Loops and livetype images on an firewire HD

[Debe]

Yep. I moved all mine from my laptop to an external bus powered FW drive and it works fabulously. After I moved all the Apple Loops, DVDSP and Motion Templates, I gained over 25 gigs of space back on my laptop. Went from a bloated 65+ GB to a svelte 39.

There is an Setup button in STP in the Search tab in the lower left hand quadrant. Click on that, click the “+” button, and navigate to your external drive. Select the new location & hit the Index Now button. It will index the files on that drive and they theoretically should be available to you. I’ve not tried it with multiple indexed locations, however, so I don’t know how they integrate.

Try that!

debe

[Kevin Monahan]

With LT2 you can also move your media files, but use the Edit>Preferences to move them.

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[Debe]

Oh, I didn’t move the LT files ‘cos I was happy with the 39 gigs. I also figured I’d more likely have use for the LT files on my laptop. I don’t honestly see myself doing much Motion, SoundTrack Pro or DVDSP work on my laptop. I just want to be able to connect to that FW drive when I need to if I ever move a project from my G5 tower to my laptop to take to a client office or whatever. Then I’d likely wnat to have access to all the resources of each app.

I’d guess there’s a similar function in LT, though. With some of the apps you do have to keep all the template & specialized media together. From what I figured out trying to move these files is that some apps can only look at one place for the media at a time, unlike STP.

Hope this makes sense!!

debe