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Each page names its sources.",{"path":13,"title":14,"description":15},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fformat\u002Fcontainers","Containers and id spaces","How Live's files are packed: which are gzip-compressed XML and which are binary, what lies beside them, and how the ids inside a document are numbered.",{"path":17,"title":18,"description":19},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fformat\u002Ffileref","FileRef","A \u003CFileRef> locates one file. It appears in many containers, but only some are real dependencies.",{"path":21,"title":22,"description":23},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fformat\u002Ffinder","Finder tags, comments and plug-in bundles (macOS)","What status, reorg and the plug-in inventory read and write outside Live's own files.",{"path":25,"title":26,"description":27},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fformat\u002Ffingerprints","Fingerprints","How Live recognises a file again: the size and the checksum it stores with every reference, where vendors and pack updates break that, and what livesaver compares instead.",{"path":29,"title":30,"description":31},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fformat\u002Flive-setup","Live installation and library locations","Where Live keeps its app resources, its library folders and its own databases, and how livesaver finds them without being told. Everything below was read on a Mac; Windows is at the end, from Ableton's documentation.",{"path":33,"title":34,"description":35},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fformat\u002Fplugins","Plug-ins in Live Sets","How a Live Set stores a plug-in in each format, how the same plug-in is recognised across formats, and what an upgrade from VST2 to VST3 has to carry over.",{"path":37,"title":38,"description":39},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fformat\u002Fversions","\u003CAbleton> root attributes per Live version","The root is \u003CAbleton MajorVersion MinorVersion SchemaChangeCount Creator Revision>. Creator is \"Ableton Live x.y.z\".",{"path":41,"title":42,"description":43},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fguide\u002Fbrowser","In the browser","The app also runs on its own, as a page in your browser. It reads the folders you give it and changes nothing: good for a first look, or on a computer where you cannot install anything. In Chrome and Edge it can also fix samples and upgrade plug-ins, if you switch that on: see Fixing in the page.",{"path":45,"title":46,"description":47},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fguide\u002Fcommand-line","The command line","Everything the app does, the livesaver command does too, and more: project status in Finder, a catalog of your sets to search, and codemods. Every command only plans unless you pass --apply.",{"path":49,"title":50,"description":51},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fguide\u002Fgetting-started","Getting started","livesaver finds the samples your Ableton Live sets have lost, collects them into their projects, and shows which plug-ins are missing. This page takes you from nothing to your first scan.",{"path":53,"title":54,"description":55},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fguide\u002Fhistory","History and undo","Everything livesaver changes is written down as a run: what it was asked, every step it took, and the original of every set it rewrote. That is what makes an undo possible, also weeks later.",{"path":57,"title":58,"description":59},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fguide\u002Fmissing","When samples stay missing","A fix can only find what is in the folders it searches. What stays missing is listed by where it came from, because what helps differs: a pack is installed again, an old drive is plugged in, a folder is added.",{"path":61,"title":62,"description":63},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fguide\u002Fplugins","Plug-ins","Live finds a plug-in by its format and its id, never by its name. livesaver reads which plug-ins your sets use and compares them with what is installed, the way Live does, so you know before you open a set what will be missing in it.",{"path":65,"title":66,"description":67},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fguide\u002Fquestions","Questions and answers","Short answers to what comes up first. If yours is not here, ask on GitHub.",{"path":69,"title":70,"description":71},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fguide\u002Fsafety","How your work is kept safe","livesaver edits the files your music lives in. These are the rules it keeps, so that nothing is lost.",{"path":73,"title":74,"description":75},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fguide\u002Fsamples","Fix missing samples","A set that has lost its samples opens in Live with “Media files are missing”. livesaver finds the files again by