Logic Pro X: Install additional content on external hard drive?

It looks like Logic Pro X must first be installed onto the external hard drive to which you want to install the Additional Content packages. I tried modifying my script below to install to external hard disk "ExternalLogicDisk", but I received an error because logic was never installed on ExternalLogicDisk

From my post https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5188851?answerId=22587666022#22587666022, I tried manually installing JamPack1.pkg to ExternalLogic Disk, but I got the following error:

$ sudo installer -pkg JamPack1.pkg -target /Volumes/ExternalLogicDisk/
Password:
installer: Cannot install on volume /Volumes/ExternalLogicDisk because it is disabled.
installer: A qualifying copy of Logic or MainStage was not found.

Conclusively, if you can successfully install Logic Pro X to the external hard disk first, try modifying the script in aforementioned post as follows

Change...

sudo installer -pkg $f -target /

...to

sudo installer -pkg $f -target "/Volumes/ExternalLogicDisk"

I followed all your instructions in your posts but I get this error when I want to install the packages on a different HD:

installer: Error trying to locate volume at /Volumes/Data/– Library –/

I want to install the packages on my HD named "Data" into the folder "– Library –"

I tried it by writing these paths into the .sh file, but it didn't work

/Volumes/Data/- Library -/

/Volumes/Data/-\Library\-/

does it have to be in the root folder of the HD?

because I tried to install it only in "Volumes/Data" and it worked.

thanks in advance!

Yes, most likely packages can only be installed on the root folder of the target drive. Per the manual page for the "installer" command, the target may only be a volume, not a specific folder. You could try messing with other parameters. Also, don't forget to use double-quotes in shell scripts when working with files/folders that contain spaces. good luck.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/darwin/reference/manpages/ man8/installer.8.html

DEVICES
     A device parameter for the target is any one of the following:


     1) Any of the values returned by -dominfo
     2) The device node entry.  Any entry of the form of /dev/disk*.  ex: /dev/disk2
     3) The disk identifier.  Any entry of the form of disk*.  ex: disk1s9
     4) The volume mount point.  Any entry of the form of /Volumes/Mountpoint.  ex: /Volumes/Untitled
     5) The volume UUID.  ex: 376C4046-083E-334F-AF08-62FAFBC4E352

thanks.

one more thing.

how do you install Logic itself to another location / hard drive?

since it's just an .app file I thought I just put it on my desired hard drive.

then I installed all the content on the root of the same hard drive with your script.

but when I opened Logic it started the download of the 2GB basic content and after that it would get stuck at the installation process for like forever.

but as soon as I put the Logic app back to the Apps folder on the system drive, the installation process was finished only in a few minutes.

Of course after that I could put the Logic app back on my other hard drive but it didn't find the additional content and wanted to download and install all of it again...

Before all of this I also tried it with symlinks but that didn't work out either...

I'm unsure how to install Logic to an external drive. Perhaps by downloading the app from the Apple Store and running the .pkg manually after download completes?

After experimenting a little and modifying Apple's installation code, I was able to install the packages to an external drive. However, this code modification probably violates Apple's Terms of Use and I'm not publishing it. Regardless, Logic still searches the internal disk anyway, so installing the Additional Content Packages to an external drive doesn't provide a benefit

Looks like the best option is install the packages and move the folder /Library/ApplicationSupport/Logic to the external drive and then create a symblink to that. That folder is 26 GB on my computer, so this method should save a significant amount of space.

1. Copy /Library/ApplicationSupport/Logic folder to your external drive (i.e. /LogicLibrary on volume "External1")
2. Delete that Logic on your internal drive and empty your trash
3. in Terminal, create a link to the Logic folder you copied to External1
   

   $ sudo ln -s "/Volumes/External1/LogicLibrary" "/Library/Application Support/Logic"

In your case - you still haven't provided enough escaped entries in the path. You also must escape the dashes:

shabshekan wrote:

/Volumes/Data/- Library -/

/Volumes/Data/-\Library\-/

does it have to be in the root folder of the HD?

because I tried to install it only in "Volumes/Data" and it worked.

Escape both the spaces and the dashes and make that entry:

/Volumes/Data/\ \-\ Library\ \-

I was redirected here from this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5204543?answerId=22610844022#22610844022&ac_cid=ms123456#22610844

I'd like to confirm that the solution to have a link for

/Library/Application Support/Logic to another drive works.

It works here on my rMBP and my Mac Pro 4,1.

The secret is to download the intial expansion to your system drive FIRST, and then perform the move and synlink.

seisend wrote:

I don't know where the download destination is.

does anyone know where the packages are downloaded to before they are installed ? i managed (as i did with previous versions) to install on an external hd with the sybolic link idea. however, my internal hd still lost quite some GB after the fact. the logic app is smal the logic folder is a symbolic link the apple loops folder is a symbolic link… where have my GB (about 20!) gone ?

they are downloaded to ambiguously-named folders in /private/far/folders. Run the following commands in Terminal to find the folder "com.apple.MusicApps" and open in the Finder.

$ cd /private/var/folders/

$ find . -name com.apple.MusicApps -type d 2>/dev/null
./ha/_slgh2349x8aszasdf00/C/com.apple.MusicApps

$ open ./ha/_slgh2349x8aszasdf00/C/com.apple.MusicApps

My downloaded Content is located in "/private/var/folders/d1/9dj6n_fd239_76cf446z4sj00000gn/C/com.apple.MusicApps/a udiocontentdownload.apple.com/".

It's the only folder in "d1" on my Mac. I thinks its easyer for people, who haven't sound knowledge of the terminal.

I just downloaded Mavericks and I tried the method that you (viento10) mentioned but once I run the following line:

"/Volumes/750\ Data/DELETE_TEST/" "/Library/Application Support/ANOTHER_TEST"

but I get an error in Terminal:

ln: /Library/Application Support/ANOTHER_TEST/: No such file or directory

fyi, I created a fake folder in case this happened, I didn't wanna delete all of my Logic files. Any ideas??

You don't need the escape if you're using quotes. Try this:

sudo ln -s "/Volumes/750 Data/DELETE_TEST/" "/Library/Application Support/ANOTHER_TEST/"

For anyone interested, this worked for me:

sudo cp -rf "/Library/Application Support/Logic/" "/Volumes/Storage/Logic/"

sudo mv -rf "/Library/Application Support/Logic/" "/Library/Application Support/Logic.old"

sudo ln -s "/Library/Application Support/Logic/" "/Volumes/Storage/Logic/"

sudo rm -rf "/Library/Application Support/Logic.old"

One note, in Disk Utility, there was no change in disk usage because of the symlinks but when I got info on "Macintosh HD", I went fomr 60GB used to 20GB.

Best article, to tackle this, ever:

http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/logic-pro/how-and-why-to-move-your-logic-pro -x-sound-libraries-to-an-external-drive/

Have a nice day!

hey over there, just a little question: how to create an symbolic link ? after download the SymbolicLinker, the .service do not open and the .plugin opens the terminal... what do i need to type there in ?

best thx

matthias