SSD not showing my samples in plugins

[Thenewexhibit]

Hello! I have my SSD sample drive that has all of my Slate and Superior Drummer samples, and upon trying to open Steven Slate Drums 5.5, it asks me for the location of my samples and none are available. If I click ignore, it's already selected on where to look in the settings of the plugin, but if I try to reselect it, the drive shows up, but says there is nothing on the drive. That is of course false, because I can see it all on the finder. I thought this was a Steven Slate problem only, so I tried Superior Drummer, and the same thing. I selected the location in Superior Drummer, and once again, it's showing that my sample drive has non contents, which is again false.

Is there some reason that perhaps Pro Tools is not recognizing things? I'm on Pro Tools 2020.12.0 and Mac OS Catalina 10.15.7.

[unkJE]

Change the default location of Sound Libraries in Pro Tools Preferences>Operation

In Windows, the default location is
Users\Username\Documents\Pro Tools\Sound Libraries

Hit the “Change button” and select
“Name of your Samples drive”\Sound Libraries
My location = k:\Sound Libraries\

[Thenewexhibit]

Originally Posted by unkJE

Change the default location of Sound Libraries in Pro Tools Preferences>Operation

In Windows, the default location is
Users\Username\Documents\Pro Tools\Sound Libraries

Hit the “Change button” and select
“Name of your Samples drive”\Sound Libraries
My location = k:\Sound Libraries\

Thank you for getting back to me! You know what, I found out what it was... I looked in "Security and Privacy" in System Preferences of my Mac, and it turns out that "Removable Volumes" was not checked. Once I checked that and restarted Pro Tools, my samples show up now, which is quite strange though because my External Session Drive was working and playing the session... Does that all make sense? haha either way, seems to be working.

[unkJE]

Glad you got it sorted – happy music making!

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by Thenewexhibit

Thank you for getting back to me! You know what, I found out what it was... I looked in "Security and Privacy" in System Preferences of my Mac, and it turns out that "Removable Volumes" was not checked. Once I checked that and restarted Pro Tools, my samples show up now, which is quite strange though because my External Session Drive was working and playing the session... Does that all make sense? haha either way, seems to be working.

Makes no sense. When I ran OSX 10.9.5 (your profiles hows that OSX) on my old iMac I didn't have to do anything in Security & Privacy. And now in High Sierra I can't find anywheres in S&P to select 'removable volumes'.

[Thenewexhibit]

Originally Posted by unkJE

Glad you got it sorted – happy music making!

Thank you! I appreciate it!!!

[Thenewexhibit]

Originally Posted by musicman691

Makes no sense. When I ran OSX 10.9.5 (your profiles hows that OSX) on my old iMac I didn't have to do anything in Security & Privacy. And now in High Sierra I can't find anywheres in S&P to select 'removable volumes'.

Yeah, I'm really not sure! I'm running OS 10.15.7 Catalina, so maybe it's something different or different kinds of permissions? I may have told Pro Tools to not have access to my samples drive when installing Pro Tools on my new system, so maybe that's why it was unchecked.

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by Thenewexhibit

Yeah, I'm really not sure! I'm running OS 10.15.7 Catalina, so maybe it's something different or different kinds of permissions? I may have told Pro Tools to not have access to my samples drive when installing Pro Tools on my new system, so maybe that's why it was unchecked.

Apple must have changed things then as there's no drive selection in High Sierra's Security & Permissions. You may want to update your profile to reflect your current system.

[Thenewexhibit]

Originally Posted by musicman691

Apple must have changed things then as there's no drive selection in High Sierra's Security & Permissions. You may want to update your profile to reflect your current system.

Got ya! Oh, shoot! I didn't realize that my specs are included on my account and postings. I don't see them here, so I assumed they were'n't visible. Thank you for the heads up!