Got the pick five bundle from ujam and the deal on STRANGER, they did mention you could use an external drive to load plugins like that but when I load the pianist plugin to point to where the libraries are on my external drive it just doesn’t load, and the Usynth plugin doesn’t load either and they won’t let me point to their libraries. The guitarists load and let me point to their samples and work fine but it’s just the other plugins with multiple products that don’t seem to even work and I’m not loading them with the samples internally since I wanted to save space while still having access. Is there a way to reset the plugins without uninstalling and reinstalling them? Just in case reinstalling just downloads the pianos I had gotten from earlier and I would use the blobs in my external drive instead

 

use symlinks from where the libraries are supposed to be, to where they actually are.

 

Ok I will try that, how do I make a quick and dirty symlink? Usually when I see this kind of thing it’s for a folder with stuff in it, but I just want to make links to the individual files that belong to the specific instruments not working since I have them working on Mac but not windows

 

it's very similar:

File symlink: mklink "link_name" "target_file"
Directory symlink: mklink /D "link_name" "target_directory"
Hard link (file only): mklink /H "link_name" "target_file"
Junction (directory alternative): mklink /J "link_name" "target_directory"

Examples:
File: mklink "C:\link.txt" "C:\actual\path\file.txt"
Directory: mklink /D "C:\LinkFolder" "C:\Actual\TargetFolder"

Some windows users get a program to do it called Symbolic Linker, but you don't need one. For a library, you are almost always using the top level directory, like \Samples

 

So I can name the file link something like VP-VOGUE_part1.blob and it’d work linking it to the actual file on my external drive? The way you make it seems like you gotta have the file in two places at once but if I can just have the name of the link be the same as the file it’s linked to then that’d make it easier

 

it's like you are forwarding the directory. you do not have the file in two places. that's the whole point.

 

It’s giving me an error saying something mklink isn’t a valid commandlet, script, function etc. when i try it, i put in the directory, then the name, then the directory of my file and it’s still not working

 

there are enough people who get it wrong, obviously; since there are a bunch of little utility programs to do it.

Like this one: https://github.com/arnobpl/SymlinkCreator or some other. This is not exactly secret knowledge. Google it. I can't imagine not using symlinks frequently with all the programs for audio and their massive content libraries.