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Aug 3, 2024, 1:47:47 PM8/3/24

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Razvan: Not sure what you mean. A Finder window shows you the files and folders inside a folder. You certainly can look at the Documents folder with a Finder window. That's how you do it. I guess I don't understand what you are asking here.

Gary, I am trying to see the Documents (and Desktop folder) as subfolders when in my home directory to move things around easily. After syncing the Desktop and Documents folder to iCloud, I can only see these two folders from the side pane of the Finder or the Terminal but not as subfolders from my home directory. These two folders seem to have gotten hidden somehow from the home directory, probably to flag that they are in sync on iCloud. Thanks.

Razvan: Your Home holder is your local folder at /Users/yourname/ If Documents and Desktop are in iCloud Drive, they aren't there but in iCloud Drive. You would see them when you select iCloud Drive from the left sidebar, or Go, iCloud Drive.

I get a lot of "Operation not permitted" when I run the find command.
How can I adjust the permissions to avoid this?
Seems a while back there was a command to "Fix Permissions" globally on a Mac drive.
e.g find: ./Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari: Operation not permitted

Paul: Is your account Standard instead of Admin? Not sure why it would give you the errors, but just ignore them. The idea here is to find large files you can deal with. If it can't see into a library folder it doesn't matter.

Suggestion: I would love to see a list of the Term. Commands posted here in the comments. Then we could copy and paste them into a "NOTE" for future use. I love your work and keep it up for our Community!

I had to restart my iMac and now it won't boot up because I don't have enough space left on my hard drive. I want to delete some large files using Terminal, which I accessed using Cmd + R. What command should I use to get to the Documents folder? Pwd gives me: /var/root.

Unable to boot in safe mode. I have a backup of my files, so not too worried. I tried reinstalling MacOS, but not enough free space. My only option is Terminal.
I get the following response: /var/root/Documents: No such file or directory.

JC: First, realize that starting with / you are indicating you are giving the full path. So cd /Shared means you want the Shared folder at the TOP level. So, if you are in the Users directory already, cd /Shared doesn't care and will still go to "Shared" at the top level. If you want to go to the Shared directory under the current directory, then cd Shared (no slash( is what you need.

Second, when you are in Users, if you do ls you only see "Shared"? Nothing else? You should see a list of folder names, including your Home directory. Note it isn't one per line, they are separated by spaces.

Tom: The commends use . which means to start in the current folder. So just move to where you want to look. But note that doing it above the user folder doesn't make sense in most cases. What is it you are looking for?

I had to downgrade my main Apple OS disk because of a graphics glitch and because of that I had to reinstall Logic. Logic keeps asking to download the audio content, but the audio content is already downloaded on a separate drive in the same machine. When I go to Relocate Sound Library it seems to see the library on HDData but it's greyed out and won't let me select it. Also when I select Sound Library Manager, it clearly can't "see" the sounds that are already on the other disk. What can I do about this except re-download the entire thing? See attached.

Alternatively, you could rename the library folder on the external drive (temporarily) to some other name. After downloading the "Essential Sounds" (or some other small) library, relocate it to the external HD. This creates all necessary symbolic links in macOS system folders, pointing to the library on external. After that delete the newly relocated Library folder and rename the existing (fully downloaded) folder back to "Library" (or whatever it's normally called). Can't guarantee it will work, though, since Logic apparently registers the sound library components as installed through installation receipts. You might have to combine these two methods.

Note: I personally find the Sound Library Manager a total mess. In my experience, it's never worked properly, and the way it treats users' time is outrageous. For example, it cannot detect previously installed library content (say, after it had been moved to an external drive and after macOS has been freshly reinstalled, like in the OP's case), although Logic itself can load samples and presets just fine. And to add insult to injury, the installation status is defined through installation receipts which are stored in a separate system folder. It's as if Logic and Sound Library Manager are two totally different apps developed by separate dev teams. Could SLM's development have been outsourced? I don't know, but whoever came up with SLM in its present shape and form should probably look for another career.

I downloaded the essential sounds and it still shows the existing sounds grayed out. Thank you for this link. I have these sounds installed on my studio machine and I should be able to get the receipts file from there. I'll try it and report back

As for the external drive being greyed out, have you renamed the folder on external to something other than "Library"? Logic's SLM obviously still detects that library files already exist on the drive. From my experience, once you rename that folder, the disk should become available for relocation. You might have to quit Logic, rename the folder, eject the disk and plug it in again, wait for it to mount, then launch Logic again.

David, yes it is quite obscure, so I can't agree more on that. Aren't you curious about how the Sound Library Manager works exactly, though? I'm still wondering how exactly it handles disk space when performing content download / installation

After re-naming "Library" I was able to get the application to move the essential sounds over to the Data Drive. Then I deleted the contents of the newly created "Library" folder and replaced it with the stuff that was in the renamed file. The Sound Library Manager still can't see the samples on the other drive, but I played around with it for a bit and opened Alchemy. Alchemy showed me a progress bar (see attached) which probably lasted less than a minute, then all the sounds were available in the program. Same with Drummer. So clearly it found them on the drive and didn't re-download all those massive files.

So I think it will grab what it needs when it needs it but at this point, you'd think it would update the Sound Library Manager, such that once it "knows" the sounds are there, it checks it off in SLM as already downloaded. I have the full library but I imagine this would be hell for someone who had meticulously downloaded only stuff they needed because of disk space or whatever.

I closed the file and re-opened it, just to see if it would re-open Alchemy again immediately or whether it would have to do that refresh. It didn't. Those sounds were right there in the plugin and still not checked off in the SLM.

OK so I did the receipts trick and at first I thought it didn't work. The SLM showed "Installed" next to (most of) the sounds in the library but on the left there were no indicators in the check boxes that it could see the files. I had to come into my studio and open Logic here to realize that there are no checks in the boxes by default.

Interesting side note - on all but one of my computers I'm running macos in a hackintosh (PC hardware) and somehow pasting all the Receipts from my studio machine (Apple keyboard, PC hardware) screwed up the keyboard settings on my laptop (Windows keyboard pretending to be an Apple keyboard). I'll have to figure out how to undo that.

I putted a 3th drive on it and moved the basic new library to there with logic as the 3th don't show grey but white. So according Logic thats where the sounds are. Then I deleted the logic file of disk 3 (the basic one) and copied the big library to there from disk 2. After that I deleted the big library from disk 2. So the big one is now on the 3th where according Logic your sounds are. After that you can open Logic and from there switch all back to disk 2 as it don't show this grey anymore.

Hey all, just wanted to chime in. I'm in the same boat: I have the full 60GB Library from the Application Support > Logic folder (meaning they were all installed previously), but when I go to paste them back to that location after an OS refresh, Logic doesn't see them.