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Hi Community,

Wondering if anyone has the solution to an issue I'm encountering.

Situation: I have 2 separate user libraries for Live, on 2 separate hard drives; one for my laptop, one for my desktop. Sometimes I complete a library task in my desktop (say, warping and trimming some drum loop samples and saving them as warped clips in my user library) and then want to transfer the clips to my other user library. I have the same sample libraries installed on both HDs, but of course when I copy the .als files or .alc's from HD1 to the User Library on HD2, these files are still referencing the sample file locations on HD1. So when I load them in a track from my User Library on HD2, I get the 'media files missing' alert. I can go into Library management and point to the folder on HD2 where the samples are - Auto search works it out pretty quick from there. But...I have quite a few banks of clips I'm trying to transfer over, and doing the auto search track by track for each .als is...it sucks.

Questions:

-Is there a way to use the File Management System to correct the sample locations for large groups of clips (saved as .als) at once, without having to load them all up track by track?

-Is there some workaround that I don't know about for managing/syncing 2 user libraries on separate hard drives? Ideally I'd like to just keep them synced and updated with one another - is there some way to do this??

Thanks for your time and responses!!

jankyjameson wrote:

Situation: I have 2 separate user libraries for Live, on 2 separate hard drives;
-Is there a way to use the File Management System to correct the sample locations for large groups of clips (saved as .als) at once, without having to load them all up track by track?

-Is there some workaround that I don't know about for managing/syncing 2 user libraries on separate hard drives? Ideally I'd like to just keep them synced and updated with one another - is there some way to do this??!

One way I suppose is to keep the samples in the exact same paths in both machines and sync these as the rest of you User Library. That might include having the same short user name. I'm not sure if Live uses absolute paths though. It might be they are always relative. I know Native Instruments Reaktor wants absolute paths, which is a nuisance.

For synchronization I use the commercial Superflexible Synchonizer, that I understand now is called "Syncover". It can even keep track of moved files.

There's plenty of alternatives, some free like SyncTwoFolders, though I haven't tried that one.