[Is there a way to relocate large content of creative resourses to a separate drive?]

2 hours ago, loukash said:

Logix Pro X has now this very trick built in.

It also works the other way around:
My main partition with El Capitan has over 1.5 TB, but I've set up all other bootable partitions up to Catalina only 64 GB each. I'm installing every app on the lowest possible Mac OS version and link them to the "higher" Applications folders via symlinks. With a very few exceptions, this always works without any problem, including Affinity apps. It even works with Mac App Store Apps, even though it breaks the updating mechanism on partitions with symlinks.

My meager 64 GB Catalina Partition runs not only all Affinity apps this way, but also Logic Pro X with the full circa 75 GB library, and a full Xcode install, among others.
Of course, I'm also linking more or less all home directory subfolders to my main home folder on the El Capitan partition.

The only thing that doesn't work via symlinks is sharing plist files over partitions, and any settings and prefs from sandboxed apps in ~/Library/Containers. Those need to be synced separately upon login. For that I'm using ChronoSync with many complex rules and filters. This is definitely very advanced stuff…

Other than that, symlinks are great.

Oh yes. I was running symlinks for Logic's entire library till that update happened. This is something quite common for most sample library software nowadays. But not via symlinks. Or at least without the user having to take care of that. They just give you the option to manually set an installation path for your samples and libraries via their installers. Makes sense though. I am running 1,5 TB of sample libraries this way 😂 

[Is there a way to relocate large content of creative resourses to a separate drive?]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

Probably worth including a reminder that this is an officially unsupported hack so there is no guarantee it will continue to work as expected when updating the apps to some future version.

Sure, this makes sense. I have been using the symlink solution for the audio libraries of music production software . Never had problems using this "hack" when updating to newer versions as long as the folder structure in the updates remains the same. I think in a future version update the only way to break the symlinks would be if the folder structure or the location and names of the folders would change, which would be easy to fix for me or the average user who doesn't have enough space on the main drive. 

[Is there a way to relocate large content of creative resourses to a separate drive?]

Thank you all, everything is solved now

[Is there a way to relocate large content of creative resourses to a separate drive?]

Thanks for your reply. Thank you, I am familiar with the concept of symlinks, have done it in the past for large audio libraries. I seem unable to find all the content inside the Application Support folder. Tried to hide and unhide hidden folders and nothing. I searched my mac several times and I have still found no folder related to Affinity inside Application Support. Strange! My mind got stuck here haha! I have found no folder that contains all the files downloaded and installed from Affinity store from within the app. (I've got the Serif store version).

[Is there a way to relocate large content of creative resourses to a separate drive?]

Hi! I wasn't able to find a similar question in these forums and I apologise if it was asked or answered again in the past. I was wondering if it is possible to relocate the content of creative resources to a separate drive so that the apps would read them from there. I didn't initially imagine that a single creative resource would need to install 3 times, (one time for every app on the Affinity suite), and for example I installed three times content of 3 GB that now took up almost 10 gigs of my tiny ssd system drive.

I am currently running an iMac on High Sierra

 

Thank you