All my assets (videos, images & docs) are located in my Home folder.
How can all these be moved to an external drive so Blocs knows their location?
I am looking to avoid missing assets.
Blocs has a great feature for generating a package. It works really well, never had an issue with it. And I have used it for “version control”.
Thanks Pete
What about restoring the package to an external drive so Blocs see all the assets?
Generate package and save it to your new location.
But then, I guess we should ask, what do you mean, when you say “restore the package”.
If I understand you correctly, it mean save it to your new location.
Asset Structure on my MacBook Pro
Home User
Desktop/ 2 - Folders
Work/ many Folders
Generate the package and take a look at what it does.
@PeteSharp I opened a project (one of many) and generated a package. What exported (generated) was only that project. Does the mean I have to do this for every project?
Okay now I know what the next Chat could be. ( @Bill )
All my work, including all Blocs assets are on my MacBook Pro
Home User
Desktop/ 2 - Folders
Work/ many Folders
How can I move them to my new iMAC or better yet an external drive? Oh yeah without looking connection to all assets.
Usually, when you generate the package and open it on the new Mac it will be looking for those assets.
Blocs should give you the opportunity to re-link those assets, and when it does, it will ask if the other assets are in that location and start to re-link them all up.
Like Pete says, try it and see what happens…
Rich the Weather Guy
So I do have to re-link each and every project? So many go back to Blocs 2.X
I saw this video saying you can Move or Copy to an external drive… Does that mean when I open Blocs all my “User” folders will be connected when I begin to open any of my many project?
Oh yeah, I have 2 folder on my Desktop that have original assets and these are not in “User” folder
All of this makes a very good argument for linking to remotely hosted files on the server. That way it doesn’t really matter where the project file is kept.
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Repository Manager has a function to copy file links in order to bulk import remote assets into Blocs.
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I think you will have to try it and see what happens.
Let us all know how you make out.
Rich the Weather Guy
Yeah, but when you’ve have so many projects already completed with hundreds of assets on a drive, not so easy. Especially when original images / videos are nearly 5 GB.
And come to think about it what about all the 3rd part Blocs, Brics & Templates, They can’t be remotely hosted. How do you link these to an external drive?
For me, I would need a walk through. Like a How to tutorial (doc or video) in such simple terms. I know you’re too busy to take the time to do that, so I’ll try to make time to figure it out.
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Only images and videos would need to be hosted remotely and then linked in the asset manager. All successive updates to the server would be faster with no need to upload assets every time.
In a scenario like this it would also be easier for more than one person to work on a project. I know that may not be relevant in your case, but I mention it as information for others. Unless a website is really small with a dozen images or less I always host the files remotely.
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When you use RM can you also embed the assets when saving a project?
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Okay, without looking at any documentation or video tutorials I played with RM and was able to do so many cool things. RM was so easy to use. Thank you so @Jannis, for developing RM. Every Blocs user ought to be putting it to use. 
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+1
Repository Manager is an excellent Bric, it just works as it says on the tin.
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