@HaiesAlshammari

Yes, you can transfer the installation from your C:\ to another drive, but not easily! I have all my various Magix programs on a dedicated Programs drive, D:\.

However, I deliberately installed them there from the beginning; in your case, "transferring" is a rather different proposition!

I think your procedure needs to be:

1. Deactivate Music Maker on your C:\ drive, using the Help>Deactivate the software menu item.
2. Follow carefully the advice and instructions in this tutorial to completely remove ALL parts of the program.
3. Reinstall the program, making sure you select the option for a Custom install; this will allow you to select the drive you wish to use for the installation.
4. You will then need to re-register the program, using the same email as you originally used when first installing the program, and download ALL the additional content you previously had in Music Maker. By taking care to use the same email as you had previously used to register you will ensure that any previously-purchased Store content is available to you automatically.

One important caveat: some of the data which is part of a Music Maker installation, e.g. Soundpools, will still install to the C:\ drive, I think. I know of no method to prevent this happening since the program expects to find such data in a "known" location.

@condex "activation" of a Magix program on my D:\ drive has never proved to be a problem.

Jeff

 

One important caveat: some of the data which is part of a Music Maker installation, e.g. Soundpools, will still install to the C:\ drive, I think. I know of no method to prevent this happening since the program expects to find such data in a "known" location.

 

You can change it after installation though. Move all the files and change the location under Folders in the program settings.

Hi,

I'm in the process of making a tutorial on getting started in MMM2019. I just upgraded to the latest edition which is a new install. Here are the install screens allowing you to change the location of the program, Templates and Effects, Content and Soundpools, User files:

Within program, Program Settings, you can change the location of the user files and Soundpools. If you change the location of the Soundpools, you may have to rescan, pointing to the new location.

John CB

Thank you all @emmrecs , @condex and @browj2, for the help.

But, @emmrecs, there is no instruction in the link that you have put on step #2.

@HaiesAlshammari

In the first screen picture, you need to click on the

Change Default settings >

link to get into the second screen picture

@Graham-Hawker

Hi

. . . . Move all the files and change the location under Folders in the program settings. . . . .

The OP wants to move the program itself so an un-install/re-install is required.

HTH

John EB

what I have understood is the following, correct me if I am wrong:

Copy all the files of MMM in the C drive. Next, I paste them in the E drive for example. Then, I delete the MMM file or uninstall it. After that, I install it again in the new drive which is E in our example.

@HaiesAlshammari

No, please reread the above. Nowhere do we say to copy all the files of MMM in the C drive to another drive. That would be disastrous. The files that you can move are your files created in your Documents and in the Soundpool folder; these are the data files that Jeff mentions, not files in the Program folders. You have to uninstall the program and then reinstall it. Uninstalling removes the program files. When you reinstall, see the images that I posted above. You install to a different drive and everything, especially the program files, goes to the correct place and Windows Registry will be correctly done by the install program. This is no different from any other program that is installed in Windows. You have to uninstall first. If you simply move the program files, they will not work, you will not be able to uninstall, the Windows registry will be confused, and then you'll have a terrible mess.

Uninstalling the program does not touch your project files and recordings if they are in My Documents\somewhere... They belong to you, not the program.

John CB

@Graham-Hawker

 

The OP wants to move the program itself so an un-install/re-install is required.

HTH

John EB

 

 

Yes I know. I was responding to the question about Soundpools and default folders.

@HaiesAlshammari

But, @emmrecs, there is no instruction in the link that you have put on step #2.

Do you see that the words "this tutorial" appear in blue? Click on that blue text to go direct to the relevant article.

@emmrecs

Hi Jeff,

I get the cow when I click on your link.

John

@browj2

Hi John.

Yes, so do I now!! Hopefully this link will work!

Jeff