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Logic Pro X - Migrate Sound Library

Spacetime Anomaly

Spacetime Anomaly

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Hi there.

I have a new Mac and I have moved the sound libraries to their pertinent locations on the new machine, but the trouble is "Sound Library Manager" doesn't see them as installed. It seems to want me to re-download 100+ gb of content again.

Any help?
 
I haven't attempted what you're doing...you copied the folders and files (or the entire "Logic" folder) to /Library/Application Support/Logic?

Seems like it should work. I wonder if it's a permissions issue. In my case, I use a "symbolic link" at that spot and the actual "Logic" folder is on another drive.
 
On my Air I had the files on an external drive (using symbolic links), but on my MacBook Pro I want them on the internal drive (for convenience). I copied all the files that were linked previously (so, the entire Logic folder, audio samples, Impulse Responses etc,) into their 'real' locations on the new Mac.

On startup, Logic says there are sounds to download. When I look in the Sound Library Manager, it thinks I need to install everything. Oddly, I can see all my loops indexed in the inspector, but Sound Library Manager thinks they still need to be installed and, rather than updating anything, it wants to install them again from scratch.
 
I've never seen the issue or know of a fix...other than biting the download bullet.

Out of curiosity I'd probably look at file permissions...compare a file that Logic acknowledges to one it doesn't...using Terminal.
 
In Finder, the Logic folder shows as being owned by (me) rather than 'System'. That might have something to do with it. I'm going to uninstall everything, download Logic again, then after it has created those folders put the sound files inside them. Maybe that will work.

Update: All the sounds and loops are available in Logic. Joy! It's just the 'Sound Library Manager' doesn't know that. Boo.

Workable, at least, but might cause problems if I need to download more updates in the future.
 
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When you uninstalled did you get rid of everything that something like AppCleaner finds? I wonder if there's a cache file that's causing this.

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SOLVED

After re-downloading a few sounds I decided to perform a Finder search (including system files), and I found files in /System/Library/Receipts with titles like:

com.apple.pkg.MAContent10_AssetPack_0005_AlchemyStrings.plist
and:
com.apple.pkg.MAContent10_AssetPack_0005_AlchemyStrings.bom
etc.

I copied anything with MAContent10 in it’s name from my old mac to my new one, but couldn’t copy them into the /System/Receipts folder (for obvious reasons) so I copied them to the hard-drive’s /Library/Receipts folder instead.

All of my previously downloaded sounds are now listed as "Installed" in the Sound Library Manager, allowing me to see which of them are "Incomplete" and simply need updating.

Excellent.
 
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SOLVED

After re-downloading a few sounds I decided to perform a Finder search (including system files), and I found files in /System/Library/Receipts with titles like:

com.apple.pkg.MAContent10_AssetPack_0005_AlchemyStrings.plist
and:
com.apple.pkg.MAContent10_AssetPack_0005_AlchemyStrings.bom
etc.

I copied anything with MAContent10 in it’s name from my old mac to my new one, but couldn’t copy them into the /System/Receipts folder (for obvious reasons) so I copied them to the hard-drive’s /Library/Receipts folder instead.

All of my previously downloaded sounds are now listed as "Installed" in the Sound Library Manager, allowing me to see which of them are "Incomplete" and simply need updating.

Excellent.
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Kindly explain in more steps cause I have the same issue, Thanks in advance
 
Upgrade logic to 10.4.2 or greater, it has new option added to move sound library to another drive.
 
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