In my case I have a big spacious drive called BIG where I have a top level folder called /Library, where I've built an Application Support folder into which I've copied the Logic and the GarageBand folders from the boot drive's /Library/Application Support folder. A symbolic link can make your target drive look like part of your boot drive. Logic will thus go to your target drive to use loops etc, and when it downloads loops etc from Apple it will store them there. You do this by creating symbolic links that redirect any read or write by apps to more spacious locations on what we'll call your target drive. There are GarageBand and Logic folders in /Library/Application Support on your boot drive that you will want be redirected to your desired target drive.
A symbolic Link is like an "alias" or a "shortcut" except that it works at a deeper level in the OS, so it totally fools applications into thinking it's a folder. It's much better to create symbolic links from the command line.
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Make sure you have a full working backup of your system drive before doing anything, so if you go wrong you can quickly and easily roll back and restore from that backup. Why doesn't Apple answer the questions that we ask about Logic Pro? Every other sample library makes it easy to put their samples on external hard drives - yours does not. We have no room for all of these samples. Everyone is switching to small and fast SSD drives that cannot hold a ton of content. Is there a simple, step by step method out there with instructions that anyone (and I do mean ANYONE) can follow? Once we get into Terminal I get a bit nervous. I downloaded a free app, Symlink, ad tried to do it the way it was explained but so far, no luck.
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plus I have seen many post on the web stating that this does not work Everyone talks about using symbolic links. I have tried making Aliases but each and every time I reopen Logic, it says that I need to download essential content. I want to remove all of the Logic content including Apple Loops, to an external hard drive. I am trying to do something that should be easy but Apple has made terribly difficult to do.
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