TS4498 Can i move my installation of Logic 10 to another hard drive, as its nearly full and i want to free up space so i can install the additional audio files too.

Hi All,
       ....i've recently bought and downloaded Logic Pro X.........the software is great.......i love it. But when i bought it from apple, it gave me no choice where to install it. It just went ahead and installed it in the drive which has my operating system in it. Which, in itself is not a problem........but, in my case, the hard drive in question is almost full...........so when i decided to add the additional audio files which come with Logic...........a message was displayed that not enough free space is available for additional audio files.......please remove files to free up space!  
        I would love to free up space, but i only have a small 64gb SSD (which is where my operating system is installed). Normally, by moving files around (to another hard drive for example) would be the answer to this problem, but.........and here's the problem..........Logic, and my operating system cannot be moved to another hard drive, once installed it seems logic is there for good.
        Come on Apple!!!!!!!!!!.................i have a terrabyte of space on my other hard drive!! ready and waiting for some music files and or Logic!!!!  .........why on earth could you not of given me the option of an installation disk choice!!!!!
      .......well, it seems i'm stuffed now, and £130 lighter in the pocket. I could be the next Mody or Fat Boy Slim............but alas............it's not even looking like i'm gonna even be a one hit wonder.
     ........if anyone knows how to move logic to another destination drive, please help and when i'm famous, i'll sing at your wedding :-)

The vast majority of applications must be install on the system drive in order to run correctly.
Generally the applications take up very little disk space. It is usually the files they produce that need the space. Seeing as how I don't use Logic I can't do this but you might want to check how to move the files generated by Logic to another drive.
Allan

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