Opening LMMS on external drive.

[celest monolith]

It

soryr. It's the name of your drive probably

You can change this with "Create and FOrmat hard disk partitions" (search for it from your start menu)

[fresh belfry]

I can confirm it isn't

I have the same letter and name

I made sure of that

[celest monolith]

oh is it this specific file?

[fresh belfry]

yea

just this file

and the usergig files for my vsts

[celest monolith]

Have you tried installing nightly onto your drive from the laptop and not the PC?

[celest monolith]

Are you talking about the files used by Gig Player in LMMS, or another VST?

[fresh belfry]

I have yeah, didn't work

[fresh belfry]

yeah, I think so

It says usergig: and then the file

[celest monolith]

This could be your lmmsrc xml. May I compare a project file of yours to your lmmsrc xml?

I'm not certain I can help you, but I do want to find out about the issue.

[fresh belfry]

Sure, what do I need to send you exactly?

the project file and the lmmsrc xml?

[celest monolith]

yes.

On your laptop

ideally both your laptop's and PCs config file, but just your laptop is also alr

[fresh belfry]

Alright, so where do I find the xml?

[celest monolith]

In your home folder: C:/Windows/Users/%username%/.lmmsrc.xml

ideally for a portable configuration I recommend keeping the config file also on the drive so it is portable and using the -c flag in your shortcuts, but we can get to that later

[fresh belfry]

Have this lmms project that I don't like

[celest monolith]

Where inyour drive do you store your gig files?

[fresh belfry]

My directory settings are on (U:) music stuff/

[celest monolith]

by any chance are your projects being saved INSIDE the LMMS folder, along with all the DLLs and the executable?

[celest monolith]

If you have access to your PC right now, can you send me your PC's lmmsrc xml file?

[fresh belfry]

alrighty

[fresh belfry]

Uuuh, the effect dlls yes, but the vst plugins are saved in a seperate folder

The project file should be the same

[celest monolith]

in the future ideally you want to avoid storing your project files in the install directory. can cause issues

[fresh belfry]

You mean not storing them in the LMMS directory?

[celest monolith]

yes, you should store them ideally anywhere else, even alongside, but preferably not inside the install folder.
This shouldn't be causing your present issues, but you may want to consider it in the future.

[fresh belfry]

Ah aight

I mean, I do keep a secondary back-up folder, just in case, I first did it for my original LMMS files, but I can do it for general back-up too

[celest monolith]

Do you use soundfonts by any chance?

[fresh belfry]

Not usually no

[celest monolith]

If you do, they will also break. Would you like my help avoiding this also?

[fresh belfry]

Break how? Because of my issue or?

[celest monolith]

Can you replace your laptop's lmmsrc xml with this file (place it in the same folder, delete the old one, and rename this .lmmsrc.xml (don't forget the dot)?

[fresh belfry]

Alright

[celest monolith]

This may at least fix your gig issues

[fresh belfry]

Nope, didn't work

[celest monolith]

do you still face the usergig issue?

[fresh belfry]

yeah, I think the gig issue might be because of the other issue

[celest monolith]

I am sorry. This is the limit of my knowledge, and I cannot figure out why any of these issues are happening.

[fresh belfry]

I see. Well thank you anyway, I'll try if I can figure out some other way to use LMMS on my laptop

[celest monolith]

maybe another user or someone more familiar can help you. please let me know if you find a solution or if nobody can help you in the next few days.

[fresh belfry]

Alright, thank you, I will

[fresh belfry]

@celest monolith So the issue with that file somehow fixed itself, I'm only having issues with lmms not being able to find certain plugins

it was all plugins before, but now it's just certain plugins

[celest monolith]

I did not expect that.
I recommend you check your drive health, depending on the type of drive it is

[gusty axle]

So the issue with that file somehow fixed itself,
Do you use several versions of lmms on your system, or is it only that external drive U that has an installation?
I have a Nightly on an USB, but also 1.3 on HD. That 'works' except that if i go back to 1.3. I have to *manually *edit the .lmmsrc.xml so that version is correct. If i do not i cant run 1.3.
So this field
<lmms version="1.3.0-alpha.1.956+f5688e9" configversion="3">
Has to edited in notepad (never edit xml with a word-processor!) -well i use a code-editor, but notepad works.
So for 1.3 it has to be
configversion="2" version="1.3.0-alpha.1.102+g89fc6c960">
c960 is the Nót-Nightly release
Also -When it 'fixed itself' was that after a reboot?
Finally..
How on earth did you get the drive name to be 'U'?!

[celest monolith]

I've checked it out and at least they're consistent so I'm not too worried

• the versions are consistent. The rest of the data, not so much

[fresh belfry]

What changed?

[fresh belfry]

I have both stable and nightly on the External HD

[celest monolith]

A couple of directory values

[fresh belfry]

Dunno what you mean by that

[gusty axle]

Ok! then there could be something there! Do both versions share the same dot-file?
If so you need to edit the version-field

[celest monolith]

The version field is consistent between the two

[gusty axle]

New directories has been added. Gig is new afair, and some fields are altered too

[celest monolith]

Don't worry about it. I've checked out their config xmls on both.

Boom, if you face any folder-not-found issues, let me know and I'll see how I can help with your config files

[fresh belfry]

Oh right, I changed the the stuff around a bit before, to see what works, but I changed it all back to match what I had on my pc, so that's not an issue

[fresh belfry]

I don't think it's a folder not found

[gusty axle]

@fresh belfry Could you explain how your external drive has the drive letter 'U'

Do you have 24 drives?!

[fresh belfry]

You can customise the letter in disk management

[gusty axle]

Yes but why have you done that?

[fresh belfry]

I didn't have my files on my external hard drive before, and my previous drive did have a U, dunno why

but so, when I copied them over to my external one, I had to change the letters for everything to work

[gusty axle]

Hmm.. It just that the more 'fancy' the more prone for errors. Its best to let windows do its thing, and not be 'smart'

[fresh belfry]

I didn't choose to have it like this, it literally doesn't work if I don't have that letter

you need to right file path for projects to load

[gusty axle]

I have done some tests and i have a Nightly that also do not load any VST
It is not the same as yours, but that does not mean it cant be the same issue
I will post here if i have anything new.

[fresh belfry]

Alright, thx

[fresh belfry]

Okay so, I figured out why some of the vsts still weren't working. I had to download/upgrade this part of windows to help them run, and otherwise they wouldn't be able to run. Some of the vsts also needed me to download their management app for them to work, like native access with kontakt and shreddage, or IK multimedia with Modo bass

[celest monolith]

Since I plan to use portable setups I usually avoid plugins that require management apps. You may want to consider what you usually use in the future and the inconvenience of upgrading any device

[fresh belfry]

I mean, with the fact I'm using free things, there aren't many things better from what I've seen than the plugins I use rn, so I'm gonna stick with this for the most part