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Think I might have accidentaly changed something in my preferences because all my effects settings + racks have disappeared.

Think I may have done it when I turned on VST plugins. Iam on a mac if it helps.

Cheers

Hello Sam Flanagan,

Live stalls all instrument and effect presets in its Library folder. You have not lost the instruments and effects itself, just the factory presets. I assume you have accidentally changed the Library Path: you can choose the location of Live´s library folder freely on your hard drive, but the Library path needs to point Live to the Library folder, so the presets are available. Please try, if setting the Library path back to its default location already fixes the problem:

PC: C:\Documents and Settings\your user name\My Documents\Ableton\Library

Mac: user/library/application support/ableton/library

In case you had installed Live´s library folder to a different than the default location when you first started Live, please set the Library path to this location.

Once the Library path points to the right library folder again, you´ll be able to load all presets etc. again.


best,
Christian Kleine
[email protected]

Cheers...

Didnt think that I'd lost them. Think I might have changed the folder as you described. Iam sure your explaination will solve the problem.

Thanks for the quick response. Real customer service! Very impressed.

Thanks again.