KICK 2 VST WINDOWS

So, the correct way to actually backup the contents, is to NOT copy the parent directory containing the SymbLink, but instead, actually copy the SymbLink to the destination for backup and Windows will treat that link as if IT WERE the actual folder called User Presets. If there was anything in that folder, including subdirectories, they would not copy over. So, if your Symbolic Link was called User Presets, it would look like a regular shortcut when it's in the MyDocuments folder, but when you copy the parent directory, in this case the MyDocuments folder, you will see that you backedup MyDocuments as well as a folder called User Presets, but that folder will be empty. You see, if you copy or backup the MyDocuments folder, it will also make a backup copy of only the folder that is Symbolically Linked. Ok.so what? How about copying the MyDocuments directory by direct copy or File Sync. If you click on the Symbolic Link, it will take you to the user presets folder. If you create a Junction, the MyDocuments folder will now contain a Symbolic Link (Shortcut-looking icon). In there I would see a 'Shortcut Link' to the Sonic User Presets folder, but it's actually NOT a Shortcut link. So, my destination directory would be the MyDocuments folder. You see, when you create a Junction, you're actually creating what appears to be a 'type' of Shortcut Link in the destination directory. I hope this next bit of information will avoid some inherent confusion because the documentation only explains use of this feature as a data access convenience but not as a solution for backing up data.

That makes sense, right? I think the Junction is probably a better solution as it doesn't require clock cycles to determine changes in the source folder.Īfter creating a 'Junction' I found a limitation. I just didn't think of synchronizing contents in real time (or time delay the sync) because I don't want to use clock cycles to do anything but run my DAW.

Actually, that is what I use to synchronize files. The second method is by all means identical as FreeFileSync but with a much more powerful, far easier, and intuitive setup. You can choose to delay the updating in increments of seconds. FreeFileSync has a function called RealTimeSync which creates a duplicate of the contents of a source folder to a target folder, dynamically meaning, if a file changes, is created, or deleted in the updates the target in real time. I came up with a two other ways of achieving similar results after I posted the question.

KICK 2 VST HOW TO

You can think of them like advanced aliases and here’s how to use them in MacOS. Symbolic links, also known as symlinks, are special files that point to files or directories in other locations on your system.

KICK 2 VST MAC

How to Create and Use Symbolic Links (aka Symlinks) on a Mac So this is working fine under MacOS, I know that the principle of symbolics links also exist under windows, here is a link about symlink on mac and on that page you'll also find a link to explain to you how it should work under Windows. You get the idea, for the application it's then transparent because there's still a presets folder where it's expected to be but in fact thanks to symlink, your presets will be saved under your linked folder in 'my documents'.

On macOS, one could achieve what you're telling about using symbolic links ( aka simlinks ) but I assume that you're on Windows since you're writing 'my Documents' & not 'Documents'īasically the use of symbolic links would consist of moving your original kick 2 presets folder to your 'my documents' folder and to create a symbolic link from there that you should move back into your original kick 2 folder and giving to it the same name as the original 'presets' taking care to remove any symlink extension into the folder name. I'm not aware of a way to achieve this, since there's no option to change/choose the path for saving Kick 2 Presets.

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