Saving Presets & Saving Drive Space

Scaler 3 General Discussion
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Question: Right now the default location for saving user presets, templates, states, and chordsets is on your computer’s internal hard drive. Can these be safely moved to an external HD or SSD?

Some specifics: Right now the default save for chordsets is users / [my name] / library / Scaler Music / scaler 3 / chordsets/ default. The default save for templates and state-saves is
Users / my name / library / Scaler Music / scaler 3 / presets / user

The latter in particular can be enormous files, especially if you’re using third-party plugins - I’ve got some saved states that are 100mb+. I’d love to put them on my 4tb external SSD. Can I just do that, or are there tricks I need to navigate?

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In macOS, you can use Soft Links: Copy or Move the specific directory to an external drive, (then delete the source directory if it still exists), then make a soft link (sudo ln -s [path-to-Destination-directory] [original name of removed directory]). macOS will recognize the link and you’ll now be able to save to and read from the moved directory on the external drive.