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gandalf458
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Too many folders

Post by gandalf458 » Tue Mar 05, 2024 4:51 pm

I have just noticed that under c:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Ableton I have dozens of folders, one for each version of Live I've had at one time or another Live 11.1.5, Live 11.2 etc.

Is it okay to delete all but the current version?

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Re: Too many folders

Post by [jur] » Tue Mar 05, 2024 5:04 pm

Yep
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Re: Too many folders

Post by gandalf458 » Tue Mar 05, 2024 5:42 pm

Thanks!

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Re: Too many folders

Post by H20nly » Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:59 pm

[jur] wrote:
Tue Mar 05, 2024 5:04 pm
Yep
Do you happen to know the equivalent path to do this on a Mac?

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Re: Too many folders

Post by ecuk » Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:26 pm

H20nly wrote:
Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:59 pm
Do you happen to know the equivalent path to do this on a Mac?
There are two places on the Mac that I occasionally clean up: ~/Library/Application Support/Ableton and ~/Library/Preferences/Ableton.
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Re: Too many folders

Post by [jur] » Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:11 pm

H20nly wrote:
Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:59 pm
[jur] wrote:
Tue Mar 05, 2024 5:04 pm
Yep
Do you happen to know the equivalent path to do this on a Mac?
What Ecuk wrote. I personally delete older versions folder from those place every once in a while, for the sake of keeping things clean, but these are small files.
But AFAIK, what the OP is referring to on Windows is about files that are basically copies of the application package (or something like that, I'm totally ignorant about windows), so waaaaay more bigger files than the preferences ones.
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Re: Too many folders

Post by H20nly » Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:12 pm

ecuk wrote:
Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:26 pm
H20nly wrote:
Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:59 pm
Do you happen to know the equivalent path to do this on a Mac?
There are two places on the Mac that I occasionally clean up: ~/Library/Application Support/Ableton and ~/Library/Preferences/Ableton.
Thanks for that.
I do Windows related I.T. for my day job so it’s muscle memory. In macOS, I’m just an end user - thankfully the problems are minimal and “it just works” most of the time :D

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