For reasons of capacity on my hard drive C:\, I decided to move the Realtracks and drums to another SSD drive a few months ago.
A few days ago I installed the Biab 2024 update on the other "external" drive.
For security reasons, so that there are (possibly?) no installation conflicts, I slightly changed the name of the original Biab folder on the system disk C:\ so that it cannot be accessed (if necessary) during the installation of the upgrade.
I have to say, everything worked perfectly and Biab runs great, always started from the external drive. The 2024 update is awesome anyway.
Now my question, since I'm a bit timid when it comes to installations and deleting folders ;-):
Now can I really delete Biab (and also the Realtrack program, which I've never used because of my DAW...) from the system drive C:\? Because of my slight change to the Biab folder (see screenshot), it can no longer be accessed there anyway.
When you updated to 2024, did you get the full version of 2024 on a USB drive or did you update by download only? If you installed BIAB 2024 from the USB drive, which option did you choose?
I've only been getting updates via download for several years. A few years ago I started installing everything on "C" (system). Now the space is starting to get tight. So I had been packing all the Drums and Realtracks onto another internal SSD for about a year, which is drive "K" for me. I'm glad everything works. If I can or will soon delete the original Biab program folder on the "C" drive (it's practically already deactivated at least for the time being because I wanted to be absolutely sure....), then I'll have a little more space on the "C" drive again.
If you copied your bb folder to another hard drive and you are running the program from that new location, then yes there is no problem with deleting the C:\bb folder.
Now can I really delete Biab (and also the Realtrack program, which I've never used because of my DAW...)
Possibly you are referring to RealBand? Note that RealBand takes up a very small amount of disk space because it uses RealTracks and RealDrums etc from the BiaB installation. However, there is no issues with removing it if you wish.
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I long since moved my RealTracks to a separate drive. They take up the better part of a 2 TB drive in the audiophile version; not something I want on my C drive.
You didn't ask this, but my understanding is that as long as you use the same computer, the activation of that copy of BIAB means it will run from anywhere you install it on that computer. Andrew said you could delete the C:/BB folder, so I guess the activation files are stored elsewhere. I would have expected that C:/BB/Data/TicketsActivated folder had to remain, but I guess it's ok as long as it gets copied to another drive.
I do know there are a few other files such as the PG Music fonts that will remain on your C drive; they were never in the /BB folder. They are small, as I understand it, but it's been decades since I examined this.
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thanks for the tip. I know well, "Realband" hardly takes up any space. But I've never used it because with Cubase Pro I have everything I need, from that point of view.
Hello Matt, you are right, there is actually some data that is still written to the system disk when Biab is installed. This is also pointed out shortly before installation via the Installation Manager. Everything fine.
That's why when I reinstalled Biab 2024, I slightly changed the name of the original folder of Biab 2023 on disk "C" so that there are no system conflicts. So what needs to be written to the system disk was written when Biab 2024 (in my case on disk "K") was reinstalled, but not into the old folder, but something new was automatically created (on "C"). Now I can actually delete the old Biab folder 2023 (on "C"). Everything runs 1a. 😃👍
I don't think the installer would get confused; you specify the various paths when starting the installer. But it can't hurt to be safe and do it as you did.
BIAB 2024 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 6.5 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6; Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus Studio 192, Presonus Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors
I don't think the installer would get confused; you specify the various paths when starting the installer. But it can't hurt to be safe and do it as you did.
Right, I did it to be on the safe side. I'm not the top specialist when it comes to Windows and PC, but I'm not necessarily a beginner at 70 years old either 😅 So it's better to be on the safe side...
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