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I'm going to give Max 6.1 another shot....as I'm setting up the file preference ordering, it occurs to me to wonder whether I would save some time by (a) removing the 'examples' entry and (b) moving the Patches entry after my own folders (or somewhere in the middle)

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Even if you are dealing with thousands and thousands of externals, media files and patchers, and are running your OS off of an old Zip Drive, you aren't going to notice any speedup with or without the examples folder. It's not much stuff, and it's all cached at startup so that subsequent searches don't occur from disk.

Are you having speed problems with searching in Max 6(.1)? Or is this of a precautionary/prophylactic nature?

Two of the Max 6(.1) features, projects and packages, can be used to make search path management cleaner and easier. Packages establish a nicer user- and system-domain location for files which aren't part of the Max install. Projects can be used to isolate/quarantine Project-specific elements so that they don't populate/pollute the global search path, for instance, the thousands of media files that you need for "rad_vj_noizz.maxpat", but not for "serious_doctoral_diss.maxpat".

Hope this clarifies -- if you are actually experiencing problems, please drop a note back, Jeremy

Mostly prophylactic --- I'm not generally a fan of premature optimization but as I was setting up Max 6.1 to try it again, I thought it was worth asking.

Unfortunately, Max 6.1 still crashes when I try to run my environment (seems JUCE related) so I'm back to 5.1.9 again (sigh)

Unfortunately, Max 6.1 still crashes when I try to run my environment (seems JUCE related) so I'm back to 5.1.9 again  (sigh)


Have you been in touch with support (at) cycling74.com about this? Crashing is not a Max 6 feature, so we'd like to know about what's happening. You can also post crashlogs here, but support is better equipped to deal with these sorts of problems.

Thanks, Jeremy --- I have already reported this to that email address (including stack trace). I've had grief with my environment with every version of 6.x so I've never been able to switch over to it, which is really frustrating, it has so many nice new features.

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