Is there a way to move garageband content to another drive/location?

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Is there a way to move garageband content to another drive/location?

Hi, I have the latest version of Garageband and Mainstage on my Mac Pro.I use a 60gb SSD as my boot drive for performance, and have a second HDD for data.

Is there a way to move all the large content i.e. Loops, instruments, video tutorials etc to my second HDD but keep the main Garageband/ Mainstage apps on my SSD bootdrive?

I want to try and avoid using up too much space on my SSD and from what i can find online, it seems its possible to do this on the earlier versions of garageband.

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GarageBand (Mac) '11, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Nov 28, 2012 4:09 PM

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HangTime

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Nov 28, 2012 4:35 PM in response to CCJohnstone

CCJohnstone wrote:

Is there a way to move all the large content i.e. Loops, instruments, video tutorials etc to my second HDD

the loops are fairly easy to move (moving the instruments and other system files is not reccomended):

http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#loopsexternaldrive

(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)

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Nov 28, 2012 4:46 PM in response to HangTime

Thanks for the reply, that seems to work fine for the loops. Although it seems the loops dont take up much space compared to the instruments etc. I think the tutorial videos take up a fair bit of space too.

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