Solved Kontakt not seeing external SSD drive.

I just bought a Sandisk 2GB external SSD drive for my samples, loaded all my samples onto it and when i open Kontakt, i can see the drive but none of the contents. I've researched this quite a bit and see that in the past, Kontakt has had issues reading external SSD drives formatted with ExFAT (which this drive is) and i'm running a Mac. According to what i've read, this bug was fixed in Kontakt 5.7.3, but i've tried it in Kontakt 5.8.1 and 6.1.3 and no dice. I've also selected the View option "Show removable drives" to no avail.

Does anyone know if this bug has truly been fixed and if not, what my alternatives might be?
thanks,
jim.

 

Don't use ExFAT for samples because Kontakt works really very slowly with ExFAT. Also:

 

Thanks for the reply, that's a TB+ of data i'll have to move off and back on. What are my formatting options? I'd LOVE to have an option that would work on both PC and Mac, though i primarily am working on a Mac. Flexibility would be very desirable!

 

Use macOS Journaled. ExFAT is really not an option with Kontakt because you will incur a huge performance penalty. You could I guess use NTFS knowing that you'll only be able to write to that drive from Windows...

 

Ypu mean from MacOS, right ?

 

IIRC macOS can read NTFS drives but not write to them.

EDIT: Unless you pay $20 for NTFS drivers that enable writing to NTFS drives under macOS...

 

Yes sure but you said "from Windows". He won't be able to write from MacOS.

 

I said "you'll (you will) only be able to write to that (external NTFS formatted) drive from Windows (not macOS)", which is true. In context of what OP needs (which is streaming sample libraries), reading is what's important, not writing. What I meant to say is that he can use NTFS instead of ExFAT if he needs cross-platform operation, but he would have to install any new Kontakt libraries from Windows.

Or, as I found out a minute ago, he could do it on Mac too via those paid-for Paragon drivers...

 

Sorry, stupid of me. I read two times the contrary.
Yeah I tried the Paragon drivers during a week, and they worked no problem.

 

Thanks for this info, wasn't aware of this software. If it comes to that, i'll check them out.

Thanks to both of you for your replies and help! Still moving data around to make reformatting possible, but i assume this will get me there.
cheers,
jim.

 

Confirmed, problem solved. Thanks guys for the help!