Live 7 Demo "Broke" My Library Presets in Live 6

Naive Teen Idol · Post by **Naive Teen Idol** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 5:33 am

Countless presets and racks say they are broken now -- corrupt b/c of a newer version. What do I do to recover them?

CarlSeleborg · Post by **CarlSeleborg** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:06 am

Hi,

Normally, Live 7 should have warned you about this and prompted you to select another location for your Live 7 Library when it first started. Did this message appear? If not, then it's a bug.

Carl

Naive Teen Idol · Post by **Naive Teen Idol** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:33 pm

I'm pretty sure it asked me if I wanted to install that library elsewhere -- it didn't say anything about it screwing up Live 6, b/c otherwise I obv. would have followed that.

Is there any way of fixing it?

Naive Teen Idol · Post by **Naive Teen Idol** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:21 pm

Other than upgrading to Live 7, that is...

dustplanks · Post by **dustplanks** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:13 am

the same thing happened to me

Naive Teen Idol · Post by **Naive Teen Idol** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:48 am

This is what the Abes sent me:

There are two possibilites when you install the Live 7 demo:

a) you can choose a new place for the Live 7 library in order to prevent
Live from overriding your Live 6 library
b) you do remformat your old Library to the Live 7 format.

You can only cmpletely deinstall everything and reinstall Live 6 if you
want to go back now.

Here´s how:

Start Live, go to Preferences/File Folders and write down the "Library
Path"
* Uninstall Live from 'Control Panel/Software' (WinXP) or remove the
application folder (Mac OSX)
* open Windows Explorer (WinXP) or Finder (OSX) and browse to the
library path
* Delete the Library folder (in fact the whole 'Ableton' folder) -
please make sure you have not stored any personal projects inside this
folder.
* Remove the preferences.cfg file which can be found here:

Mac OSX:
/user/library/preferences/ableton/live x.x/preferences.cfg

WinXP:
C:/documents and settings/[username]/application data/ableton/live
x.x/preferences/preferences.cfg

*Note that on some Windows systems the application data folder is hidden
by default. Here is what you have to do to make it visible:
1. Launch Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer!).
2. Select Tools/Folder Options/View.
3. Check "Show hidden files and folders."

Best,
C. Kleine

Naive Teen Idol · Post by **Naive Teen Idol** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:42 pm

The problem that keeps on giving -- now the Live 7 demo has broken MIDI send via ReWire to Reason.

This is what I recently sent the Abes:

"I recently bought Reason 4, and while I haven't yet reinstalled (or upgraded to 7), by installing Live 7's library in the existing Live 6 library, it's also screwed up the MIDI send from Live to Reason. The only way Live 6 and Reason work together now is if I program all the MIDI for Reason in Reason itself and then just play them in parallel with an audio return. I know this is also because of the demo installation problem b/c when I fire up the Live 7 demo, MIDI sends to Reason instruments work perfectly."

ewistrand · Post by **ewistrand** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:54 pm

Update Reason to 4.0.1 and see if your problem's fixed.

ew

Naive Teen Idol · Post by **Naive Teen Idol** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:42 pm

Just did. Same problem.

Naive Teen Idol · Post by **Naive Teen Idol** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:42 am

Hopefully, the Abes will have some insight...

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:04 am

In the past some people have had success by uninstalling reason, manually deleting any reference to 'rewire' in the registry, and then reinstalling reason

??

Naive Teen Idol · Post by **Naive Teen Idol** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:13 am

Thanks -- deleting ReWire and reinstalling it seems to have worked here.