Ableton Live - Moving Factory Packs to Another Disk (OSX)

The Ableton Factory Packs can be quite large, and you may have a few that you don't use as often as others, or that you only need when you're in the studio.   These can clutter up your main disk, especially if you're using a laptop.   One way you can have access to your packs, but also free up some room on your main disk is to move the packs to an external disk drive.

It's pretty easy:

1. Get an external drive.  Make sure it's formatted.   I prefer to have a drive specifically for samples - including Ableton Live packs, Kontakt libraries, and Reason refills.
2. Move the Factory Packs from their default location to the new drive.   <cmd>-drag on OSX.   I put them on my external USB drive called "Sample Libraries" in a folder called "Ableton/Factory Packs".
3. Start up Live 9 - click on 'Packs' in the browser in the 'PLACES' section.   The libraries you moved will appear gray.
   
   
4. Right click each gray library, select 'Locate library', and browser for the folder in the new location.
   
   

Now the pack is in the other location.  If the drive is not available when you start Live, the packs will go back to being gray.