Changing VI directory paths en masse?

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Changing VI directory paths en masse?

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After migrating to a new machine, I moved my VIs libraries to an SSD. Now when I launch a project it gets a beachball and will not load unless I activate the old drive with the VI programs (patches). I can go in and reload the VIs one by one but that could be very time consuming in the bigger projects.

Any of you guru types know a way to tell all the VIs to look somewhere else for their patches in one fell swoop?

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Re: Changing VI directory paths en masse?

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I'm not sure, but I think you'll need to go into each virtual instrument's preferences and set a new path to its library folder. I know this isn't much help, but hopefully someone will fill in the details.

Good luck!

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Some VIs don't seem to have a default path setting. I'm doing the piece by piece changes now. Ugh! What a PITA! Thanks Mike.
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You could create partitions on the drive with your old drive names?
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cuttime wrote:You could create partitions on the drive with your old drive names?
Yeah, I thought of that but the SSD boot drive doesn't seem to want to be partitioned in Disk Utility. I created the folder with the same name. Maybe a disk omg of the VI library placed on the boot drive? I'll try that...
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