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Originally Posted by dominicperry
New installs only. If JFreak (Moderator) was around, he'd back me up.
Apple's migration utility used to work well, but in my experience, no longer does.
On Windows, the registry made this kind of thing impossible - you would always have to install from scratch. But on MacOS, you could just copy an application and it would function (because all the components to make it work were hidden inside the "package").
I'm not sure what has changed, but many applications simply don't work unless you reinstall from scratch. And most plugins need a plugin manager installed first, before you then install the plugs themselves. I suspect there are files hidden all over the place, mostly as part of licensing and copy-protection.
Either way, I suspect that you will save time by just accepting that you must install from scratch. If you're using 2013 Trashcans, then the last time you did this was 9 years ago, so not too onerous 
Dominic |
I think you need to differentiate between the software/plug-in installations which I agree you need to do from scratch and the content/library installation which you don’t need to install from scratch. Simply copy the data to the new system.
The process of relinking content to new software installations is pretty straightforward in most cases and there have been very few times I’ve had to re-download any content. Just as well because I would need to re-download 6TB of data here! Native Instruments actually encourages you not to re-download content and relink..
There’s info on doing it here with useful links:
https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare...ibrary-content
Spectrasonics info here.
https://www.spectrasonics.net/suppor...&categoryID=21