lisamarie

I just downloaded the Recipes and I started to get the error message, "Warning: Multiple Files In Your Search Path With the Same Name...".

The pathway indicates the duplicate files are in the maxref folder but when I look in that folder there is only one of the files.

Does anyone have a suggestion of how to prevent the warnings?

I just downloaded the Recipes and I started to get the error message, "Warning: Multiple Files In Your Search Path With the Same Name...".
The pathway indicates the duplicate files are in the maxref folder but when I look in that folder there is only one of the files. 

warning-message

The search path isn't just one file, it's any file that Max typically looks in (some of which are added manually in Options> File Preferences...). So it's probably telling you where the duplicate is, but the original may be in your max-externals folder or somewhere near your project.

The search path isn't just one file, it's any file that Max typically looks in (some of which are added manually in Options> File Preferences...).  So it's probably telling you where the duplicate is, but the original may be in your max-externals folder or somewhere near your project.


I posted the same problem just recently. check here:

https://cycling74.com/forums/warning-message-in-max-window-what-to-do

I posted the same problem just recently.  check here:

https://cycling74.com/forums/warning-message-in-max-window-what-to-do


You also can trash your Preferences folder and that will stop the warnings, at least for awhile. Though you might not want to trash it if you've set a lot of prefs. If you do, Max makes a new default Preferences folder the next time you run it.

Warning message