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Posted: **Sun Oct 02, 2016 5:51 pm**

Trying to clean up my HD a bit and I notice I have some fairly large files in User>Library>Application Support>Ableton. I have folders from various versions of Live from 7.x until 9.6. They all have a few folders and files in them, the largest being "files.db".

Is it safe to delete these? I imagine it is for older versions of Live, but how about the ones I still Use: 8.4.2 and 9.6.2?

I did a search in forums already, but maybe I used the wrong keywords because I wasn't able to find anything decisive on this issue.

Thanks in advance

Posted: **Sun Oct 02, 2016 6:05 pm**

Don't delete the ones for the versions you still use!

"files.db" is the index for Live's browser.

(https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/artic ... -malformed)

Posted: **Sun Oct 02, 2016 6:22 pm**

Thanks Steko

Posted: **Sun Oct 02, 2016 8:54 pm**

Posted: **Thu Mar 14, 2019 3:35 pm**

Hi, I'm also encountering this issue. I have three big files in my Live Database folder.
Live-files-32.db
Live-files-33.db
Live-files-34.db

Can I delete any of these? Why are they random numbers?

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