Eureka, I figured it out.

SOLUTION: Rename the old C:\BB folders of Drums and RealTracks to Drums_OLD and RealTracks_OLD or You can simply unplug the external drive to avoid the issue altogether as you indicated originally.

Apparently when RealBand launches, it checks both locations and I didn't remove or delete the old folders. By simply renaming them, I didn't remove anything. As a P.S. to that, on 2014 I only had the "Pro" version which was the minimal RealTracks/Drums. I re-pointed to D:\ when I upgraded to Everything PAK because of the enormous file sizes. I compared my C:\ and D:\ RealTracks and Drum folders and aside from a couple of 3rd party sounds I had purchased, everything is the same. I moved those over to the D:\ folders and in my case I'm probably able to wipe out the old RealTracks/Drum folders on C:\BB.

Hope this helps you Musiclover. So RealBand doesn't like keeping multiple copies of the same RealTracks and Drums folders on different drives is the bottom line here. I have a 3rd drive, F:\, that I use to back up C:\ and D:\ drives. Since it's an external USB, I don't have to have it plugged in while running RealBand so I shouldn't run into the issue.



Steve

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