Moving Motion Templates folder to an external drive?(Macos 12.3.1)

When typing things in the Terminal, you have to be precise!

If you look at what you typed, you have not put a space between -s and the single quote.

Also, there appears to be no space between the first path in quotes and the second one.

It should be something like this, where I deliberately put several more spaces for emphasis (the paths are deliberately indicative, do NOT use the command below!):

ln -s 'path-to-external' 'Motion\ Templates.localized'

whereas you wrote it like this:

ln -s'path-to-external''Motion\ Templates.localized'

If you have someone close that is comfortable using the Terminal, it is better that trying it over the internet like this. Not that we don't want to help, but it is clear that - sorry to be so blunt - you are a bit out of your depth.

The thing is, the wrong commands at Terminal can fail or, they can do serious damage.

When working with Terminal you should be aware of quoted things like "text with spaces" or 'text with spaces' and escaped things like text\ with\ spaces

So I published

ln -s '/Volumes/T5 SSD/Motion Templates.localized' 'Motion Templates.localized'

In Luis style 😊

ln -s '/Volumes/T5 SSD/Motion Templates.localized' 'Motion Templates.localized'

I did not publish

ln -s '/Volumes/T5\ SSD/Motion\ Templates.localized' 'Motion Templates.localized'

There are no path like those!!!

Where on your system is:

Motion\ Templates.localized

There only is :

Motion Templates.localized

You can either use the quoted form

'Motion Templates.localized'

or the escaped one

Motion\ Templates.localized

Hope it's clearer now

Unfortunately I only got a phone available right now.

So I cannot check what happened.

But there was another major typing error:

There is no "Movie" folder in your home directory - as you see in your Terminal response.

It must be "Movies", so all the command line is wrong.

Type "ln" (lima november) instead of "In" (India november) 🙂

Step 1:

cd ~/Movies

Step 2:

ln -s '/Volumes/T5 SSD/Motion Templates.localized' 'Motion Templates.localized'

Oh, and sorry, when I said it seemed ok before, I had missed that.

As spherico noted - you either use, for example

'Motion Templates'

(use the quotes, do not escape the space with a backslash)

or

Motion\ Templates

(no quotes, have to escape the space in the middle with a backslash)

I think Ian's question is quite relevant... why do want to do this?

I don't know whether this would work ................... make an alias of the MT folder in the Movies folder and copy the original to the external drive?

If you are dragging, do NOT type the quotes.

The path will be quoted automatically.

Launching FCP will add the app to the current processes. When there is no Motion Template folder nothing happens by default. But when you have FxFactory or similar installed those apps will react and install a Motion Template folder for you - which probably will be incomplete.

You are correct ............ it doesn't work.

I just tried making an alias (to double-check) and FCP couldn't see it.