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Hi everyone! My PC "encountered a serious error" and when I finally restored Live 11 I needed to reset the preferences, VSTs are fine but is there a way to restore my favourites and ideally my inputs and outputs (in my audio settings. I had a whole bunch of external hardware settings in the favourites. I have backblaze as a cloud backup and my user library etc is on a separate hard drive. I tried doing a system restore but no luck there. I thought I had overkill with backups so maybe there is a file (files) I can get from backblaze cloud backup or my user library or...????

thanks for reading!!!!

The names of the collections as well as other settings are stored inside Library.cfg.
Preferences are stored in Preferences.cfg.
Maybe you used an Options.txt file.

Copy all those files from the backup to the preferences folder of Live.
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Ableton\Live x.x.x\Preferences\

Note: Here's how to access hidden folders


The contents of the Collections are saved in the folder Ableton Folder Info inside the User Library. I assume you have restored this folder in its entirety.

OK mate I will do that later today, thanks so much. I will probably set a system restore point prior to doing this as well, I will report back!!!

Awesome so far Can you tell me where the input and out put configs are stored? Just curious if I could find them on my backup anywhere, All my favourites are back yay!!

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Sun Feb 26, 2023 11:51 pm

Awesome so far Can you tell me where the input and out put configs are stored?

I assume in the Preferences.cfg file. But if you restored that file and you don't see the configs, then I don't know.
Can't check the files on my own computer right now.

All my favourites are back yay!!

That worked!! Had to find the backup with the correct date, You are a treasure mate!! Thanks so much