5/17/2023 0 Comments Symboliclinker sierra![]() I do backups regularly, but haven't cloned my main drive in awhile, so will do that first. Thank you, Greg for the comprehensive and useful information. Not a bad idea to restart your Mac first. Now when you launch FCP the system will follow the link to find the files on the external drive. Do not create aliases or they will fail in the future. In Finder your MotionTemplets directory will now have a small red arrow indicating a link, unfortunately this is the same indicator for both aliases and symbolic links, but they are not the same. Press "enter/return" and your symbolic link should be created. This will create the link from the MotionTemplets folder on your Mac to the external drive. Otherwise you must type in the path including any // or "", etc…Īdd a space then drag and drop the old now empty MotionTemplet Folder into the Terminal Window. Now the easiest way is to drag and drop the new just created folder from the external drive into the Terminal window, this creates the path the link will go to. Open Terminal, type ln -s (thats a lowercase L) Here you want to move the contents but leave the Directory named MotionTemplets in original location ![]() This is just file security till everything works out and then can be deleted. Here is one article that describes how to create symlinks…Ĭopy Motion Templets Folder and contents to new location.Ĭreate temporary folder on desktop and move Motion Templets contents only and renaming/appending "old" to folder name. PLEASE PLEASE BACK UP YOUR DRIVE! Not a bad idea to have several back-ups! This has/is changing with different versions of macOS. If you get errors while trying to write to a system directory, you would need to disable SIP first, make the additions then reenable SIP. It is getting somewhat harder when changing system directories as the directory may be protected via System Integrity Protection (SIP) in Finder. Ok I'm lying, you can use a GUI interface like SymbolicLinker or write an Apple Script/Automator action, but Terminal is easier and more reliable. To create a symlink, in macOS you need to use Terminal. So you are looking to create a symlink not an alias. You must remember to have the external drive mounted or you will get errors or in the case of Logic it will try to download the sound files from Apple. I moved them to a sd card to free up internal drive space and not block one of my other I/O ports. I use this for all my Logic/GarageBand sound files to free up space. This is built into UNIX, the underlying OS in Macs. Yes you can move files/folders/directories to external drives then create a symbolic link (sym link or -s) that tells the OS where file is located.
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