Can You Store Logics Media, Sound Files on External HD to Save Space?

Hello Fellow Mackers!
I have an Macbook Pro and use Logic, Reason and Fab Four. Can I store Logic's sound files on an external 7200 sata hd in order to save space?
Thanks as always!!

Hi, this is from a post that BeeJay helped me with:
Logic's instruments go in the respective locations inside /Library/Application Support/Logic/, and all the Garageband instruments and Jampack instruments go inside /Library/Application Support/Garageband/
The missing content installer bug is an annoying one, and I've just yesterday gone through this again as I've copied all that content back onto my drives and catalogued what files are in which installers and which disks (I can't upload this at the moment, my webhost is playing up).
Personally, I avoid using the installer for content now, and just use Pacifist to extract what I want, where I want. I'll typically extract it to a spare location on my drive, then do what I want with it, then finally move it to my proper library locations on an external drive.
Note that the instruments have to be in your GB library, but the samples can go more or less anywhere. Now, you can alias your entire GB library, but this causes issues if you also want to use GB, and causes issues with the Hybrid instruments & plugs in Logic, which don't follow alilases and will therefore break.
So what I recommend with the JP instrument content is keep everything in the proper GB library on your system disk (the instrument , settings and chanelstrip files are small and so don't take up much space), and move the samples to your external drive -all except the Hybrid sample folders, which should be left where they are.)
If you are not sure what you are ding, or what the proper GB library folder structure is like, then use the installer and let it create it all for you, then move the sample content afterwards.
So I moved all the SAMPLES across to my samples drive and left the instruments and settings etc where they were. The only samples I left in default install location was the Hybrid sample folders just as BeeJay instructed.
I discovered that the Ultrabeat samples didn't like to be moved but were more than happy to be aliased.
For me it all went very smoothly and I moved all the sample content before I booted Logic for the first time. All my samples were found pretty much instantly.
Hope this helps some. Thank BeeJay for this though.

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