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Ok so I'm fooling around this evening and running live 8.1.1 and i decide to redo my vst plugins

i fiddle with some folders to get the .dll files all in one place...i stupidly did this while live was running...

i moved everything to a common vst folder but i must've mistyped something....i had to go back and redo what i did but i got an windows error...(dont remember but it had to do with an invalid directory)...so i rescanned my vst folders to browse through things the way i used too. and live crashed...and everytime i start it , it crashes....it leaves the process running in my task manager panel, but there is no application in the task manager

im thinking i am going to have to reinstall and perhaps even reinstall some vsts
ugh..

btw i also run sonar and it runs fine....so i'm hopeful it will be ok with live

my question is if anyone has an easier idea for a fix!

thnx!
-k

why don't you just put the .dlls back where they were without Live running?

OR

put all the VSTs in another (temporary) folder and see if Live will start without them??

Thnx
I've tried that.

I renamed all the folders..then renamed them back.. then i ran sonar and it was fine..unfortunately live just gets to the end of booting up and it just disappears...it leaves itself running in the processes on my task manager as i mentioned, but the application is gone ...i can keep trying, perhaps there is something i'm not thinking of ...

...bump..


no luck so far...another possibility i thought about overnite was to try to get the update and install that..

find your preferences file and delete it.

delete the Live Preferences.cfg file and try again. You will find this file in the following paths:

* Windows (Live 3): (Installation Directory)\Ableton\Preferences
* Windows (Live 4 and later versions): C:\Documents and Settings\your user name\Application Data\Ableton\Live\Preferences
* Mac OS 9: /System/Preferences/Ableton
* Mac OS X: /User/Library/Preferences/Ableton

Note that on some Windows systems the application data folder is hidden by default. Here is how to make it visible:

Windows XP/2000

1. Launch Explorer.
2. Select Tools/Folder Options/View.
3. Check "Show hidden files and folders."

Thnx so much. That worked

Strangely..when i started live, my ASIO driver for my FA66 audio interface didnt load, and it said that my ASIO pod xt (podxt being the guitar amp i use) was not available and so it started without ASIO... i could see in a log i found that this was the problem...the thing is that i didnt do anything that i thought would cause me to change my audio interface drivers!!

i was able to just tell it to use my F66, and then asio loaded fine... and i can move on but it was a pretty strange thing

thnx again!