Ableton not allowing me to drag and drop wav samples

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david.barker
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Ableton not allowing me to drag and drop wav samples

Post by david.barker » Fri Oct 20, 2023 11:01 am

Hi everyone
Opened Ableton today the latest version,so some odd reason I cannot drag and drop my wav sample onto a audio clip,in session view
I was about to make a track using my sample packs they contain aiff and wav samples

I have installed a fresh copy,same thing.Any ideas?
Thanks
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Re: Ableton not allowing me to drag and drop wav samples

Post by Tarekith » Fri Oct 20, 2023 2:24 pm

Are they copy protected samples? Or 32bit files?

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Re: Ableton not allowing me to drag and drop wav samples

Post by Rivanni » Fri Oct 20, 2023 6:23 pm

Are you running Live as an Administrator? If so, start Live without special rights and try again.

Are you dragging the files from a cloud drive? If so, try dragging from a local drive.

Did you try some other samples?

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Re: Ableton not allowing me to drag and drop wav samples

Post by david.barker » Fri Oct 20, 2023 7:50 pm

Hi everyone
Thanks for the reply
These are paid for sample packs containing wav and aiff files. From Ghosthack,de and Zero G companies
And were playing fine a few months ago
There not 32 bit either
I will keep investigating,maybe I need to uninstall Ableton Live and try another install
When I drag a wav sample over and onto a clip I get a circle with a diagonal slash through it.The sample packs are greyed out too
Dell Optilplex 9010,Windows Pro 10 10 64 bit .16GB ram, Intel i5 3570 chip,@ 3'40GHz 4 cores
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Re: Ableton not allowing me to drag and drop wav samples

Post by david.barker » Fri Oct 20, 2023 9:10 pm

Hi everyone
Ok I am so embarrased :oops: And a idiot :oops:

A few weeks ago I had bought another SSD drive and moved my sample packs to that .And forgot to point Ableton to the new location
Just done that and the sample packs are now behaving as before. the files in the browser are not greyed out now

Thanks again Tarekith and Rivanni for your help
Dell Optilplex 9010,Windows Pro 10 10 64 bit .16GB ram, Intel i5 3570 chip,@ 3'40GHz 4 cores
1TB SSD main drive, external drive 6TB SSD for various Kontakt libraries

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