Reference Manual

36 Managing Files and Sets

•any folders from any of your hard drives that you’ve added to Live’s Browser.

Moving through the ﬁles in Live’s browser can be done with either the mouse or the computer

keyboard:

•Scroll up and down in the Browser with the up and down arrow keys, the mousewheel, or

by clicking and dragging while holding the [CTRL][ALT](PC) / [CMD][ALT](Mac) modiﬁer.

•Close and open folders, or move between the sidebar and content pane with the left and

right arrow keys.

By default, any previously open folders will close when you open a new one, but you can over-

ride this behavior by holding [CTRL](PC) / [CMD](Mac) while opening new folders.

5.1.2 User Folders

Live’s browser allows you to work with your creative tools regardless of where they are installed

on your computer. This allows you to, for example, store large sample collections on one or

more external drives, and still use the browser to access their contents - there is no need to keep

them in a single centralized location.

In order to work with your own folders in Live, you must ﬁrst add them to the browser, either by

dropping them directly into Live from the Explorer (Windows)/Finder (Mac) or by pressing the

Add Folder button in the browser’s sidebar.

After adding a user folder, Live will scan it, which “teaches” the browser about its contents. Fol-

lowing this, it will appear in the Places section of the sidebar.

Note: adding a user folder does not actually move the folder to a new location, but simply

makes it available in Live’s browser. If you reorganize your drives using Explorer (Windows)/

Finder (Mac), Live may not be able to ﬁnd user folders if they’ve been moved. For example, if

a user folder is contained on an external hard drive, and Live is opened without the drive at-

tached, the user folder will still appear in the browser but will be greyed out. You can attempt to

ﬁnd it by using the [right-click](PC) / [CTRL-click](Mac) context menu’s Locate Folder command,

or tell Live to “forget” this folder via the Remove from Sidebar command. You can also use this

command to remove folders that aren’t missing, but which you simply don’t want to work with

anymore.