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Hello,
I was wondering if there was a quick way to locate audio samples when the Live doesn't found them anymore.
I have many tunes that were moved from another HD, and Live needs to relocate each individual audio file again.
Any advises?
Many thanks for your help!

Mac or PC?

mac
thanks!

You could manually make a "fake" directory and put all the samples in there, and then move them back in live again...

So, for instance, say the other hard drive was named "otherdrive". Open up a terminal, and type the following:

mkdir "/Volumes/otherdrive"

This has to be done from terminal, as finder hides the /Volumes directory from you. In case you were wondering, all connected drives in OSX get "mounted" under /Volumes, but if you manually make the directory, you can fool the system into thinking that a drive is there.

Then:

cd "/Volumes/otherdrive"
cp -r "$HOME/Desktop/liveset.als" .

Assuming that the new liveset is sitting on your desktop, and the old liveset used to be on the top level of the otherdrive. If not, you'll have to use mkdir to make the directory that it used to be in, and then move it in here. Then run:

open liveset.als

This will open live for you. At this point, you should move the samples in the file browser to another location, close and save the set, and then copy it back to wherever you want it. The next time you open it, the links should be correctly updated.

Sorry if this explanation is a bit confusing... but do you get the general drift of what I'm saying to do?

I got it
Many thanks for your time.
Do you know by any chance if it's possible (like in Logic) to assign different outputs ports to the tracks? Let's say guitar on output 1/2 and grooves on output 3/4.
Cheers