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I'd like to not have to close/restart Max6 every time I create a new abstraction or patcher and save it. This happens regardless whether I save into a top level folder defined in my search paths or in any of their subfolders.

Is there a way to tell Max to refresh its list of objects?

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Seems like something is wrong with either your method or your installation or something..

Any newly saved .maxpat can be loaded as abstraction/bpatcher if it has been saved to (or is located in) the same file path as the (already saved) patch you are currently loading it into or if the .maxpat you're trying to abstract-ify has been saved to any location within Max's file search path.

Works for me every time without any problem, never needing to restart Max.

Indeed, and I'm having a brain freeze because of course it's supposed to work that way and I depend on it all the time.

But it is suddenly (as of earlier today) NOT doing this. The only activity I did today that's different from normal development was some experiments using the 'dispose' and 'wclose' messages. Could that have screwed something up?

The question now is how to make it work properly again. I'll try rebooting my machine because restarting Max does not fix the problem.

Indeed, and I'm having a brain freeze because of course it's supposed to work that way and I depend on it all the time.
But it is suddenly (as of earlier today) NOT doing this. The only activity I did today that's different from normal development was some experiments using the 'dispose' and 'wclose' messages. Could that have screwed something up?
The question now is how to make it work properly again. I'll try rebooting my machine because restarting Max does not fix the problem.

So after I rebooted my machine, Max6 started being able to find newly created objects again. There must be some background task that got hosed.

New patchers not found unless I quit/restart Max