Accessing Plug-Ins Installed on a Separate Hard Drive

brian_delizza · 5th February 2009, 11:57 PM

I am running leopard off of an external drive with Pro Tools 8. I have lots of plug-ins installed on my system drive running tiger, and I would like to access them through pro tools 8. Is there a way of having pro tools look for those files without having to re-install them on the new volume?
Thanks guys (and gals)

25ghosts · 6th February 2009, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by brian_delizza

I am running leopard off of an external drive with Pro Tools 8. I have lots of plug-ins installed on my system drive running tiger, and I would like to access them through pro tools 8. Is there a way of having pro tools look for those files without having to re-install them on the new volume?
Thanks guys (and gals)

You could go into the OS X Terminal and enter do the following:

once the Terminal is up enter

ln path/to/the/plug/you/wanna/use pathtoTDMfolder/FullNameofPlug

the path/to/the/plug/you/wanna/use could be MacHD/Library/blablablabla

the pathtoTDMfolder/FullNameofPlug is the path to you TDM Plug-in folder

and YES there is a SPACE between the two paths.

What this does is to create a virtual copy, which cannot be told apart from the original.

YOU could also simply, via the Finder, copy the plugs from the tiger partition to the TDM folder of your choice

I hope this helps

brian_delizza · 6th February 2009, 02:48 AM

that is amazing thank you very much!

25ghosts · 6th February 2009, 03:28 AM

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Originally Posted by brian_delizza

that is amazing thank you very much!

Brian,

it may be that you will get an error stating that it wont work across two independent drive/volumes. That is with the ln command.

I wasnt thinking.

instead of ln - write ln -s blablablablablablabla

you may wanna have a look here

Basic UNIX COmmand

Your whole OS X is nothing but a good looking interface running on UNIX. SO MUCH you can do with that wonderful Terminal

psycho_monkey · 6th February 2009, 11:12 AM

for the sake of a couple of hours of installing (at worst) you're setting yourself up for a whole heap of problems.

Half your plugins are likely to have different versions for tiger and leopard, some may need specific libraries installed as well as the actual plugin file. I just don't get why you'd want to comprimise stability for the sake of a short amount of time sorting things out?

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6th February 2009, 11:12 AM	#5
psycho_monkey Lives for gear Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: London Posts: 6,725	for the sake of a couple of hours of installing (at worst) you're setting yourself up for a whole heap of problems. Half your plugins are likely to have different versions for tiger and leopard, some may need specific libraries installed as well as the actual plugin file. I just don't get why you'd want to comprimise stability for the sake of a short amount of time sorting things out?