Can't drag audio to desktop

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ampism
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Can't drag audio to desktop

Post by ampism » Tue Mar 25, 2025 8:41 pm

I am running Live Suite 11.2 on a 2015 Macbook Pro.
One of the ways I use Ableton is to record lots of audio clips, and then drag them (from the clip view) into a folder on my desktop. Then I send those files onto my Norns shield, or Airdrop them to my ipad,...
Anyway, just now I was dragging a batch of audio clips onto the desktop, as I often do, no problem, and then after about 12 files, I could no longer drag any more. They just wouldn't move. I opened a different project, containing audio clips, to see if it worked with a different project, but they wouldn't drag either (?)
It's weird that it just suddenly stopped working, midway through...

Any thoughts?

doghouse
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Re: Can't drag audio to desktop

Post by doghouse » Tue Mar 25, 2025 10:11 pm

Just try the obvious stuff first.

Quit and reopen Live.

If that doesn’t work, quit Live, restart computer, reopen Live.

ampism
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Re: Can't drag audio to desktop

Post by ampism » Wed Mar 26, 2025 2:59 pm

That seems to have fixed it.... cheers @doghouse

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