Hardrive not saving parts of my user library

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roseamelia1310
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Hardrive not saving parts of my user library

Post by roseamelia1310 » Tue May 04, 2021 11:55 pm

So I normally have my laptop plugged into my hardrive and sometimes when I don't, ableton takes away the label names for colour coded sounds/plugins, takes away the packs I downloaded and I have to download them again and removes any of my files I have in the tab section (below the user library, my project). So even though it finds the user library when I replug the hardrive, it doesn't save certain things which is very annoying.

Any help would be much appreciated!

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Re: Hardrive not saving parts of my user library

Post by jestermgee » Wed May 05, 2021 12:07 am

Always have your HDD plugged in if you have your library in it BEFORE launching live. That would be the solution.

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Re: Hardrive not saving parts of my user library

Post by roseamelia1310 » Wed May 05, 2021 11:10 am

Thanks for your reply,
What happens is that sometimes when i don't have the hardrive plugged in for a long amount of time (a day), and then replug it in and open live it has that issue. I always have the hardrive plugged in before opening live. I will make sure I give it a minute to ensure the hardrive is on my laptop but if that still doesn't work I'll let you know. :)

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Re: Hardrive not saving parts of my user library

Post by [jur] » Wed May 05, 2021 11:46 am

Yes, keep us posted please.
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Re: Hardrive not saving parts of my user library

Post by roseamelia1310 » Sat May 08, 2021 1:31 pm

My laptop somehow knows I'm in a different location so even if I have my hard drive plugged in before opening live, it still makes me find the user library and then all my saved names, packs are not there anymore.

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Re: Hardrive not saving parts of my user library

Post by [jur] » Sat May 08, 2021 3:07 pm

roseamelia1310 wrote:
Sat May 08, 2021 1:31 pm
My laptop somehow knows I'm in a different location so even if I have my hard drive plugged in before opening live, it still makes me find the user library and then all my saved names, packs are not there anymore.
Is there some kind of security thing/firewall/protection on your external drive?
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