I have Google around for this but can't resolve it.

I have recently installed Z3ta+2, Rapture Pro and Dimension Pro plus expansions. However, the resulting Cakewalk Content folder is pretty huge and I want to ship off to an external drive to save my SSD space on my OS drive.

I tried moving but all my presets and pat he's disappeared. Google a bit and found it needed a regent tweak. Done that and Z3ta now works fine, but the other two still don't see their patches etc.

Anybody know how to properly move the folder and get it working fine?

 

here is what I usually do:
- copy the folder to the external drive
- once everything is copied over, rename the folder on the original disk
=> if the folder name was "MyInsanelyHugeSampleLib", rename it to "__MyInsanelyHugeSampleLib" or similar

Depending on your operating system ...
Win: open a DOS-box (preferably as Administrator) and create a "junction" to the new location on the external drive you copied the original folder to
OSX/Linux: open a terminal and create a symbolic link to the new location

After that you should see something that appears as folder in the original location. Through junction/symbolic link this is just a reference and points to the new location where you copied the files to. Youtube is filled with instructions ... just search for "win junction" or "osx symbolic link".

Once you have verified that everything is running fine, you can finally delete the folder on the original drive which you have renamed to
"__MyInsanelyHugeSampleLib". Hope that helps

 

I found this thread try doing the register tweak techead show but as always do a backup of the register first just in case
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Moving-the-Dim-Pro-Sample-Library-To-Another-Drive-m1120449.aspx

 

Another way to transfer any content to an exernal drive or e.g. a NAS is to use symbolic links (hard links).
For any program those links are the same as a physical file locations. I use to copy all my data files to a NAS and set up symbolic links to point to the resource.
Pros:
I'm able to use the same files from different machines.
Backups of my machines are smaller.
All data files only once, less redundancy
Easyer to backup.

Hardlink freeware utility (x86/x64): http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html

 

Last edited: Feb 15, 2016

Yo, I wanna move this folder too. Same situation like the original poster... however I have no idea what the hell everyone is talking about above me

 

Do I use that hardlink utility to 'Pick Link Source' on the C drive content folder and then 'Drop As - Hardlink' on the real content folder on my samples harddrive?

 

bah, I cant get it to work; does anyone know how to do this?

 

You have to move the folder first before making the link.
I've never used that tool but it should do the same as creating a directory junction.
I'm on my tablet 'coz the PC is loading an ALP right now so I can't try it but creating the directory junction is pretty straightforward.
Copy and paste Cakewalk folder onto your external or wherever you want the content located.
Open a Command Prompt as admin.
Type something similar to the following:

mklink/J "C:\Program Files\Cakewalk" "X:\Cakewalk"

Make sure you enter the exact path to where your Cakewalk content USED to be located in the first quotes. This is the link you are creating.
Enter the path to wherever you moved the Cakewalk folder in the second quotes.

I can't remember where exactly the Cakewalk folder is on the C drive so substitute "C:\Program Files\Cakewalk" with whatever location you find it in.
In my example the content would be stored in the root folder on the X drive and there would be a directory junction at C:\Program Files\Cakewalk pointing to it.

I've done this with my Spectrasonics STEAM folder and all my Kontakt libraries.

http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/
Use this to find large PROGRAM folders to relocate quickly. Just stay away from the Windows SYSTEM folders as some of them are symlinked by default like the Winsxs folder and moving that will royally screw things up.

 

Last edited: Oct 17, 2016

Thanks mate

 

I'm getting an error on command prompt: "Cannot create a file when that file already exists."

 

am I wrong trying to link these two? or what's up

 

I think you moved the contents of the Cakewalk Content folder but left the folder named Cakewalk Content itself there. Windows can't make the symlink if the folder it's trying to create is already there.
Move the entire Cakewalk Content folder (or if at this point it's empty, delete it) then run the command again.

 

Last edited: Oct 17, 2016

Woohoo.

 

Thanks again.

 

You're welcome, friend.

 

So how does one go about deleting the link, say if he wants to reset everything back to the way it was?