Location of VST Sounds

Cubase
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When backing up preferences, I found that a number of my VST Instrument sounds (Padshop, HSO, Grand 3 SE a.o.) are located in the profile directory of Win7. To be precise, here: “C:\Users\MyName\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\Content”. Now when conciously installing others myself, I pointed them on a location on my D:\ drive, cause I don’t want samples on my OS drive.

How can I change the location of these sounds without crippling the system? Uninstall and reinstall, just moving the files, or is there an elaborate way from within Cubase?

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Anyone, please?

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There is a way in Windows to move your ENTIRE user profile.

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For padshop I simply moved the soundset to where I wanted it. When I started padshop it said it could not find the soundset and asked for it’s location. In the end, it placed a shortcut on my c drive pointing to the actual location of the content. HSO works the same way. I don’t have Grand 3 SE.

Ron

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Thanks for the answers. I guess I’ll just move them then and get Cubase to ask for the location. Weird that Steinberg lets these things install anywhere they want…

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BTW, my presets are still on the C Drive, it’s only the libraries that I have moved.

Ron

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It asks you on install where to install the sound files for HalionOne, and VST sound files.

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I did this awhile ago, so I couln’t remember if the installer asked. But Padshop does not ask, so you have to move after the fact.

Ron

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Yes, but not the ones I mentioned, and apparently Retrologue did get installed with the rest. It’s just not consistent unfortunately.

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Any advantage to the default being the OS drive?

Mine is quite small, and so I have to routinely move them to one of my other drives.

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I prefer to keep my OS drive small as possible for imaging reasons. This is why I like to put large libraries on other partitions.

Ron

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Plus, the OS accessing the system drive can interfere with accessing samples for Cubase.