is there a way..

Ozias Leduc · Post by **Ozias Leduc** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:22 am

dude i think the config file is in c:\documents and settings\application data\*your name*\ableton\preferences

something like that anyway. (im at work now)

edit : i think the file is called preferences.cfg

kennerb · Post by **kennerb** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:26 am

You might try to delete your prefs file.

PC
local settings/Ableton/preferences

MAC
Library/Preferences/Ableton/Live

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:29 am

it's here
C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR NAME\Application Data\Ableton\Live 6.0.3\Preferences
It doesn't look very tweakable, maybe rename it, boot up and fix the file path inside Live.

please note that I said DLL files will screw up the scan, not VSTs (which are also DLL files.)

weese · Post by **weese** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:44 am

Tone Deft wrote:it's here
C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR NAME\Application Data\Ableton\Live 6.0.3\Preferences
It doesn't look very tweakable, maybe rename it, boot up and fix the file path inside Live.

please note that I said DLL files will screw up the scan, not VSTs (which are also DLL files.)

i dont seem to have an application data folder anywhere...is that wierd?

weese · Post by **weese** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:45 am

kennerb wrote:You might try to delete your prefs file.

PC
local settings/Ableton/preferences

MAC
Library/Preferences/Ableton/Live

sounds scary but ill try it..

weese · Post by **weese** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:10 am

i deleted the vstscaninfo file in the preferences folder and now im maing progress..hope it wasnt too important of a file. thanks to each of you for the help.

hacktheplanet · Post by **hacktheplanet** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:42 am

weese wrote:i deleted the vstscaninfo file in the preferences folder and now im maing progress..hope it wasnt too important of a file. thanks to each of you for the help.

Well, it's probably working. Next time, if you're messing around with files that may be important, I'd recommend renaming them rather than deleting them just in case they were needed after all. Just a hint.

NorthernMonkey · Post by **NorthernMonkey** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:45 am

Tone Deft wrote:it's here
C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR NAME\Application Data\Ableton\Live 6.0.3\Preferences
It doesn't look very tweakable, maybe rename it, boot up and fix the file path inside Live.

please note that I said DLL files will screw up the scan, not VSTs (which are also DLL files.)

I don't know if this will mean much to you, but as far as I can tell the 'config' file is a binary serialised class, serialised using a custom binary formatter, so editing it through a text viewer will probably corrupt it. I'll have a play around with it to see if I can knock up a small app to allow editing of the file, but the deserialisation could be tricky.