Danger! Find Your Missing Files in Ableton Live
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- Опубликовано: 30 ноя 2022
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We’ve all had this moment… you’ve loaded up a track that you’re working on and some of the files are missing. Gone. Vanished into binary thin air… You curse the computer music gods and then gear sets in. Where’s my missing files? And how the heck do I find them?
Fortunately, if you’re working with Ableton Live, they’ve got your back and made it easy to locate the missing files.
I recently went back to a project and had this happen to me, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to share with you how I resurrected my track and found the missing files.
If you’re stuck with the unfortunate situation of having a corrupt hard disk, I HIGHLY suggest an app called Disk Drill. It performs a deep scan of your hard drive and will locate and restore your files based on the settings you choose. I lost a terabyte hard drive last year and thought I was ruined. It had my music and video on it as a back up and it failed! After panicking and looking at many solutions that costed more I gave Disk Drill a try and was amazed at how well it worked. It recovered everything! 
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Big love from Australia brutha! Just saved me hours of work tonight 🙏🏼❤️
Glad it worked out for you! 🥰
The double click was a lifesaver. Thanks for the help
Thank you for your support, I’m happy to have helped!
Hey, I have a slightly different problem. Entire songs have disappeared on me. I can see the titles but i can't click on them which makes me think they must still exist somewhere. I am trying to get my stuff uploaded onto bandcamp but an entire album , and some newer songs I've been working on, have become inaccessible. Strangely, a few songs that had disappeared in this way reappeared on their own but the rest remain in limbo somewhere. Any ideas?? Thanks
Hey , but my what if my “go” button doesn’t find any other candidates ?
I have the same problem but there is no video
Ooof I’ve lost tracks in the past from not saving my progress enough. Painful lesson! I save regularly now
Sorry to hear this Friend! What method do you use for preventing lost tracks now?
What happens if you manually or automatically do not find the missing file?
My mac crashed in the middle of a project. After it restarted, Ableton could no longer locate the samples once I re-opened the project. Problem is that it doesn't show me the orange ribbon message at the bottom indicating the missing files so I can't have Ableton search for them. Have you encountered that situation? Thanks!
I’m sorry to hear about your lost project/files. That can be so frustrating!
That exact scenario hasn’t happened to me but I’m guessing your project was damaged so badly it couldn’t recover your most recent work. What version are you using? We’re you able to open an older version that had the missing samples? I often import tracks and automation in from older versions of projects by dragging them in from previous saves. Might be worth a shot.
@@ElectronicMusicTips Thanks for your response. Yesterday I was able to open the project from a backup I had in an external HD and it recognized the samples. Couldn’t recover the work I was doing when my mac crashed but at least was able to recover a version prior to it.
BTW, using Ableton Live 11 Standard. Cheers!