Sample offline ableton как исправить

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1. Even though I follow this procedure – including Collect All and Save – I have occasionally experienced this message when copying sets to a backup computer using a USB stick. The “missing” sample was always in the Samples folder, but the link said it was missing. Eventually I started using Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the entire hard drive to the backup computer and I never experienced the problem again.

   Have you ever experienced this?

   Thank you for the excellent Live tips, I’m hooked!

   1. I personally haven’t, but I encountered it during my tech support time. Generally somehow the checksums of the files were changed and thus not recognised by Live as the same file anymore. Could be the USB drive, reformatting it might help. There’s an Options.txt command to remedy it though: https://www.ableton.com/en/articles/not-replacing-candidates/

2. “The audio you recorded is gone, and
   your DAW doesnt know where it is”
   Ableton is CLUELESS.

   SongFolder>SongFile>AudioFolderForSong
   See how easy it is with Logic,cubase,protools,
   Sonar,bitwig,fruityloops,digitalPerformer?
   Live’s file management seems like it was
   created by five people who never met.
   I’ll never use it again after what happened today.

   1. If you had actually read the tutorial instead of ranting you would have noticed that it works exactly like that in Ableton Live. With the added difference that imported files need to be collected (copied) manually because a lot of users don’t want to have the tracks they play out twice on their hard drive. I personally hate that Logic simply imports all my files without asking. I’m also not sure why you decided to rant under my post. I’m happy to answer questions, but neither am I working for Ableton nor am I responsible for coding their software.

3. “Unless the files were deleted, renamed –OR ARE ON A DIFFERENT HARD or flash drive–, Live should turn up results and even replace the missing files.”

   I’ve followed all of the instructions in this tutorial, but Ableton is still coming up short on my files. I’ve saved my packs to an external drive, installed them, and though I can hear the samples play when I click on them in the browser, it still says that file is missing.

   I’m stuck, and can’t seem to find an answer. Thank you!

   1. If you know where they are and Live doesn’t want to replace them automatically, you can drag and drop them into the File Manager to manually replace them. IF you tried that as well, please contact Ableton’s support. They will help you figure out the problem.

4. Hello ,
   I’ve read this article but I can’t fix my problem . I changed names of folders containing
   samples and now most of my drum machines and other midi drum clips are all missing their files . I relocated and reset the library but this doesn t work . how can I get back in synch my library . also they find the audio samples but I have to add them on manually and they don’t save for the next time I open live ! what is this problem I face ;
   if anyone has an idea , thank you very much …
   benjamin

   1. The tutorial is only for missing files in Live projects, not the Library. Are you talking about the Live 8 or Live 9 Library? I can’t tell you what needs to be done without more information, but this would be a case for the Ableton support. https://www.ableton.com/en/help/contact-support/

5. yes I’ve contacted the ableton support , waiting for a response , thank you ;
   this is a nice site I’ll be going on it to check some things out ; hopefully I resolve my problem with live 8 , also I’ll most likely upgrade to live 9 after seeing some of the advanced features they offer . I think the library is independent to the live 8 one ; ok thanks

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   Just wanted to tell you keep up the excellent
   job!

7. First of all thanks for your great article

   My problem is the orange message is constantly at the bottom of my ableton “Media files are missing”

   And I have no single chance o bring them back

   How can I get rid of this message and continue my life?!

   Thanks in advance

   1. There isn’t really anything you can do, but replace the files that are missing or delete the empty clips or tracks to not receive the message again. And to always make sure you don’t save a new track/song in another Live project and if you add audio samples from elsewhere to use Collect All & Save from the File Menu.

8. Hi!

   I’ve also tried everything above. But the problem is that ALL my files are missing. I haven’t used Ableton in a while now and my hard drive is making some problems, so i wanted to make a back up of all my songs. If I load a project everything is there except for all the recorded files, in every song!

   Because my hard drive is failing I thought maybe that’s the problem. But besides that it’s failing, everything on it is still there and i can do and go wherever I want on my drive, only all my recorded files are missing.

   Thanks

   Is there any answer to this problem? Besides my own hard drive? I’ve red that others also lost a lot of files if they hadn’t used Live in while, but that shouldn’t be possible if i think about it.

   I’m still keeping a little faith, but it’s almost gone.

   I’ve almost

9. After posting the message i tried 1 last thing, and i found them! all on an external hard drive i never imagened they would be on! still thanks!

   1. This tutorial only helps to prevent this from happening the next time. If your files are missing and cannot be found on any hard or flash drive, there’s nothing that can be done anymore. Glad you found them and remember to Collect All & Save. 😉

10. I had a problem with not being able to get the majority of my audio in a project. After going slightly greyer I finally pinned it down to a corrupt VST which was on every channel. I am just a beginner and thought I might mention this and hope it helps someone.

11. This is a really big issue for longevity.
    It’s normal to change computer and hard drives over the years, and the process does seem a bit too difficult.

    I wonder why the paths couldnt be relative, so we could just have Live’s files find samples if the file structure remains the same.

    Also wouldnt it be great to have a toggle for the checksum of files expecting to be identical. That seems to happen really often and is another thing that gets in the way of being creative.

    Collect all and save, if I understood correctly makes duplicates of all the sounds inside each project folder, which is fine for sharing stuff, but terrible for ongoing management of large amounts of work.

    I would love to hear if there is a practical way to be able to swap to a duplicate drive, without going through the find files stuff..

    1. I haven’t had the issue yet, but it appears to happen more often on Windows. Well, with Collect All & Save you can decide which samples should be copied into your project. I never copy Library files, but rather keep a backup of the Library in case of emergency. Files from elsewhere or other projects I have copied over. I tend not to use the same samples twice, so this makes sense for me.

       It’s also normal for producers to make bounces of all individual tracks once a project is finished, so that no matter if plug-ins etc. are no longer working, you have all the files forever.

12. Thanks, that’s a good tip about bouncing to audio. I started doing that recently because sometimes I come back to a track years later.

    I tend to use a large sample library and like to loop & process audio, so stuff gets reused. Oh well, if ableton are listening it would make sense to have relative paths for this reason. Next time I change hard drives is going to be a lot of work. I will make sure all my projects have been through the find files process before I start working because I cannot stand any interruption once I start working creatively on music.

13. Hi there.

    I opened a project and some files are missing. They are the 808 samples of Live.
    When i use automatic search it finds candidates buit doesn`t replace them. I don`t understand this. i mean i cant start replacing the samples manually for every hihat and clap,kick,open hihat etc etc….I love Live but i find lives automatic search not working properly. For years now.

    1. Then this means that the files are not seen as the same files. The checksum isn’t the same anymore. This generally is an issue with your computer. I’d suggest to contact Ableton’s tech support and send them a Status Report as well. They should be able to help you fix this.

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