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  • Downloading Synchron Series to external SSD

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    When I try and install a Synchron series item, it is saying 'Downloads directly into the content location'. Usually I try and download everything to an external SSD so I can more quickly reinstall as necessary . is this not possibly with Synchron series?

    I thought it was as you can buy a Synchron hard drive...

    Thanks for the help

    edit: looking further this seems to be a similar pattern with other products including Studio series... is something changed in the assistant? or how do I say where the download should go to?
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    as a further update... some products are still allowing me to choose the download location, but others have this green text that says "Downloads directly into the content location".

    Maybe I can just copy it somewhere else after and that's fine... as long as it isn't requiring double the space during installation or anything like that?
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    The new compressed libraries download in-place to the destination, as uncompressing them no longer makes sense.

    Like you I was keeping a copy of all download libraries, but do this no longer for the new format and am super happy with it.

    Vienna Assistant can also use that directly to update etc., and I believe you could simply it to a new volume or new computer and have Vienna Assistant verify it, without downloading everything again.

    Compressed libraries allow to have more libraries in the same space and cut down on I/O bandwidth (allowing more voices / instruments) which more than makes up for the amount of CPU processing required to decompress them on modern computers.

    Overall a big win, I'd like VSL to speed up the transition of all libraries to the compressed format.
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    @badibeat said:
    modern computers

    modern computers

    ha. I run everything on a 2012 MBP which I have upgraded to 16GB RAM and 2 4TB SSD drives and running Monterey on it ... it runs awesome... hopefully this new setup is ok for me lol

    edit: everything seems great so far... I just added my first libraries that used this new format, but doesn't seem to be any problems...

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    @Jason-Archibald said:
    @badibeat said:
    modern computers

    modern computers



    ha. I run everything on a 2012 MBP which I have upgraded to 16GB RAM and 2 4TB SSD drives and running Monterey on it ... it runs awesome... hopefully this new setup is ok for me lol

    Lower i/o will likely also help you with the SATA SSDs, even if you have to do with just 4 cores ; )

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    @badibeat said:
    @Jason-Archibald said:

    @badibeat said:
    modern computers



    modern computers







    ha. I run everything on a 2012 MBP which I have upgraded to 16GB RAM and 2 4TB SSD drives and running Monterey on it ... it runs awesome... hopefully this new setup is ok for me lol


    Lower i/o will likely also help you with the SATA SSDs, even if you have to do with just 4 cores ; )

    good to know! thanks