How Should/Can I Backup Mainstage 2 Download

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How Should/Can I Backup Mainstage 2 Download

I resently perchased Mainstage 2 via the App Store, I have started to download the additional free content - spacing it out over a couple months so that I don't get charged by my ISP for 30+GB of excess data!!.

Since I don't want to have to go through the process of re-downloading the entire library in the event of a system crash, I want to backup the additional content to a network Drobo. I checked the :Library/Application Support folder and did not find a Mainstage folder, but did find a Logic folder.

Since I do not have Logic installed on this Mac, I am assuming the content is for Mainstage. Is this correct? If that is the case, if/when I install Logic, will Logic automatically find the content?

Will all the additional content download into this folder?

If that is the case, can I just backup the Logic folder to my Drobo, and if my system crashes, can I just copy the folder back and have the content recognized by Mainstage after moving to a new Mac or a recovery?

Any help of suggestions on the proper steps to backup Mainstage and all the free downloadable additional content would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2.16 GHz, 2GB RAM, 500 GB HDD, FCS1

Posted on Jan 11, 2012 5:09 AM

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CCTM

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Jan 13, 2012 1:43 AM in response to Gary Sumlak

Hi

You will need to backup:

The Mainstage Application

Library:Application Support:Logic

Library:Application Support:GarageBand:Instrument Library

Library:Audio:Apple Loops

Library:Audio:Impulse Responses

That should do it?

It might be easier to download the Additional Content installers directly (rather than using the in-application method), so that you can backup the installers themselves.

From another thread on the forum

http://audiocontentdownload.apple.com/lp9_ms2_content_2011/GarageBand11Instrumen tsPro.pkg

http://audiocontentdownload.apple.com/lp9_ms2_content_2011/JamPack1.pkg

http://audiocontentdownload.apple.com/lp9_ms2_content_2011/JamPack4_Instruments. pkg

http://audiocontentdownload.apple.com/lp9_ms2_content_2011/JamPackOneInstruments Surround.pkg

http://audiocontentdownload.apple.com/lp9_ms2_content_2011/JamPackOneLoopsAAC.pk g

http://audiocontentdownload.apple.com/lp9_ms2_content_2011/JamPackOrchestralInst rumentsSurround.pkg

http://audiocontentdownload.apple.com/lp9_ms2_content_2011/JamPackOrchestralLoop sAAC.pkg

http://audiocontentdownload.apple.com/lp9_ms2_content_2011/JamPackRemixToolsInst rumentsSurround.pkg

http://audiocontentdownload.apple.com/lp9_ms2_content_2011/JamPackRhythmSectionI nstrumentsSurround.pkg

http://audiocontentdownload.apple.com/lp9_ms2_content_2011/JamPackRhythmSectionL oopsAAC.pkg

http://audiocontentdownload.apple.com/lp9_ms2_content_2011/JamPackVoicesLoopsAAC .pkg

http://audiocontentdownload.apple.com/lp9_ms2_content_2011/JamPackWorldMusicInst rumentsSurround.pkg

http://audiocontentdownload.apple.com/lp9_ms2_content_2011/JamPackWorldMusicLoop sAAC.pkg

http://audiocontentdownload.apple.com/lp9_ms2_content_2011/LogicProSurroundConte nt.pkg

http://audiocontentdownload.apple.com/lp9_ms2_content_2011/ProAudioAdditionalCon tent.pkg

http://audiocontentdownload.apple.com/lp9_ms2_content_2011/ProAudioCoreContent.p kg

http://audiocontentdownload.apple.com/lp9_ms2_content_2011/RemixTools_Instrument s.pkg

http://audiocontentdownload.apple.com/lp9_ms2_content_2011/RhythmSection_Instrum ents.pkg

http://audiocontentdownload.apple.com/lp9_ms2_content_2011/Voices_Instruments.pk g

http://audiocontentdownload.apple.com/lp9_ms2_content_2011/WorldMusic_Instrument s.pkg

CCT

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Gary Sumlak Author

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Jan 13, 2012 9:00 AM in response to CCTM

Beautiful! Thanks very much. I will DL the packages.

I do have a curiousity question though... I have ALL the Jam Packs (including the discontinued JP1), and I installed them a couple years ago, without issue. They all seem to work perfectly with GB9 (v6.0.4). So, I am wondering, why Mainstage needs to re-download all this content? Is there additional content that is not on JP DVDs?

TIA again.

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CCTM

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Jan 13, 2012 9:21 AM in response to Gary Sumlak

Hi

Possibly because the loops on your Mac are not in the standard (Factory) location?... most of mine are on a different drive, which both Logic & Mainstage do not seem to 'know about'.

There does not seem to be any difference regarding the overall content of the downloads (loops/instruments etc) except that the loops are now supplied lossy/lossless compressed. As best I remember, the JamPack DVD's come with full quality (and 10x larger) aiffs???

CCT

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Gary Sumlak Author

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Jan 13, 2012 11:26 AM in response to CCTM

I don't thing the location is an issue as I installed with the defaults, and Mainstage finds them OK.

When I use the Download Additonal Content, MS2 shows the Jam Packs Status as incomplete, showing the Apple Loops are installed, but the Instruments are not. I checked and GB finds all the instruments, and when I check :Library:Application Support/Garageband on my G5 Quad and my MBP, info shows the same folder size and number of files.

Even the :/Library/Application Support/Logic folders are the same size. As well the Date Modified dates all match up.

Unless there is anothe folder where the content is being saved to, I am at a lost as to why MS can't find the content, or where the new content is being installed.

Thoughts?

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