Fredeke
Senior Member
Hi!
Could someone explain to me (or point me to an explaination of) how to manage resource files, folders and container, and keep relative paths working when moving everything around ?
Could it be explained like I'm a total noob, because apparently I must be one ?
The following is a lengthy description of my ignorance (I honestly don't know whether it is necessary, but at least for the curious) :
Here's my (relatively vague) experience :
I go to instrument options, create a nkr and link to a wallpaper file. Then kontakt creates a resource folder that I seem to understand is a temporary place for the nkr file's content. Then the next day I try to open my nki instrument and kontakt 5.2 (I know - sorry) can't find the wallpaper and nkr (and resource folder) and I have to re-link everything every time - this even though I haven't moved anything. But 5.7 does find them, so ok let's use 5.7, which I should have been doing since long anyway.
But when I move everything around together (to make sure no path is absolute and everything will work on everybody's computer as long as relative paths are preserved), then even Kontakt 5.7 can't find the resources anymore.
And here are my questions :
- Am I having problems because of still using the temporary "resource" folder ?
- How do I finalize and lock down my design ? How do I get rid of the "resource folder" and start using the actual nkr file ?
- Is there a way of including the resource images and wallpaper directly into the nki (a kind of graphical equivalent of a monolith) just to be sure they'll always be found, instead of using nkr or otherwise external files ?
- Is it a problem to use the same "resource" folder for several instruments when they require the same graphics ?
- Does what scripts I put in the resources actually matter, since scripts are also directly typed (or pasted) into the nki's script editor, and apparently stored in the nki itself? (I would like the answer to be no, because all my instruments use the same resources, except for slightly different scripts)
- Does any of my questions even make sense, or am I going about this the very wrong way ?
Btw, I don't think this matters but just to be thorough: I plan to keep the WAVs in an accessible folder ( = not monolithed into the nki), so they can be used into other samplers too - without my amazing kontakt interface, but still
Could someone explain to me (or point me to an explaination of) how to manage resource files, folders and container, and keep relative paths working when moving everything around ?
Could it be explained like I'm a total noob, because apparently I must be one ?
The following is a lengthy description of my ignorance (I honestly don't know whether it is necessary, but at least for the curious) :
Here's my (relatively vague) experience :
I go to instrument options, create a nkr and link to a wallpaper file. Then kontakt creates a resource folder that I seem to understand is a temporary place for the nkr file's content. Then the next day I try to open my nki instrument and kontakt 5.2 (I know - sorry) can't find the wallpaper and nkr (and resource folder) and I have to re-link everything every time - this even though I haven't moved anything. But 5.7 does find them, so ok let's use 5.7, which I should have been doing since long anyway.
But when I move everything around together (to make sure no path is absolute and everything will work on everybody's computer as long as relative paths are preserved), then even Kontakt 5.7 can't find the resources anymore.
And here are my questions :
- Am I having problems because of still using the temporary "resource" folder ?
- How do I finalize and lock down my design ? How do I get rid of the "resource folder" and start using the actual nkr file ?
- Is there a way of including the resource images and wallpaper directly into the nki (a kind of graphical equivalent of a monolith) just to be sure they'll always be found, instead of using nkr or otherwise external files ?
- Is it a problem to use the same "resource" folder for several instruments when they require the same graphics ?
- Does what scripts I put in the resources actually matter, since scripts are also directly typed (or pasted) into the nki's script editor, and apparently stored in the nki itself? (I would like the answer to be no, because all my instruments use the same resources, except for slightly different scripts)
- Does any of my questions even make sense, or am I going about this the very wrong way ?
Btw, I don't think this matters but just to be thorough: I plan to keep the WAVs in an accessible folder ( = not monolithed into the nki), so they can be used into other samplers too - without my amazing kontakt interface, but still
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