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Moving BB FILES #826358 10/21/24 01:32 PM Help! Tech S.O.S (Off topic)
Joined: Apr 2018 Posts: 150 goofeyfoot OP Apprentice
OP goofeyfoot Apprentice Joined: Apr 2018 Posts: 150	Hello: I have my BB folder on my C Drive. It is taking an immense amount of space and so I want to move it to one of the other drives on my computer if possible. What is the best way to do that without breaking something? Thanks for your help. Michael AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12 Core Processor. 3.79 GHZ; RAM = 32.00 GB; 64 Bit Operating System; Windows 10; Focusrite 8i18 External Card; Real Band; Band in a Box; Coyote Forte Wave Table; Oxygen 49 MIDI Controller

Re: Moving BB FILES goofeyfoot #826369 10/21/24 04:36 PM Help! Tech S.O.S (Off topic)
Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 26,320 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY Matt Finley Veteran
Matt Finley Veteran Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 26,320 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY	Hi. Oh yes, it's certainly possible. We just had another thread about this, although the request was more complicated. First, back up any songs you have written and any custom styles you may have created, just to be safe. Is this a Windows computer, or Mac? Are you quite comfortable moving files and folders? If not, please contact PG Music Support (see the Tab, above). We fellow users cannot take any responsibility for you losing files, although if you have your external USB drive from PG Music, you can always reinstall. These instructions are for Windows. Mac would be a similar process by dragging folders but I can't help with that. If you are comfortable proceeding, make a folder on your 'other' internal drive (I'll call it Drive E for this example) and name that folder BB, so the location would be E:/BB Then using a file manager utility (I use Total Commander but File Explorer will do) copy the C:/BB/RealTracks folder to E:/BB and copy C:/BB/Drums to E:/BB so those two folders appear under E:/BB Copying the RealTracks folder especially may take a long time! Go into BIAB and use the Options, Preferences, RealTracks and choose a Custom location. It would be E:/RealTracks. Do the same process for Options, Preferences, Drums choosing E:/Drums Test BIAB Once you are sure everything works, you can consider deleting the two folders on your C drive, C:/BB/RealTracks and C:/BB/Drums BIAB 2024 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 6.5 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6; Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus Studio 192, Presonus Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors

Re: Moving BB FILES Matt Finley #826379 10/21/24 05:00 PM Help! Tech S.O.S (Off topic)
Joined: Apr 2018 Posts: 150 goofeyfoot OP Apprentice
OP goofeyfoot Apprentice Joined: Apr 2018 Posts: 150	Thanks! Will give it a try. AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12 Core Processor. 3.79 GHZ; RAM = 32.00 GB; 64 Bit Operating System; Windows 10; Focusrite 8i18 External Card; Real Band; Band in a Box; Coyote Forte Wave Table; Oxygen 49 MIDI Controller

Re: Moving BB FILES goofeyfoot #826681 10/25/24 06:19 AM Help! Tech S.O.S (Off topic)
Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 9,791 Middlesex, NC Guitarhacker Veteran
Guitarhacker Veteran Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 9,791 Middlesex, NC	If this is the real tracks and the real drums, it's a simple process of copying it to the new location and then going into the setting in BB and redirecting the program to look for the files in the new location. Another way to do this is to save all of your projects in a different folder which you should be doing anyway..... and then remove the program and reinstall it using the minimal install, leaving the big stuff on the hard drive and installing only the essentials on the C drive OR... do a custom install and tell it to install your big folders (the real tracks) on the drive you want. I always use the minimal install using the factory HD for the big stuff. You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.com Add nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both. The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.

Re: Moving BB FILES goofeyfoot #827067 Yesterday at 11:08 PM Help! Tech S.O.S (Off topic)
Joined: Apr 2017 Posts: 1,403 Sillie Con Valley, California Mike Halloran Expert
Mike Halloran Expert Joined: Apr 2017 Posts: 1,403 Sillie Con Valley, California	Quote If this is the real tracks and the real drums, it's a simple process of copying it to the new location... For those of us with the Audiophile edition, these two folders occupy nearly 2TB drive space. BIAB is no slower if you read those files directly from the hard drive that is shipped to us. As Hetb says, it's simple to show BIAB where they are located, BIAB 2024 Audiophile, 24Core/60CoreGPU Core M2 MacStudioUltra/8TB/192GB Sonoma, M1 MBAir, 2012 MBP Digital Performer11, LogicPro Finale27/Dorico/Encore/SmartScorePro64/Notion/Overture

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