I recently tried moving my sample libraries to an external drive. I’m relocating them to the correct folder, however, several of the libraries wont link. Here’s the error code. What’s going on here?
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I recently tried moving my sample libraries to an external drive. I’m relocating them to the correct folder, however, several of the libraries wont link. Here’s the error code. What’s going on here?
Could the length of the file path name of certain library file locations be too long for the OS to process? I know that has happened to some folks’ Dorico files.
I’ll give it a try and shorten it up . Thanks.
T
Hi there,
I’m still having problems navigating my files after moving them to an external drive. I have changed the folder destination name as suggested, now I get this error and the download assistant won’t even open. Suggestions?
I don’t know where SDA is reading this preference from. I’ll ask our support team if they know how to solve this.
When you click OK in the prompt that appears, you should then see a file picker that allows you to choose a new download location. Is that not happening on your system?
Thanks!
T
It is not.
T
Are you able to temporarily recreate the location SDA is looking for? If SDA can find that location, you should find that it starts up, and you can then change the download location to whatever you now want it to be.
This is what things look like when I open Halion. I know that the files have downloaded to the correct folder, but for some reason it won’t open these. SDA has located other files previously, just not finding these right now. Puzzling… In addition, if I download an additional sample library, SDA wants to create a new OSX folder within the previous OSX folder. This in itself is confusing.
It seems like we might be talking at cross purposes. You’ve downloaded an enormous amount of sound content via SDA. Do you have licenses for all those libraries, or were you only trying to download the content required for Dorico itself?
That’s a very good question. I was trying to include the Iconica libraries in my pallet with a couple of different 3rd party sample libraries. I thought I had the Iconica working fine a couple of weeks ago, but started to get prompted when opening up Dorico that it couldn’t find a few libraries since I moved them to a new location. Like Groove agent and Iconica, Indian drums…
Btw, I’ve noticed that the program itself is extremely slow when trying to add instruments. Sometimes it takes about :30 to open up when clicking add.
T
(Full) Iconica is slow to load because it is a large sound set.
Being smaller, Iconica Sketch is faster.
It looks from your account, Tony, that you only have a Dorico Pro 5 license, in which case you really don’t need all of that content, because you don’t have any licenses for it.
Everything you need content-wise for Dorico Pro 5 can be found in Steinberg Download Assistant by choosing the Dorico Pro 5 product in the Dorico category on the left-hand side. You don’t need any other content from anywhere else.
Unless you’re planning to buy licenses for all that other content, it’s just taking up space on your drive. So I would recommend that you delete the Steinberg/OSX folder inside your Downloads folder.
If you’re not sure whether you have the right content installed in Dorico itself, do Help > Create Diagnostic Report and attach the resulting zip file here.