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#351416 05/26/16 09:58 AM
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I can't remember where I put the various files (styles, soloists, real tracks etc..) in previous installations. Any way to find out the paths of all the BIAB files?

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The files are always located in subfolders of the /Applications/Band-in-a-Box/ folder. e.g. /Applications/Band-in-a-Box/Styles.

The only exception are two folders: RealTracks and Drums. You might have these in a different location and/or on a different hard drive.

To find your RealTracks folder, you could do a search (command+F) on your Mac for "RealTracks" where (kind is folder)



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Thanks Andrew, but this only partially helps.

I've been doing successive installations of BIAB and the bonus paks for a few years now, and I've lost track. I *thought* I was running the Real Traks and the Drums Traks off the USB drive that you provide.

Having a look at 2015 files, I have tracks on the USB drive which are not on the local disk and vice versa.

For example Bass, Acoustic, Bowed Held Ev 085 (and all the bowed basses) exist on my local are on my local drive but not on the USB drive. On the other hand, there are files on the USB drive (e.g. Accordion, Rhythm Pop8ths EV085) which are on the USB drive but not on my local drive. The RealTracks folder on the 2015 BIAB USB drive shows 86.34GB of files, whereas the RealTracks folder on my local drive shows 100.08GB's worth of files.

Could it be that the Bonus Paks are installing on the local drive? Does BIAB know where each file is or does it only know in which directory the RealTracks are located? If that is the case, it has no access to all Real Tracks that I have under current setup.

How do I sort this mess without installing everything on the local drive ?

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Bass, Acoustic, Bowed Held Ev 085 was likely included in the 2015 bonus pak, and you installed it on your local drive, but not on the USB drive. And you may not have installed anything else from 2015 on your local drive.

In any case, that's just an explanation for what you are seeing... but you don't even need to worry about that; your 2016 HD + BonusPAK disc has it all.


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