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Did anyone try to transfer complete self contained sets from a windows PC to a mac on 6.05? I was just doing this and although the project folder contained all the samples/recordings, the live set would open with missing samples. If I use the built in search/filemanagement and it doesn't find them although I chose as only option option "search in project folder". If I click on the search button to the left of the missing sample, Live find's it. After dragging and dropping it from the browser to the "Missing samples list" a search with only option "search next to found sample" would be successful.

But why in hell does a freshly self contained set open with missing samples and not find them in it's own project folder?

I'm having this exact same problem, also transfering from PC to Mac, right now and I was about to post on it! I'm disappointed no one has responed to you yet. Have you figured anything out??? Does anyone know?

Hi,

there may be an issue of relative path, and we'll check it right away.

The method you used to make Live find the files is valid, also, you could have enabled 'fully rescan folders'. We are investigating that search behaviour too.

Kind regards,
Amaury

Hi,

Could you please try to reproduce the problem, making sure:
-that you've 'collected and saved' the project properly (use the file manager to make sure every sample is there)
-try if including the samples from the Library matters
-not move any files manually inside the Project folder once you've finished 'collect and save'

I've tried and could not reproduce that easily, so I'm looking for what we could have done differently, or as to know if there could be a user error (happens to all of us!)

Regards,
Amaury

Okay, I finally got it to work thanks to a tip on another thread, so let me tell pepezaba how I did it.

First, my computer wasn't creating projects for the individual songs because they were being saved to the Ableton library. The project for a given track was just the entire library. I saved the set outside of the library, and then it created a separate project for just that song. Then, if you have a project, you collect and save for that project, and I think it asks you if you want to collect the project samples and the external samples, and obviously click on both. Then, you need to create a PACK, which is also in the manage files thing. If you do that it should create an alp file, and then that should contain the whole project and all the samples in one piece that you can send. On the next computer, it'll have you install the alp file the way you do when you install the Essential Instrument Collection, and then the set should be there and complete. With mine, it still said samples were missing at first, but then it found all but one of them. Not sure why it didn't find all of them, but one sample I can send. Make sure you hit the "go" button above where it says missing samples. Hope some of that helps.

Hi,

I would review the process of saving a project as self contained, and do more trials, I'm sure you will get it right. If there are points that are not clear, let me know.

Regards,
Amaury