Want to change Helix LT path.

[John-O]

At HX-Edit initial install I chose the default path off (My Documents).  I would like to change this path to F:\Line 6\... Should this be done via an Hx-Edit re-install?

[datacommando]

11 hours ago, John-O said:

Should this be done via an Hx-Edit re-install?

That shouldn’t be necessary, you can store your presets, setlists, IRs and bundles wherever you wish, much the same as any other type of file (jpg, doc, pdf). Just remember where they are when you need to reload them. Easy enough to go down the wrong rabbit hole.   ;-)

 

Hope this helps/makes sense.

[Lone_Poor_Boy]

13 hours ago, John-O said:

At HX-Edit initial install I chose the default path off (My Documents).  I would like to change this path to F:\Line 6\... Should this be done via an Hx-Edit re-install?

 

I don't recall the install giving me a choice, but I could be wrong.  Whether it did or not I know I decided to put all main installs on C: for HX Edit, Monkey, Workbench.

 

This is from a guy who is pretty religious about keeping his OS drive clean (C:) and forcing everything to another drive.  I also re-direct all my user folders to another drive. I do this to help keep C from becoming a mess but mainly because I am big into imaging my C: drive and this practice allows a bad install, driver, failure, virus etc. on C: to be easily wiped by re-imaging C: and being back up fully in 10 minutes because all main support files etc. were on other drives.  All that gets lost is anything I installed since the last image.

 

I did this with the HX Edit etc. installs because this PC is my main for Music, and I have run into problems with some installs that let you install to another drive, but things get funky because other programs looking for it, or even the program itself looks by default to C: and malfunctions because it can't find what it's looking for there.  This is usually not with bigger name apps etc. but from more niche ones, which I consider Helix to be. Also, we want a lot of different things to collaborate with the Helix and this will give the best odds for things playing well together, in my opinion.

 

Just passing along my thoughts on this, with two main points;

1) Imaging kicks butt for major headache reduction with computers

2) Some apps can glitch, or other apps looking for it, when not installed on C:, when we try to get clever, because the coding isn't quite as clever.

 

Edit: I was curious why I saw 'lollipop' on this site and it was always oddly out of place.  Was it some new hip term?  No.  As I just found out, it replaces the word 'a$$', spelled correctly.

[datacommando]

13 hours ago, Lone_Poor_Boy said:

As I just found out, it replaces the word 'a$$', spelled correctly.

Ha ha ha.
Sh!t

Well done, now you have figured out the forum’s “bad language” filter and how to work around it.