Move Apple Loops to External Drive?

hello
i was looking at all the files on my drive, and i noticed that so much space is taken up by the apple loop .caf files. Is there a way to move these to a folder on my external drive but still have logic know where to find them?
thanks

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1. On your external hard drive, create 2 folders: Garage Band Samples, Logic Samples.
2. Goto MacIntosh HD> Library> Application Support> Garage Band> Instrument Library> Sampler> Sampler Files. Take the entire folder for "Sample Files", and copy this to the "Garage Band Samples" folder on your external drive.
3. Goto MacIntosh HD> Library> Application Support> Logic> EXS Samples. Take the entire folder for "EXS Samples", and copy this to the "Logic Samples" folder on your external drive.
4. Open up 2 windows on your screen, one window of the external drive with the Garage Band Sample window, and one of your laptop's garage band sampler files. These windows should contain the exact same folders, starting with the "2-Step Remix and ending with "Xylophone".
5. Here comes the extemely tedious part. You'll do the following, for every folder here... For Example....
1. Under the folder on the external drive, select every .aif file in the "2-step Remix" folder and make an alias' of them.
2. Under the folder on the Macintosh HD, trash all the .aif files in the "2-step Remix" folder.
3. Under the folder on the external drive, drag every alias file into the "2-Step Remix" folder on the Macintosh HD.
4. This is the process you need to follow for every folder under the Garage Band and Logic samples folders......yes it is tedious.....

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Thread 2
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