Moving Pro Tools to another internal drive

[BlueThursday]

Currently I have Pro Tools LE installed on the main hard drive (same as the OS, etc) with a second internal drive for all saved sessions, etc. I bought a second internal hard drive and would like to move applications to that drive and Pro Tools is the most used Program I have on the Mac Pro. I'm currently running 10.5.8 but have a SL disc.

I tried to install 8.0.3 using the full installer from my account but it didn't give me the option to install to another drive, the location tab just took me back a few steps and this cycle continued. Finally I gave up and just hit Install and it put 8.0.3 on the main drive.

Since I have a few additional plug-ins (purchased Massey, etc), has anyone experienced any problems with just uninstalling 8.0.3 and then reinstalling on the Applications drive? How does moving the plug-ins work? I haven't done this on a Mac before and don't want to mess anything up, the previous threads don't really address this particular issue.

[sunburst79]

Pro Tools (the application) needs to be installed to your operating system drive. Theres no need to move the actual program.

[BlueThursday]

Why does it need to be on the same drive as the OS? Other programs don't need to be on the system drive to function.

[albee1952]

Originally Posted by BlueThursday

Why does it need to be on the same drive as the OS? Other programs don't need to be on the system drive to function.

Why do you need to move it?

[BlueThursday]

Don't need to but want to, same reason why everyone else does it.

[FajitaTone]

try using symbolic links to move the SW. google it.

[huzzam]

There should be no problem putting Pro Tools on any drive you like, but there's also no advantage to doing it, as Albee said. Loading the program & plug-ins requires so little disk activity, that you really needn't bother worrying about it. Unless you like timing the time PT takes to start up, and worrying about 5 seconds either way, or something. It won't affect performance of the program *at all*.

Sessions & audio & samples, however: yep put *those* on a separate drive for sure. 7200 rpm or more; firewire, esata, or internal is fine. (Firewire 400 gives you, not accounting for overhead, 173 mono tracks at 24bit/96kHz... Let's call it 140 with overhead. You really gonna use more than that?)

(& Who are all these "everybodys" that are "doing it?" Maybe they should start spending their time making music instead )

~peter in oakland

[mindnoise]

Just like to add:
As OS X is Unix you can put your stuff wherever you want as long as you link everything correctly.

It´s just the the Mac OS X Frontend don´t support it in a way to give you easy choices to screw up your system.
Obivously to keep everything simple for the average GUI-spoiled OS X user.
But it does not omit it.

The TERMINAL app and some knowledge of UNIX and you can arrange everything as you want it to be.
Just as about every second Linux user does.

best