
CHAPTER 5. MANAGING FILES AND SETS 54
A New Project Was
Added by Saving a Live
Set Outside its Original
Project.
Note that the new project folder has no Samples folder (yet). Electro with Piano.als is
still referencing the piano sample from the original Tango Project. There is nothing wrong
with this except for when the Tango Project is moved away or deleted; then Tango with
Piano.als will be missing samples. You can prevent this by collecting external les. Even
after the fact, Live's tools for searching missing les can help solve this problem.
There is actually no need to keep a Project's Live Set exactly one level below the Project
itself. Within a project folder, you can create any number of sub-folders and move les
around to organize them as desired, although you many need to use the File Manager to
teach the Project about the changes you've made.
In general, Live will do what it can to prevent situations such as orphaned (Project-less) Live
Sets (and Live Clips and presets), which have the potential of confusing both the user and
Live's le management tools. It cannot, however, control situations in which Sets or les are
moved out of order and become disorganized via the Explorer (Windows)/Finder (Mac).
A note for users of older Live versions: Live 8 does not allow overwriting Live Sets that were
created by older versions to prevent compatibility problems. Instead, you will be requested
to Save As.... Doing this will insure that the newly saved Live Sets reside in project folders.
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