new sound to external HD automatically or should I do these steps again? thank you in advance

[@jreyes2446]

Someone answer this man please

[@nabanana1833]

I already downloaded it and it went straight to external HD.. 👌

[@ethanovergard892]

@@nabanana1833 and stayed off of your internal hard drive?

[@nabanana1833]

@@ethanovergard892 Yep it goes directly to my external hard drive.. Just don't forget to plug in the hard drive before opening up Logic.

[@YoungLegendRecords]

Hey I accidentally missed the part about deleting the space in Terminal. I redid it but the 30 gigs I deleted didnt seem to reflect in free space even after clearing my recycle bin ...any thoughts?

[@JesseBrown_]

It has the arrow on the . logic folder under application software yet my sounds are all gone know like the stock pianos etc

[@SooLeqitx3]

Will this same process work for relocating Serum libraries and other vst libraries?

[@IlysianOfficial]

This worked INSANELY well thank you very much. Only question I have is when it's all done, I go to quit Terminal and it says "Do you want to terminate running processes in this window?" Will it mess up everything I just did if I select Terminate?

[@emmanuelbonilla4375]

I'm curious too!

[@IlysianOfficial]

@@emmanuelbonilla4375 I actually hit terminate and it didn’t do anything so I think you’re good to do the same.

[@emmanuelbonilla4375]

@@IlysianOfficial got it. Now I'm just curious if the same will apply to other application like, Spectrasonics, Amplitube, Adobe, etc. Etc.

[@IlysianOfficial]

@@emmanuelbonilla4375 I’m gonna assume it’ll probably work in a similar way.

[@JesseBrown_]

ive done all these steps and i also moved all reciepts from the system to my library yet my logic sounds are not all there when i use my hardrive and open up logic

[@shemapicture2058]

sweet......thanks mate. Very useful info

[@janmarvindesign9175]

always can count on you sir! Thanks for this.