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Keep your Ableton projects intact.

Practical walk-throughs for backing up, moving, organizing, and recovering Ableton Live projects, so a folder of .als files never turns into lost work.

• How to back up Ableton projects
  Collect samples, copy the whole project folder, and keep versioned off-site copies.
• Fix missing or offline samples in Ableton
  Relink offline media with the File Manager, then collect samples so it never happens again.
• How to move an Ableton project to another computer
  Collect, copy the folder, reinstall plugins, and relink anything still offline.
• How to organize your Ableton project folders
  One project per song, samples inside, consistent names, and a starting template.
• How to recover a lost or unsaved Ableton project
  Restore from the Backup folder or a crash recovery, then turn on safeguards.

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