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Moving Motion Templates folder to an external drive? (Big Sur)

Hi,

I need to move my Motion Templates folder to an external drive to free up some space in my internal drive.

I've found a solution in this forum that worked in macos Catalina, which is the following:


1) Drag the Motion Templates folder to an external hard drive

2) Delete the original folder from Movies folder

3) Open Terminal

4) Type cd ~/Movie and press enter

5) Type ln -s /Volumes/ExternalDriveName/Motion\ Templates.localized Motion\ Templates.localized

6) Press enter.


Do you think this solution will also work in Big Sur? I don't want to mess up with FCPX since I'm using it for work. Any help will be appreciated.


Thanks,

Samuele

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.4

Posted on Jun 25, 2021 3:34 AM

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Jun 25, 2021 4:03 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

I need help! After migrating my Motion Templates to the external hdd, I found out that all of the effects, transitions, titles and generators from MotionVFX and Pixel Film Studios are disappeared within FCPX. I mean, they are correctly inside the Motion Templates folder I migrated to the external drive, but FCPX doesn't see 'em!

Can somebody please help me?

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Moving Motion Templates folder to an external drive? (Big Sur)

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