Live file management / search

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serious headpalm.. still waiting...

[Meef Chaloin]

Everything Live does when it comes to finding and managing files drives me absolutely crazy. It's sooooo damn slow. How can a simple file search app take a seconds to index my whole drive and Live takes forever to find something from about 18gb.

[Meef Chaloin]

And don't even get me started on Manage Library.
Hours and hours, literally.

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it's simply terrible.. and takes the wind out of your sails...
the waiting ...
if it's searching for a wav file in the library...why is it scanning the clip and presets folders..for hours...

[3dot...]

And don't even get me started on Manage Library.
Hours and hours, literally.

oh I know this..
I timed it at some point.. it came to around 8 hours.. (50 Gb Library)
and it didn't act any better after that...
Live device browser search is also quite horrible...

[Meef Chaloin]

if it's searching for a wav file in the library...why is it scanning the clip and presets folders..for hours...

God only knows.

I timed it at some point.. it came to around 8 hours.. (50 Gb Library)

I can completely believe that. First time I did it I forgot to press Save so I had to start all over again. Seriously, it shouldn't be this time consuming for Live to keep track of the library.

[nuxnamon]

stupd question alert..

oddly enough, I don't think I use Live's file management/search. I mainly use "finder" on Mac.. is it because you guys turned off HD indexing (to improve ableton's performance, i think i heard that but maybe just making it up ) so you can't use finder/spotlight? told ya it was stupid..

[Meef Chaloin]

stupd question alert..

oddly enough, I don't think I use Live's file management/search. I mainly use "finder" on Mac.. is it because you guys turned off HD indexing (to improve ableton's performance, i think i heard that but maybe just making it up ) so you can't use finder/spotlight? told ya it was stupid..

I only have Windows 7 indexing my start menu. I wonder if that makes a difference? I wouldn't expect Live to use the Windows indexing but maybe it does?

[3dot...]

stupd question alert..

oddly enough, I don't think I use Live's file management/search. I mainly use "finder" on Mac.. is it because you guys turned off HD indexing (to improve ableton's performance, i think i heard that but maybe just making it up ) so you can't use finder/spotlight? told ya it was stupid..

I only have Windows 7 indexing my start menu. I wonder if that makes a difference? I wouldn't expect Live to use the Windows indexing but maybe it does?

nope... because windows indexer is ultra-fast..
in fact.. I use windows search instead of live-search whenver I can