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I know from the numerous posts on this subject that I am not the only person frustrated by having .asd files showing up amongst .wav files in Windows folders. The following method is the best fix I know of (so far) to still Have Live create the files, but hide them from Windows folder view.


I have tested this method on my machine only, running Windows XP Pro but will assume it works on previous builds until I hear otherwise

The first thing you will need to do is to create a .bat file,
right click on the desktop and select "new",
then "text document"
double click on it and copy the following line only, and paste it in

attrib +r +s +h c:\*.asd /s /d

then click "file", then "save as" and name the file something like "hideasd.bat"

I have presumed in this instance that c:\ is the drive in which you wish to hide the files on, if you have multiple drives just make another file and replace the "c:\" in the line of code with "d:\" or whatever drive letter you have assigned

then close notepad
you should now see a newly created .bat file on your desktop
double click the file
you will then see the Windows Dos window pop up (this will stay open for a minute or so then close)
the .asd files should now be hidden,
if you wish to view them again in the future, just create another .bat file and replace the "+" with "-"

I hope this helps some of you guys out.















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Coooool, thx man!

good tip

it seems like there should be a way to set the .asd file type to SuperHidden (or whatever it's called) so that it will be treated as a system file

but I've never been able to figure it out.

nice tip, thanks a lot, man!

you'd think it would be easy to auto hide specific file types in windows...

thanks for the tip, though!

.bat file power
Thanks for sharing this smart tip.

Take care, now we could call you the .BATman

Ok I get out after this awful joke -->[_]

There's another way that is a little more automatic... sort by file type. Then you still see the asd files, but they're grouped together, and your wave files are grouped together, so you can ignore them easier.

Thanks for sharing this! Those asd files were really pesky to me!

Question...changed the asd files to block them but now I cannot save my files because I am getting an error "Cannot be opened for writing because it is write-protected."

Question...changed the asd files to block them but now I cannot save my files because I am getting an error "Cannot be opened for writing because it is write-protected."

It's probably because I am running my songs off of an external hard drive that they are getting this write protection error.

it's because the original batch files said attrib +r +s +h - that sets them to read-only, system, hidden.
You really only want the +h.
To get yours back to writeable status... click on the folder, properties, see the 'read-only', uncheck it,
say to apply to all files and subfolders too.

or re-run the attrib command with a -r (only -r).
if you haven't, you can just do attrib +h *.asd and that will just hide them without marking them read-only.

great work man!! Really appreciate this! Can confirm this works perfectly in Windows 7