Plug-in Management

[crankygnomes]

If I make a clone of my Mac's internal hard drive on an external hard drive (using, for example, CCC) and store my 3rd party plug-ins in the proper folder on the external HD, will the DP installation on my internal HD be able to find and use them? (I'm happy to try this, but maybe someone already has, or it's common, or a silly idea ...)

Thanks.

[philbrown]

If I make a clone of my Mac's internal hard drive on an external hard drive (using, for example, CCC) and store my 3rd party plug-ins in the proper folder on the external HD, will the DP installation on my internal HD be able to find and use them? (I'm happy to try this, but maybe someone already has, or it's common, or a silly idea ...)

Thanks.

Probably not because the filepath will not match where DP thinks they should be. You might try using an alias though.

Usually the plugs themselves are not that large that you'd need to put them elsewhere, it's the huge libraries the plugs access that people usually put on second drives, like Omnisphere, Ivory, Kontakt, BFD samples, etc but the actual plug itself is miniscule by comparison so can stay on your OS drive. Most modern installers let you choose where to put the large sample libraries when you install or allow you to use an alias to redirect to it (Spectrasonics for example). More and more are specifically recommending you put the sample library on a fast internal drive that's not your OS drive.