Changing sample HD

I just moved all my libraries and samples to a new faster and larger HD.
Mac OS 10.12.6. Kontakt 5.8

Kontakt finds nothing anymore.
I can' believe that I have to repair everything manually.
So I hope you will tell me that I'm just too stupid to find the right solution.

Native Access:
Do I really have to repair each library manually by pointing it to the .nicnt file?
Isn't there a way to batch repair all library path in one go by saying: Search all libraries on this HD?

Quick Load library:
Not only the samples are not found, even the instrument names are gone.
Only the folder structure with empty folders is still available.
I can find the instrument names in the application support folder in the Mac library folder, but that only helps to see what I had in my quick load database.

The "files" section in the Kontakt browser has no search function.
I can search the .nki files in the Mac finder, or through the Load Save function in Kontakt.
But that doesn't help much, because a loaded instrument can't be dragged into the Quick Load browser.

Looks like I'll need month to rebuild everything.
Not to mention the fact that I'll have "Missing samples" the next few years in all my Cubase projects.

Actually I thought changing the sample drive from time to time is a common thing.
I hope anyone has a few tips.

Thanks,

Chris Hein

 

Yes.

No. Well, you can probably tweak the paths to libraries by editing plist files if you find that faster?

Did you perhaps try renaming your drive to how the old one was named? Perhaps that could help.

 

I will always keep my drive and folder names identical, even/especially after a computer install/reinstall, just to avoid problems like these.

 

Well, in the year of 2018, this is just anachronistic.

 

Well no, you can't expect software to read your mind. Keeping the names of drives the same when changing them (and having identical content as on the old drive) is plain common sense, though.