How to reset Live
- Live Versions: All
- Operating System: All
Resetting Live does the following:
- If you have a template set, it will be deleted.
- Live's preferences will be deleted; audio and MIDI hardware needs to be selected again, input/output names added again, plug-in folders need to be re-enabled (VSTs need to be rescanned), any custom preferences need to be set again.
- The Undo history will be deleted.
Note: Rather than deleting, you can instead move these files to a different location, for example, the Desktop. If the reset doesn't solve the problem, you can move them back afterward.
Live 11
Mac
- Close Live.
- In Finder, open this hidden folder (where x.x is the installed version of Live, eg. 11.0):
Users/[username]/Library/Preferences/Ableton/Live x.x
Note: Here's how to access hidden folders on Mac. - Delete Preferences.cfg and Undo folder.
- Locate this folder and delete the current template set:
Users/[username]/Music/Ableton/User Library/Templates - Launch Live.
Windows
- Close Live.
- In Windows Explorer, open this hidden folder (where x.x is the installed version of Live, eg. 11.0):
Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Ableton\Live x.x\Preferences
Note: Here's how to access hidden folders on Windows. - Delete Preferences.cfg and Undo folder
- Locate this folder and delete the current template set:
Users\[username]\Documents\Ableton\User Library\Templates - Launch Live.
Live 10 and older
Mac
- Close Live.
- In Finder, open this hidden folder (where x.x.x is the installed version of Live, eg. 10.1.30): :
Users/[username]/Library/Preferences/Ableton/Live x.x.x
Note: Here's how to access hidden folders on Mac. - Delete Preferences.cfg, Undo folder (in Live 9 this is Undo.cfg) and Template.als (if present).
- Launch Live.
Windows
- Close Live.
- In Windows Explorer, open this hidden folder (where x.x.x is the installed version of Live, eg. 10.1.30):
Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Ableton\Live x.x.x\Preferences
Note: Here's how to access hidden folders on Windows. - Delete Preferences.cfg, Undo folder (in Live 9 this is Undo.cfg) and Template.als (if present).
- Launch Live.