Reference Manual

CHAPTER 5. MANAGING FILES AND SETS 58
The piece evolves towards something entirely different, and we feel that it should live in a
Project of its own. So, we Save As... under a new name and in some location outside the
current Project, say the Desktop:
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 samples. Even after
the fact, Live's tools for searching missing samples 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.
In general, Live will do what it can to prevent situations such as orphaned (Project-less)
Live Sets (and Live Clips and presets) or nested project folders, 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 6 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.