live crashes due to wrong VSTfolder, help!

yanquiuxo · Post by **yanquiuxo** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:15 am

Hello

I accidently picked my whole harddrive as my VSTfolder and now Live crashes everytime I try to boot it becasue it can't index all the files, what to do? Can I boot ableton without any vsts?

Poster · Post by **Poster** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:05 pm

you could move, or if you're really sure about this, delete Live's preferences so it does not know the set VST folder location anymore..

ewistrand · Post by **ewistrand** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:27 pm

Yep. Trash Live's preferences.cfg. On a Windows machine, it's in the folder (turn on show hidden files and folders in Windows' view menu):

Documents and Settings/*your user account*/Application Data/Ableton/*your version of Live*/Preferences.

I've found a reboot helps afterwards, though Ableton support says it's not necessary.

Now, start Live and reset your plugin folder.

ew