Newbie library location question

Hi everyone
i just got a copy of logic pro 7. i have no idea what i am doing, but i wanna mess around with it. first i want to figure this out: is there a way to transver everything that was installed from the second dvd to an external drive? all the loops and stuff so that i desn't take up much space on my powerbooks drive
thanks to you all
vuk

vradic,
I have no problems when using the "alias" method.
Move all the directories located in ~/Library/Application Support/Logic that are sizable over to an external HD. Then create an alias for each and move it back to that Logic folder. Follow the same technique for those pesky Apple Loops folders too. Works great for me.

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I recently purchased a time capsule and moved all my media to the new drive. I changed the default library location in preferences. Problem is, every time I quit and relaunch iTunes, the default library location reverts back to my old location on my mac. Any ideas how I can get iTunes to remember my new default location? It's as if it's picking up a location file somewhere that is telling it to create a new library on my mac's hard drive.
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ChuckLD wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply... Old habbits die hard when you're a life long PC user :- ) When I was refering to the C: drive, I actually meant my MacBook internal hard drive. I'm using OS X 10.5.2.
No worries. It's just sometimes people don't say what they mean or mean what they think they mean and it can slow down the process. Of course, sometimes I just don't read what people actually wrote.
I keep my external hard drive connected via the Airport Extreme Base Station, and always keep it connected ( in other words, I see it in the Finder SideBar, and it always says connected ).
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