Live 9 settings from Live 9 beta

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Cikadas
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Live 9 settings from Live 9 beta

Post by Cikadas » Tue Mar 05, 2013 11:05 pm

Does anyone by any chance know how to have your saved folders (in the places folder area) in Live 9 beta open up exactly the same in Live 9 suite? I would like all my settings and everything I used in Live 9 beta transfered over to Live 9 suite.

edit: I'm running on a mac

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Re: Live 9 settings from Live 9 beta

Post by mholloway » Tue Mar 05, 2013 11:10 pm

+1...

I've created a bunch of content in the User Library of the Beta, and want to make sure I don't lost it when installing live 9. Guess it depends if 9 writes over it, or just looks in the same place....

it's not clear. anybody??
my industrial music made with Ableton Live (as DEAD WHEN I FOUND HER): https://deadwhenifoundher.bandcamp.com/
my dark jazz / noir music made with Ableton Live: https://michaelarthurholloway.bandcamp. ... guilt-noir

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Re: Live 9 settings from Live 9 beta

Post by siliconarc » Tue Mar 05, 2013 11:16 pm

i copied the contents of the b69 Prefs folder into the 9.0.1 Prefs folder.
all my custom Places folders etc appeared just as they were in the beta.

stuff in Prefs folder available to copy over:
Log.txt
Preferences.cfg
Bookmarks.cfg
Library.cfg
Template.als
wc.log
CrashDetection.cfg
Options.txt
Undo.cfg
User Remote Scripts folder

not all needed, i'm sure, but didn't hurt to copy em all.

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Re: Live 9 settings from Live 9 beta

Post by Cikadas » Tue Mar 05, 2013 11:24 pm

garyboozy wrote:i copied the contents of the b69 Prefs folder into the 9.0.1 Prefs folder.
all my custom Places folders etc appeared just as they were in the beta.

stuff in Prefs folder available to copy over:
Log.txt
Preferences.cfg
Bookmarks.cfg
Library.cfg
Template.als
wc.log
CrashDetection.cfg
Options.txt
Undo.cfg
User Remote Scripts folder

not all needed, i'm sure, but didn't hurt to copy em all.
Where do you find the prefs folder?

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Re: Live 9 settings from Live 9 beta

Post by Cikadas » Wed Mar 06, 2013 1:28 am

Nevermind found it.

I copied the entire 9.0b69 contents and put it into the live 9.0.1 preferences folder. Mine was in a different location. If anyone has same issue as me try this. Click your desktop then press and hold alt/option, select "Go" at the top menu bar > Library.
Once you are in library look for "Preferences" >Ableton and then find your previous version of Live you have been running. For me it was beta so 9.0b69 was my last version. Then I copied everything inside and placed it into the 9.0.1 folder. That folder will be in the same folder structure you are currently in.

Thanks garyboozy....everything works and my template I always use came up as well!!!

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