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Hi, I'm going to try and be as precise and to the point as I can be.

I started producing on lmms about 2 years ago and at the time did not consider how much space sounds and samples can take up, I saved all of my sounds and packs I've accumulated in my documents folder. Now I've reached the limit of my C: Drive's space and I've purchased a hard drive and am planning to move all my sounds into there.

Problem is, I have countless beats I am working on that aren't exported and since lmms uses the file location to load the files, if I migrate all my sounds, lmms won't be able to find them? I'm wondering if there is any way to tell lmms to load sounds from a specified folder, or if I either have to compile and export everything and chop the rest up as a loss, or manually re-locate all of the files after i do the move and do it that way.

Thank you for taking your time to read this, and even more if you're taking the time to help out.

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pictoruta wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 09, 2023 11:14 am

I'm wondering if there is any way to tell lmms to load sounds from a specified folder

And yes, LMMS wont (yet) find your files if you move them, but you can trick any program to use a different folder that it is connected to:
Use Sym-links
That is for windows, but something similar exists in Linux afaik
A symlink points to a different folder from the folder that the program is linked to
Read about hoe to make symlinks and what you should be careful about
https://www.howtogeek.com/16226/complet ... -or-linux/