Fuel for CCLarry's Fire...

Having a special IK/SampleTank sort of moment again as I'm importing the Miroslav Library into my newly bought ST3... Instead of simply linking the old library, ST3 copies every frickin' sample back on my main drive and rebuild the library there. And it takes its sweet frickin' time...
 
An hour wasted (so far) and hoping that I have an option to re-move that library. When I have such an option - currently it's still "Building Instruments Database".
 
I do not want samples on my main HD - unfortunately, I was not presented with an option to prevent that. Real pro, dude... Every one in the business keep their libraries on their OS HD....
 
Dumbest, most inefficient install/upgrade I've ever seen. And I thought NI sucked. - Man...
 
And that's only a start - I still have SampleMoog, SampleTron and the rest of them... I guess that's why people pay good money for Kontakt...
 
Did I mention IK never got back to me to fix my profile in regards change my country... Not a happy customer here.
 
Great products though (I love that Opto comp!)
 
EDIT 
 
Oops - and we're done... Setting the default path to my external drive doesn't seem to work.
 
Re-oops - ST doesn't remember its own default path, so I can't simply reset it -  at this moment , in spite of over 2 hours wasted, my ST library is empty. I'll have to hunt that one down again before I can use it.
 
Man... NI really isn't that bad...
 
 

Rain
Having a special IK/SampleTank sort of moment again as I'm importing the Miroslav Library into my newly bought ST3... Instead of simply linking the old library, ST3 copies every frickin' sample back on my main drive and rebuild the library there. And it takes its sweet frickin' time...
An hour wasted (so far) and hoping that I have an option to re-move that library. When I have such an option - currently it's still "Building Instruments Database".
 
I do not want samples on my main HD - unfortunately, I was not presented with an option to prevent that. Real pro, dude... Every one in the business keep their libraries on their OS HD....
 
Dumbest, most inefficient install/upgrade I've ever seen. And I thought NI sucked. - Man...

And that's only a start - I still have SampleMoog, SampleTron and the rest of them... I guess that's why people pay good money for Kontakt...

Did I mention IK never got back to me to fix my profile in regards change my country... Not a happy customer here.
 
Great products though (I love that Opto comp!)
EDIT 
 
Oops - and we're done... Setting the default path to my external drive doesn't seem to work.
 
Re-oops - ST doesn't remember its own default path, so I can't simply reset it -  at this moment , in spite of over 2 hours wasted, my ST library is empty. I'll have to hunt that one down again before I can use it.
 
Man... NI really isn't that bad...
 
 

Sorry to hear about your woes with ST3 Rain.....I didn't upgrade, but still have all 50+ GB of library content sitting on my HD.
Speaking of which, I've never put my my library content on my OS drive as I'd just simply run out of room instantly. I have 3TB HD drive for all my samples/sounds and keep my SSD (OS Drive) for all software only.
 
Rereading your post, I'm thinking you may have meant to say that as you stated you do not want samples on your main HD, but it also says the opposite right after that.....typo?   
 
From the looks of it, IK should have taken a little more time to work out the details before (prematurely) releasing it?
 

I did manage to have the samples re-imported where I wanted them - almost seems as if ST did not register my folder preferences until I re-launched it.
 
That doesn't mean end of troubles though - every time you add a sample library to ST, like SampleMoog or Sampletank or the Sonic Reality Expansion Tanks, it rebuilds the Instrument Library Database.
 
E-VE-RY-TIME! 
 
Importing the actual samples and converting them can be a bit long, but I guess it's forgivable.
 
But currently, it's been over 90 minutes since it's started updating the database after I last added a library (Vintage Key Collection). The library itself is 1.03 GB - and that 1.03 GB is long since converted. But the "database" update is still going and bogarting my computer...
 
90 minutes to re-index a library which was 99% indexed already, and has been re-indexed a dozen time.
 
I'd decided to give the process an hour, which I thought would be enough and I was hoping to be able to start working at 7pm after hours wasted. It is currently 7:35 and it shows no sign of progress.
 
If you plan on adding samples to ST, or if you own a couple of extra libraries, plan on importing those at night or during your downtimes.
 
 
 
 
EDIT - Another fun thing: there's a loop that's missing in Sonik Synth which aborts the import. Unfortunately, it's one of the very last things to be scanned so if you're like me, you'll waste an hour trying to import Sonik Synth. The fix - get rid of that "instrument" and start the whole process over. (Yes, this mean, re-go through the database refresh...)
 
I wish I'd found this thread before. http://www.ikmultimedia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8455
 
Oh, and it looks like I'm almost done - if ST can finally get done with that last preset which it has now been stock onto importing/adding to the database for 5 minutes.
 
Next time, I re-sample everything manually in Logic's sampler - it'll take me only half the time.

More fun... After being stuck on that very last instrument for so long, I got an application not responding message.
 
Quit and restart SampleTank - what do you think happen? Building Database... Quite impressive for a piece of software which took forever to be released and was postponed innumerable times.
 
So it's now 8:05 pm, and still waiting time because of IK - I now feel as if once I'm done upgrading SampleTank will be the last thing I ever want to see again.
 
I wish IK sold hardware, in a store somewhere near. I'd show them how EXS-24 can re-index 40 GB worth of instruments in 2 seconds and probably wouldn't leave the darn store until they gave me a copy of ARC to make up for wasting my time like this...
 
 
 
 

Wow - I would have punted my cat about halfway through what you have already been through (not really).
 
I am SOOO glad I use Kontakt, instead.
 
Bob Bone
 

Rain is a mac guy too.

Rain..we all have things that send us over the edge. I have days when I am completely unglued over minor things. I simply don't post athose times :)

Feeling for you, Rain, hope this gets solved.

bapu
Krist, I read somewhere that you can cancel each the database rebuilds UNTIL the last import, if you are trying to do a slew of them at once or you don't need to use any of the imports until they are all done.

Thanks Bapu - actually I read that as well, only, I was in the process of installing my last expansions :/
 
Installing those last two expansions (aborting the database refresh after the first one) took me from 5:25 pm to 8:10 pm. At which point I cancelled the database refresh.
 
At 6 pm, having read that I could wait till all imports were done, I aborted the ongoing refresh process and imported my last library, thinking that an hour was already a surreal amount of time to import the last expansion and the rebuild the database... The rest you've read.
 
I left it rolling last night after I was done and it eventually completed the process. 
 
There's no way I'm adding anything to that library again, though.