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Recently upgraded to 10.

The bulk of my sample library is stored on externals. With live 9, I would use the add folder function, select the section I wanted, click on that folder in the browser and I could navigate to sub folders and find the samples within.

Live sees the external and the folders, but when I add the external HD or any sub folders into the browser, they're all empty. I've even added folders only housing audio files and it's still empty in the browser.

What's the deal here? All the info I've found from Ableton suggests this should work the same. What am I missing?

I thought I had done this already because I could see file extensions in the finder BUT, in the finder preferences, I found the show file extensions was unchecked. (New OS along side upgrading to 10) There's a shit ton of samples on this external and the spinny wheel thing by "places" has been going for about ten minutes so I'm assuming it worked.

Hi, where is finder preferences located ? I don't see that option in my live 10 file folder menu . Ableton keeps seeing my full sample folders (except for one i previously added on the fee trial version) as empty ever since I paid for my Ableton license . Prior to that it seemed to work. I chose Ableton over Bitwig but the irony is Bitwig reads all my folders fine and Ableton is just giving me a pain of a time after I paid for it .

It's weird that this Finder preference has any impact, but:
go to Finder (in the top menu bar) > preferences > advanced options (or something like that - my OS is not in english).