Hey guys, what to do with the downloads for installed apps/plugins via the Steinberg Download Assistant?
Right now, the Steinberg downloads folder on my PC is 11.2GB.
I don’t see an automatic option to delete after it’s done with an install, Native Instruments Access for example just does it by default! You can delete each download manually, and only for those downloads it’s registered, I found that Novel Piano for example, the folder existed in the downloads folder but not seen the tick in the Steinberg Download Assistant.
It seems the Steinberg Download Assistant keeps a record of what is installed via the downloads folder (the green box with a tick).
I believe Steinberg are working on resolving this to use one app, right now, it’s three, SAM, Download Assistant and Library Manager but how long away is it from release.
Perhaps the next update of the Steinberg Download Assistant can have an option to delete the download once it’s done with the install?
Inside the Download Assistant it is still shown as “installed” and downloaded. If deleted via MacOs Finder.
Also the green sign of “installed” is NOT the info that it really is installed! Compare it in the Steinberg Library Manager! There it is installed… Because when you do the deletion inside Download Assistant this green “installed” info disappears. Yet it still is installed and in the folder used by the Library Manager:
/Users/rufus/Downloads/Steinberg/Content
So palease for the sake of logic change:
either change this “installed” button to downloaded + make sure it shows “not downloaded” after a manual deletion in MacOs Finder
OR
even better combine the Download Assistant with the Library Manager:
1 Tool for All
Thank you and Happy Wintertime with lots of music
I heard Steinberg was working in an all in one solution, software downloads and activation. At the moment, its an overkill, with the SAM, Download Assistant and Library Manager.
When it’ll be released is anyone’s guess.
I have set the download location for Download Assistant to a separate drive than the drive set in My Library Manager. When Content installation is completed, I am not totally sure whether the content has been moved to the Library Manager specified drive or not, as there are vstsound files left over in the Download Assistant download folder but are not on the other drive. I thought that the installation would automatically know where to put the vstsound files. Am I supposed to manually move the vstsound files? Is the Download Manager folder supposed be the same as the vstsound folder?
I just came in to vent The SB SDA is a very goofy thing…it just does not do what I ask it to do: it DLs wherever it wants regardless of the locations I input
users have to ensure DL and install locations; the whole system is just terrible
sends users into a false sense knowledge and then users have tear everything down and start over…it’s a terrible mess
when user sets “Target” location, install procedures install multiple WIN64 nested within the parent…seriously, very messy…no wonder I’ve had problems with this b4
Sorry, but I don’t understand what you mean by this.
I have set the download location in the SDA to my external USB drive and there is exactly one WIN64 folder on it. Within this folder I see all the folders containing the downloaded products, over time with different releases.
If set SDA Target to “D:”; then a WIN64 folder will be added to the “D” location and data written into the WIN64 folder.
If set to custom user folder syntax to something like:
“D:\Steinberg_Downloads” then a WIN64 folder will be added to the “Steinberg_Downloads” location and data written into the WIN64 folder.
If user then repoints Target to the “D:\Steinberg_Downloads\WIN64” location created by SDA routine in the previous example; SDA will write another WIN64 folder nested within D:\Steinberg_Downloads\WIN64 and user yields Steinberg_Downloads\WIN64\WIN64
very messy…I find no useful instructions for the SDA; learn by mistakes made at installation procedure and backtrack to clean up the mess
this annoys new users…I’m no newbie to the DAW world or using software in general…I had this issue previously with SpectraLayers and stopped using the SDA
That is no mess, that is completely normal behavior.
If you change the destination in the SDA it treats it as a new location and begins to store the downloads in that new location.
The SDA is not moving your previous location, that is something you need to do in your operating system yourself. The SDA can not know what your intention is when you modify this.
So just don’t create a WIN64 folder, because that is the default builtin to the SDA. It is telling you what operating system the files belong to.
The SDA allows you to download the files for WoA or Mac as well, so this is simply a structure to keep downloads clean.
I have my Steinberg Library Manager download target folder set as G:\Steinberg Sounds
When I install a sound expansion from Steinberg it sometimes installs .vstsound files into G:\Steinberg Sounds and at other times into G:\Steinberg Sounds\WIN64. Sometimes it installs to both folders. That seems odd to me.
Because sometimes an update download includes an application and some .vstsound files, I have the Steinberg Download Assistant also set to G:\Steinberg Sounds. These downloads send an application install Zip file to G:\Steinberg Sounds\WIN64. Not sure if this is why I get some .vstsound files installed here too.
How do others have their download destination folders set up?
I have set it to “D:/Steinberg”, which is the external disk, and not changed it for many years, this way I can still install various really old releases.
I never created the WIN64 folder. Steinberg created it in my Steinberg Sounds folder. If I delete it then it is created again when I do another download.
Yes, because this is the way the different Operating Systems are separated. In WIN64 you get all for Intel Windows, in case you download for Windows on ARM or MacOS you get different directories. It depends on what you select in the Download Assistant
And by design, and why we have user-defined download target folders. I just delete the temporary download files after use; a standard practice in general.
Everything is downloaded to the WIN64 folder first, Sounds are then moved to their defined default location by the Library Manager. That happens automatically after succesfull download.
@jeurgenP But sometimes SDA downloads to the WiN64 folder and does not then install to the root Steinberg Sounds directory. So the behavior that has been described here as normal is incorrect.
