Installing the Software on a drive different to the C:Drive

Fergal1 wrote on 5/19/2019, 12:53 PM

I have an SSD drive 128GB and a Hard Disk Drive 1TB

There seems to be no way to install Magix Movie Edit Pro 17 on the Hard Disk Drive. No choice is given while installing. Same with all add-on - Templates etc all install on the SDD Driver. This is too small to contain all this information.

Is there any way around this? For me it seems a stupid installation procedure that doesn't give you a choice. Alot of computers now have more than one drive. I've seen questions here of people asking this 5 years ago.

Any suggestions would be welcome.

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emmrecs wrote on 5/19/2019, 2:29 PM

Hi.

You mention using Magix Movie Edit Pro 17. Can you clarify exactly which version this is since there has been both a "version 17", now very old and a later version commonly known as "MEP 2017".

If yours is indeed that old version 17 I suspect it may not have included the option to install the software to a drive of your own choosing. MEP 2017 certainly does include the option to choose the installation drive. On my computer, running the latest versions of a number of Magix programs, the actual program files are all on my D:\ drive (there is a screen shown early in the installation process which allows for a "Custom" install) though those additional files like Templates, which you mention, do indeed seem to install to C:\, without any option to change that. I suspect the reason for installing this additional content to the main system drive is because that is where the core program expects to find those files, remembering they are NOT installed at the same time as the core program so there is no way for that "core program" to know where the files are if they were to be installed anywhere other than the Default which the program sets.

I do understand your problem; an SSD of only 128GB is not really going to be anything like big enough to store even a small number of programs when additional "support" files are also needed. My system SSD is 240GB and I am seriously looking at migrating my system files to a new SSD of at least 480GB capacity in order to avoid making my current one "too full".

Jeff

Fergal1 wrote on 5/19/2019, 3:33 PM

It would be the 2017 Version. So relatively new.

If I had it all over again I for sure would not get a 128GB SSD. Unfortunately at the time there wasn't much warning about this. Windows and Adobe CC are completely bloated plus NVIDIA crazy driver set up and other bits and pieces which seem to be very hard to get rid of have filled up the SSD.

I'd do 512GB minimum if I get another laptop.

On the install I didn't see any option to Custom Install. I may have missed it. Do you know for sure its there?

I am doing it from the site download as opposed to a disk.

johnebaker wrote on 5/19/2019, 3:49 PM

@Fergal1

. . . . On the install I didn't see any option to Custom Install. I may have missed it. Do you know for sure its there? . . . .

Once the installer begins and has extracted the install files, it is on the 3rd screen as shown below

Once you click Custom the following dialog opens where you can specify/browse to the required install location.

. . . . I'd do 512GB minimum if I get another laptop . . . .

I would advise a 1TB minimum SSD drive for the system, MEP still puts necessary files on the c: drive - this cannot be avoided as they must be in specific locations in the Windows directory and you should also have at least 25% free space for Windows 10 and programs to run properly.

HTH

John EB