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Somewhere along the way I have messed up all the directory structures for my libraries, presets, patches etc. This probably came about during frantic efforts to restore damaged drives and revive broken projects while I was on the road. The result is, when I try to install Logic 8 I get missing samples, can't save presets in the right place, etc--even with the standard factory sounds and tutorial songs. And in many instances L8 just crashes altogether. So now I'm back on L7 which still works fine but I have L8 sitting here and it's time to get it up and running.
Seems I need to start from scratch. I could use some advice on the best way to go about this. As L8 will only install on the startup drive (correct?) I'm currently thinking I'll consolidate all my old L7 projects; insert a brand new internal hard drive, disconnect the old one; install Mac OSX, then install L8 on top. Is that the best way to go? Any anticipated problems with old projects or 3rd party plug-ins?

For what it's worth, I recently partitioned my computer's internal hard drive and I run a bare-bones OS and Logic on that partition of the drive. Nothing else.
It's easy to maintain and easy to back up as it's not a very large volume of data.

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