Ableton already loaded a project after starting up.

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sunshine4
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Ableton already loaded a project after starting up.

Post by sunshine4 » Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:24 pm

I've got some issues after starting up Ableton since today. After it crashed this afternoon - everytime i will start it "fresh and without clicking on a project" it already has a project loaded - ready to begin.
I just want a new empty one to start a new project. :(

Does anyone has a guess what it might be?

Thanks.

Using:
Mac OS X 10.7.3
MacBook Air Late 2011
Ableton 8.2.7

doghouse
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Re: Ableton already loaded a project after starting up.

Post by doghouse » Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:18 pm

Your preferences were probably trashed in the crash.

Locate the preferences file, delete and set all your preferences over again.

sunshine4
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Re: Ableton already loaded a project after starting up.

Post by sunshine4 » Wed Mar 14, 2012 5:02 pm

doghouse wrote: Locate the preferences file, delete and set all your preferences over again.
I can't locate the file preference.cfg it is not under Mac OS X: /Users/Library/Preferences/Ableton/

sunshine4
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Re: Ableton already loaded a project after starting up.

Post by sunshine4 » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:17 pm

At first: Remember if you wanna do something right do it on console!
After i dismissed the GUI and returned to commandline on my Mac i finally found it.

The file is located under /Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences/Ableton/yourLiveVersion.
But you have to delete the Template.als file - to start Ableton without any project loaded, wich you might have saved as default setup.

Hope this will help you, if you got the same problem.

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