Jason Charney

I just upgraded to Max 6.1 and saw that there's a new folder and application itself - so I have both 6.0 and 6.1 installed. Is there an easy way to merge the folders so I can keep all of my installed externals and also not have any duplicate items in the search path?

merging-6-1-and-6-0-x

if i remember correctly, no... this is because originally, a lot of externals compiled for 6.0.x didn't work on 6.1.x (pre-6.1.2 maybe ?) ; so it was recommended to make the merging manually

still, you could rename your max 6.0 folder as "Max 6.1", then run the update, it would probably update in that folder ; ALTHOUGH it might create bugs

presumably you've put all of your externals in a folder that can just be moved before deleting the 6.0.x folder.

And then - in general - I'd recommend a different filepath for your externals, abstractions and patches, in your documents folder or on a different partition. That will prevent that problem from occuring again.

presumably you've put all of your externals in a folder that can just be moved before deleting the 6.0.x folder. 

And then - in general - I'd recommend a different filepath for your externals, abstractions and patches, in your documents folder or on a different partition. That will prevent that problem from occuring again.


That's pretty annoying, but I guess it's my fault - In the past I've installed extra externals and help files in the "Cycling '74" folders with the ones included with installation. Guess I'm gonna have to print some file lists and do some cross-checking.

That's pretty annoying, but I guess it's my fault - In the past I've installed extra externals and help files in the "Cycling '74" folders with the ones included with installation. Guess I'm gonna have to print some file lists and do some cross-checking.
Thanks for your responses!


Merging 6.1 and 6.0.x