File Management for Music Production

thanks so much for these videos! is the principal the same for mac?

I moved my documents folder. And now FL can’t find any of my plugins. How can I reverse what I’ve done here

Hit the dislike button twice! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

This was so perfectly helpful. Thank you.

After changing the location of the Documents folder to the second drive, can the original Documents folder on the first drive be deleted?

do u use NTFS or FAT system ?????

I’m getting an error message stating that a folder exists in the ‘Documents’ location that cannot be redirected. How do I locate this mysterious folder that is holding up my moving the Documents folder to an external SSD? If anyone can help, please respond. Thanks!

Lets do a video on how OneDrive will destroy all your settings files and VST location files. 5 years of work down the drain.

Excelent,, any advise for mac?

Thanks for your tutorials Mike where did you put your Pictures and Music Folders or did you leave them on C: drive?

For the Kontakt case, will we think the Kontakt as a plugin and all Kontakt based Instruments as Library in terms of file management?

A very newbie question: why are plugins and instrument libraries separate? Many instruments are also in VST format, do they count as plug-ins and what is the boundary between plug-ins on the C drive and instrument libraries on other drives? What are the boundaries between plugins on the C drive and instrument libraries on other drives? please answer, thank you!

Great information!😎

I've got a question. I moved my documents from the C drive to an external drive, and everything seemed to go fine. The only issue is that it didn't actually free up any space on the C drive. I checked before and after moving the folder, and the space usage remained the same. When I look at the properties of one of the folders, it shows that they're on the external drive. I'm really confused about what's happening here. Any suggestions or ideas?

Whats the diference between "instrument libraries" and " sample libraries"?

Very helpful. Especially the shortcut thing. Thank you

I work IT and when I saw you make a shortcut to fool the plugin location, I almost spit out my coffee. GENIUS MOVE. Very clever, sir! THAT is using your resources lol

Best data management tutorial ever! Thx!

Wow, Mike, What a pleasant guy

So once you move the files over to a hard disk drive do you then delete the folders files on your laptop?

Thanking you for a very informative vid. Ta.

"Dislike twice" won my like. Great content, mate.

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I’m obviously missing something here. Have tried this a few times on Win11 I just keep getting an error “ Can’t move folder because there is a folder in the same location that can’t be redirected , access is denied “
Really frustrated as I don’t want to load further plug ins until I got this licked. I’m
Only on a laptop, but do have ext drives .

Thank you.

Last year I moved my cakewalk projects to an external hardrive. When I went to work.on them next I could play them but I couldn't edit them, and I couldn't add to them. I eventually gave up on them

Awesome Awesome Video !!!! Thank You sooo much

Great, helpful vid. Thanks! Worst case scenario here - Running everything from a single laptop drive (2TB Samsung Evo SSD). Would partitioning the SSD for separating data be effectively the same as using separate drives?

Great video Mike thank you! I have one question for you. I saw that you moved your cakewalk projects off your c drive. What about other cakewalk files like the audio file folder etc? There's a huge list in the files section of the preferences. What (if any) others should we move off the c drive? I assume one creates the folder on the new drive and then set the preference to that folder within cakewalk. Then any new projects will work within those folders, while existing projects work within the old locations that they were saved to? Is any of this correct? I literally just got a ssd drive for my laptop as a second drive yesterday and need just a bit of advice. Thanks 😊

Thank you so much, sir! This really helped me a lot.

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Hi Mike - I moved one of my VST Plugins (Spitfire LABs) onto an external SSD. I'm not now getting clicks, farts, and hisses when playing the instruments - not a lot, but enough to distract. Is there something I could do to combat that? Thanks - Love the Vids!

“hit the dislike button, twice” lol

Hi! Could you please give me your opinion for the best file management for my setup?

- Mac Studio 1TB SSD, 64GB RAM
- 1TB External SSD Thunderbolt
- 1TB External SSD Thunderbolt

I need the best solution for audio recording/mix/production AND some video editing on Final Cut.

Thanks!

Man I needed this, I literally have fl studio files that are named “dasdas” “sasdsasd” thank you

Very useful reference!!thanks

thank YOU!, important, very important information👍🏽

I went through the process on my laptop to move my documents to my D drive that's in my laptop from my C drive once I completed that the document folder is still in the C drive. The question I've been having is can I delete the content that's in the document folder in C drive to clear up more space? And if I did that would it give me any problems with the stuff that's in there like my instruments😎🎼✌️

Still a great video on practical logical File Management for Music Makers! Good Work Mate!

Beautifuly done, we'll done Mike thank you very much that was super helpful

Great, informative video. Thanks!

I’ve been working off of a single 2TB SSD and have started noticing performance issues as it fills up, now I know why! As for a solution...

Would love some advice. I work on a laptop so and extra drive isn’t an option, although 2TB is enough for what I do. Would partitioning the drive have the same benefits as I’d keep all sample libraries and project files separate from the system drive? If so, how much is recommended to keep the C: drive running smoothly? A 50/50 split?

Thanks again, keep it up!

What if I have 1 main pc at home and 1 laptop for traveling?
What should I put in which computer and what should I put in external drives?

Great video again Mike. I just wondered what your thoughts are about using a partition on the C drive with just the OS and the other partition with DAW, programs etc. Makes me think that if windows ever goes down I can possibly reinstall and my programs etc remain intact and no need to reload. Would this be possible and if it is would it be a good idea?

Where would be ideal location to move things like kontakt or reason or should they be left in the c drive

Woah, my C Drive is only 232 GB, Mike's is 930! Luckily I have a 2TB D Drive

This is hands down one of the best videos on this