Moving Logic Studio 9 to an external drive

My internal HDD is almost full and I need to move some of my data to an external drive before it fills up completely.
Logic Studio and all the samples, loops etc strike me as a good candidate but I wish I had thought about this before I installed it. Generally Mac apps are very easy to uninstall but Logic is so vast that dragging the app to the Trash is not going to recover the 50GB of disk space.
I presume the easiest way to do this would be to uninstall Logic Studio, the Jam Packs, Audio Content etc and then reinstall choosing the external HDD as the target. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to do this - can anyone help me or point me in the direction of some instructions please?
Thanks in advance.

Just drag your Jam Packs and Apple Loops to an external drive. After doing so reindex the Library by dragging the folders from your external into the Library tab. Then delete the originals from your system drive.

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