Moving the Arturia Library from the internal hard drive to an external hard drive to save storage space on a Mac. Essentially, you’ll be creating a symlink from the original library location to the new location on an external hard drive.
Step 1 – get the file path for the current location and the new location
If you use Option + Command + C with the folder selected, it will give you the file path you need.
For example:
Current location: /Library/Arturia
New location: /Volumes/Your External Hard Drive/Arturia
Step 2 – Copy the Arturia folder to the new location
Step 3 – Rename the old Arturia library – this keeps the old folder safe
Step 4 – Check your file path is correct in terminal:
ls "/Volumes/Your External Hard Drive/Arturia"
Step 5 – Create the Symlink in terminal:
sudo ln -s "/Volumes/Your External Hard Drive/Arturia" "/Library/Arturia"
Step 6 – Check the Symlink is working, in terminal:
ls -ld "/Library/Arturia"
This should return the following to indicate it works!
/Library/Arturia -> /Volumes/Your External Hard Drive/Arturia
Step 7 – Test various Arturia instruments in Logic Pro
Step 8 – If all’s good, you can safely remove the original Arturia library from your Mac
Duplicate Arturia Presets
If you have duplicate presets after manually moving the Arturia Library to an external drive, you may need to delete the db.db3 file, located in the Arturia / Presets folder. I would rename the file rather than delete it, just in case. Once the db.db3 file has been renamed or deleted Arturia will automatically rebuild the presets database.