what they are, puts them into the project, and points the set at them, for every project at once.",{"path":77,"title":78,"description":79},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fguide\u002Fwindows","livesaver on Windows","livesaver is made and tested on a Mac. Windows is new: it is built from what Ableton documents about Live on Windows and from the way sets that were saved on Windows store their files. No one has tried it on a Windows computer with Live yet. This page says what is there, what differs from a Mac, and what is not known.",{"path":81,"title":82,"description":83},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fverification","Verification","What is checked, and how to repeat it. Checks on a real library are read-only; everything that\nwrites runs on temporary copies.",{"path":85,"title":86,"description":87},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fweb","The web app","apps\u002Fweb is one app (Vite, Vue, Nuxt UI) that runs in two situations:",{"id":89,"title":58,"body":90,"description":59,"extension":310,"meta":311,"navigation":312,"path":57,"seo":313,"stem":314,"__hash__":315},"docs\u002Fdocs\u002Fguide\u002Fmissing.md",{"type":91,"value":92,"toc":301},"minimark",[93,97,100,107,112,120,201,205,212,215,219,230,251,254,258,291,295],[94,95,58],"h1",{"id":96},"when-samples-stay-missing",[98,99,59],"p",{},[98,101,102],{},[103,104],"img",{"alt":105,"src":106},"Missing samples by where they came from, each source with what to do about it","images\u002Fmissing-light.webp",[108,109,111],"h2",{"id":110},"by-where-they-came-from","By where they came from",[98,113,114,115,119],{},"Open ",[116,117,118],"strong",{},"Samples › Missing",". 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Choose the folder, then scan again. What the folder has is found, wherever in it the files lie now.",[98,213,214],{},"It does not have to be the exact folder. A whole backup drive works too: livesaver looks through all of it and recognises the files by their fingerprint.",[108,216,218],{"id":217},"installed-libraries","Installed libraries",[98,220,221,222,225,226,229],{},"Vendors such as Native Instruments sometimes save their samples again when a library is updated: the same audio, a slightly larger file. In a folder marked ",[116,223,224],{},"Contains installed libraries",", livesaver accepts such a file when the audio in it is the same. ",[186,227,228],{},"\u002FUsers\u002FShared"," is marked from the start.",[98,231,232,233,236,237,240,241,244,245,250],{},"A library can also be installed in another version than your sets remember: its vendor gave the files other tags, and with them another fingerprint. Nothing confirms such a file, so it counts as missing, although it lies at the same place under the same name. The scan says when that is so: ",[116,234,235],{},"“… of these are in your installed libraries”",", on the overview and above the list of missing samples, with ",[116,238,239],{},"Take them too",". That switches on ",[116,242,243],{},"Also accept a library file with another fingerprint"," (also in the settings) and scans again. Such a match is ",[246,247,249],"a",{"href":248},"samples#uncertain-matches","uncertain",", and listed as such: a fix can leave it out.",[98,252,253],{},"Live itself lists these samples as missing, too: it looks for the file it remembers, not for one that sounds the same.",[108,255,257],{"id":256},"why-a-file-that-is-there-is-not-taken","Why a file that is there is not taken",[259,260,261,268,274,280],"ul",{},[262,263,264,267],"li",{},[116,265,266],{},"Different content",": a file of that name exists, but its audio is not the one the set used. Taking it would change your music without telling you.",[262,269,270,273],{},[116,271,272],{},"Several candidates",": several files of that name fit, and they differ. livesaver does not guess.",[262,275,276,279],{},[116,277,278],{},"It lies in a folder that was not searched."," Add the folder.",[262,281,282,285,286,290],{},[116,283,284],{},"The folder could not be read."," macOS keeps apps out of some folders until you allow it. The overview says how many folders could not be read; allow access when macOS asks, or give your terminal ",[287,288,289],"em",{},"Full Disk Access"," in System Settings › Privacy & Security.",[108,292,294],{"id":293},"take-the-list-with-you","Take the list with you",[98,296,297,300],{},[116,298,299],{},"Copy list"," copies the missing samples of a group, or of all groups, as text: name, where it was, where it came from. Handy for a search of your own, or to ask someone who may still have the files.",{"title":302,"searchDepth":303,"depth":303,"links":304},"",2,[305,306,307,308,309],{"id":110,"depth":303,"text":111},{"id":203,"depth":303,"text":204},{"id":217,"depth":303,"text":218},{"id":256,"depth":303,"text":257},{"id":293,"depth":303,"text":294},"md",{},true,{"title":58,"description":59},"docs\u002Fguide\u002Fmissing","JuuxUeGohJyMSNGcS6M3QlVuAmpKQVxNPJ1hdAk1g7A",1791245843399]