Hey Everyone,
 
I'm a bit of an Omnisphere addict, and have a ton of purchases expansion packs. I had them with Omnisphere 1 and would install them by dragging them into my Patches Folder. Then when I upgraded to Omnisphere 2, all of those were still there, but for newer expansions that came with a .omnisphere file, I'd install them the new way (right click Omnisphere and install .omnisphere file).
 
Now I just reformatted my computer and am in the process of reinstalling everything. Apparently in order to add older expansion packs to Omnisphere 2 you have to drag the folders to the "User" folder under Patches. However, if you do that, you don't get them in the main Directory listing in Omnisphere and have to instead click on User... Which wouldn't be so bad (still annoying though) but IS bad because under the User directory, after clicking on a Category (expansion pack) the only info I get is Author instead of the usual Type,  Mood and Genre columns.
 
Does anyone know any way around this short of contacting every older expansion pack company and asking if they have .omnisphere files available now?

If you backed up your Spectrasonic's Steam folder they're there and already set up. 
 

I did and I might try dragging them back over from there to see if that works but I'm assuming it won't since wouldn't that be basically the same as dragging the downloaded versions of these folders?
 
In the meantime I did find a semi-solution...  Under Browser Settings there's a button called "Category Sensitive Attributes" and if I uncheck it I can set the columns to the same Type / Complexity / Author as the main directory entries and stays for every library. That'll work for now. still would like to get them all in the main directory, but this works for now till i hear back from Spectrasonics or maybe try dragging those folders from my steam backup

Really sounds like you're doing it the hardway.
 
I just copied my whole Steam folder from old PC to New, pointed Spectrasonics 2 to it and bang - everything was there installed and configured. No extra steps or configuring required.
It's was one the most painfree migrations I've done in setting up my new HD.
 
Here's link to someone dealing with same issue:
https://audiosex.pro/thre...sphere-to-new-pc.8917/
 
You have my condolences and sympathies.
My OS got corrupted (long story of no relevance) so I moved the hard drive into an older PC I had - it still runs but very, very badly and I wouldn't be surprised it won't boot tomorrow; so I've been setting up a new HD from scratch. I've been at this a couple of weeks and I'm still have stuff to install and or license.  
 

Yeah I know but I just wanted as much of a from scratch install of everything as possible because after this I'm making some really solid drive images for the future haha, so I didn't want to carry over any potential issues from the last probably 7-8 years of setups across 2 computers ( which I did transfer steam between last time ).

> I didn't want to carry over any potential issues from the last probably 7-8 years of setups 
 
Certainly can understand that. Good luck!

John from PlugInGuru figured it out. I don't know if it's because it's a large number of expansions I was trying to add at once or just a new thing with Omnisphere 2, but after hitting the library refresh button, I needed to exit Omnisphere and Sonar, then start them back up for the refresh to fully go through (unlike back in the Omnisphere 1 days where a refresh would work right then and there). But doesn't matter cause now I got all my expansions in the main directory. Awesome :-)

Not a helpful post I know but, there are expansion packs for Omnisphere? Seriously I don't know why, but it never occurred to me that such a thing might exist. Apparently I've got some googling to do. Thanks for the tip.

JohanSebatianGremlin
Not a helpful post I know but, there are expansion packs for Omnisphere? Seriously I don't know why, but it never occurred to me that such a thing might exist. Apparently I've got some googling to do. Thanks for the tip.

Oh man haha, I literally have bought at least 30. They're my favorite sounds. Check out PlugInGuru, Auditory, and The Unfinished. They make some of the best packages for it. Some are just synth based and some include samples as part of the present (Omni2), and some multis too.

John "Skippy" Lehmkuhl (PlugInGuru) is the best, Audiority and The Unfinished are quite fine, but Luftrum is yet another must-have.