Okay, for anyone holding back a bit like I have on Rack 2.5, I have now installed Rack Pro 2.5.1 on my Windows machine and it is working. I am still fighting with Rack as to where to load data files from and where to save them to but hope to slowly retrain the system.
Luckily, before I started the installation, I copied my entire 16GB Rack2 folder from my SSD /Documents location to my HDD as a backup. Then in my /Documents Rack2 folder, I deleted the 14GB of files from my /recordings folder, ending up with about 2GB in the Rack2 folder. I say luckily because the installation failed to copy the user folder due to insufficient access privileges The error box suggested I manually move the files. But, I copied the folders and files to the new location, leaving the original Rack2 user folder intact since I had plenty of SSD space to do this since I had freed up 14GB from recordings move.
I did not enjoy the user experience, but hopefully it is done now.
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FWIW: Rack says “insufficient access privileges” when it runs into a problem moving the User folder, but it says that no matter what the actual problem is. The real problem is that Rack uses a naive means of copying the folder that isn’t robust, particularly on Windows.
I found the issue of why Rack won’y follow the link, if one links the moved folder back to user Documents folder. There is a subtle difference in how Fiinder creates it (via make alias) or is one creates it on the command line. The one created on the command line works fine, the one Finder creates does not. Even though that ln -s is all the Make Alias command does. Glad I have it working. only 1 shared folder between 2.4.1 and 2.5.1 now. Since I am not using any of the 2.5.1 new features yet this should be fine. When I feel it’s time to move wholesale to 2.5.1 then I will, if needed, use the new features. I foresee no issues, as I had the arm64 and intel versions of Rack side by side sharing a single directory for quite a while before I moved completely to the arm64 version.
I’m quite annoyed that the user folder has been moved to the AppData folder on Windows. My Documents folder is on another drive for a reason. My old Pigments presets were stored in the AppData folder and I ended up losing them all when my system went down and I had to reinstall Windows. There doesn’t seem to be any good reason to use the AppData folder.
Users should be given the option of where to have their user folder.
Please help! Something went wrong in the update to 2.5.1 on my mac and the Rack2 folder wasn’t moved. It isn’t in the Documents location listed on the website and it’s disappeared from my device. Is there any way to recover all of the patches that I’ve lost??
Phew! I found them. The weird thing is that they are still invisible through Finder. The Library folder isn’t showing up in Finder, but when I search local files on Chrome they are there.
I was able to access the folder by pasting its location into Go to Folder if anyone runs into the same issue. I was truly terrified for about 10 minutes looking for the new location.
I’ve just had to deinstalled the 2.5.1 update on my Mac Pro. It wiped out all of Nysynth modules and obliterated all my patches in the documents Rack folder. Nysynth modules gone. Luckily I have 2.4.1 and patch backups on another machine and will por tomorrow. Tread carefully with this one. I should have known better.
Just adding in my experience here. The update deleted (moved) all of my patches, and recordings. Now when I launch the app it begins redownloading all of the files from my one drive. (gigs and gigs and gigs worth of recordings and 3 years worth of patches) I have no idea what will happen after it downloads everything. Good thing i have decent internet speed and am not on a metered connection.
I am definitely in the camp that thinks this was an attempt to fix something that wasn’t actually broken. And it will result in a lot of ticked off users who lost control of their files and folders and cannot get the final results they want. I refuse to upgrade if it insists I change folder location.
You can pass the -u command line option to tell it what folder to use for the User folder. Rack will honor that, regardless of the new or old default values. Not saying it’s right, just saying how you can get the folder you want.
Just a quick update. I have lost all of my old patches and recordings. I am not sure where they went but they are gone from both my hard drive and my one drive. So yeah.
