How to relocate VirtInst file to External Disk?

[chuckolucas]

I appreciate any help and I am sure I am not the first person to ask this question.
- If there is a guide or best practices for moving stuff to an external disk I will try to read that first.

I started loading products a long time ago by downloading to the local disk. Now, I have run out of room so I would like to move all my virtual instruments and plugins to a new external drive.
Sample Tank with Miroslav, Syntronik and Pianoverse take up 300gb of my 480GB drive on my iMac Air.
Here are some questions which someone may know the answer(s) to.

Can I install or reinstall:
all of my IK apps on an External drive (2tb with 950gb r/w speeds)
Leave the apps by install the sounds externally?
Can I download and directly install everything on an external disk or do I have to move files from the local disk to external disk.
Do I need or can I create an alias to help move most of the files to the external drive?

Thank you for your time!

BTW, love the sounds for Pianoverse, Bx3 and a long time fan of the modeling stuff!

[DarkStar]

Leave the software programs and plug-ins where they are.

You can move the complete sounds library for each of the products to a different folder) on your other disk).

Then run each standalone program and in its Preference Settings, select the new destination folder. Remove the old folder entry if needed. It may take some time for the program to rebuild the database cache.

When you done that for a program, rename the old sounds library folder and run the program. Check that its sounds can be loaded and played OK. If everything is OK you can delete the sounds library from your local disk. Repeat for each program.

Also, you do not need to keep the downloaded files in the IK Product Manager's "downloads" folder. You can back them up to an archive disk (just in case you need them again), then delete them. (You can also download them again from the IK Multimedia web site, but that could take some time, depending on your broadband.

[vanryan7]

So, you can't install sounds directly to an external drive anymore?

[Peter_IK]

So, you can't install sounds directly to an external drive anymore?

Of course you can. There's a setting in IK Product Manager for sound install location and it has a link for more information if you need help with it:

Sounds install settings
Allow selection of custom path for sounds installations.
This will install your sound content to the selected location as well as add this path to your host application as a new path. For instructions on using a custom sound path instead click here

[vanryan7]

Ok, so I already have sample tank 4 but I'm going to buy Total studio 4 since it is such a good deal right now. Now I have my samples on an external ssd. I chose the drive letter, and it locates everything fine. Will sample tank create a folder on install if I just leave it as is like before? Pretty sure that's how I did it last time or do I need to remove my pathway and set up a new pathway like it says. Do I need to reinstall the whole st4 library going from st4 to st4 max? And does v2 versions like T-racks max AmpliTube max, St4 max install over older versions or do you keep both?