Native Access - assigning download/content locations. Misinterpretation, bug or something else?

[joeyluck]

So my internal HD is lacking space.

Today I purchased a 2TB Samsung T7 (these and the T7 Shield are on sale, if you're interested).

In Native Access preferences, I have assigned both the download and content location to my external drive.

However, when I try to install the Factory Library, it still complains that there isn't enough space on my internal HD. Why does it care about my internal HD? I thought assigning the download and content locations should avoid this error.

Am I misunderstanding? Do all libraries still need internal HD space to install regardless of location settings? Should it work differently?

I quit and restarted Native Access as well as macOS.

Anybody here familiar with how this is supposed to work?

[jam-s]

They might need some space for patches and the VST2 dlls itself unless you changed the install path for the VSTs/AU as well.

[DaveyG]

I can't remember whether it was Native Access or the Roland thing but I've had the same problem in the past and it turned out to be that these things download to a temporary folder, usually in your user or temp area, then unzip/install from there to your set location. This is on Windows but I imagine the Mac is similar. And IK Multimedia download to the Documents folder and then leave the files there after they have installed. Suddenly my documents folder was 200GB bigger!

[joeyluck]

Thanks y'all I'll take a look. These are Kontakt libraries and the Kontakt VST etc. is already installed. Plus it's complaining about needing disk space for the entire size of the libraries. I put in a support ticket with NI.

[joeyluck]

So NI replied to my ticket and told me to try "Native Access 2".

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/s ... -access-2/

My version of Native Access was up to date, but I guess you have to make the decision to choose to download Native Access 2? I had no idea it existed.

I'll see if this works.