auto-completion problem for standard max/msp objects

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    Ben Carey
    Nov 10 2009 | 11:58 am
    Hi,
    I have had this problem for a while, thought it wouldn't bother me but it has starting niggling away and slowing down my workflow I am confused as to why I can't see some standard max and msp object names appearing in the drop down menu when I start typing in the object box?? Things like cycle~, line~, metro and a host of other standard objects don't drop down - I need to type them in fully. There is no problem with max finding these objects once they are typed correctly - however I did like having to only type one or two letters to get to the drop down menu.
    Any ideas? I have set the file preferences correctly - with the application folder in there as well as other folders in which I have externals stored.
    Thanks in advance,
    Ben

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      Bas van der Graaff
      Nov 10 2009 | 2:10 pm
      Do try to harvest metadata again. Paste this into a max window and click it. I had some trouble with the autocomplete menu when I ran a second instance of Max before. The documents that contain these are in Cycling '74/init in your Max folder.
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      Ben Carey
      Nov 10 2009 | 9:21 pm
      Perfect, that fixed the problem immediately - thanks for this!!
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      joumik
      Feb 05 2011 | 9:57 am
      yeah !!!!!
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      Mattijs
      Mar 26 2011 | 10:32 am
      Thanks for this Bas, I was running into exactly this problem and your solution worked.
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      Matthias S.
      Apr 22 2011 | 7:05 pm
      Hi,
      I still have the same problems after using this db.reset method. I cannot see any autocompletion, although it had worked before. The "Object box autocompletion" is activated. What else do I have to consider?
      Thank you!
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      thouldcroft
      May 22 2011 | 10:44 pm
      Hi, I remember coming across this post a month ago, and I am now having the same problem.
      The only change I've made to Max is setting the default grid size to a smaller grid for unlocked patches. Next thing I know, Max doesn't auto-complete for new objects!
      I hadn't upgraded to 5.1.8 yet, so I was hoping that would help, but no luck.
      I've tried the reset that Bas van der Graaff posted, but this still doesn't solve the problem.
      Do I need to delete a preference file maybe?
      Thanks!
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      ebreitweiser
      Jan 15 2012 | 9:33 pm
      omg Bas thank you!!!!
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      Eav
      Jan 15 2012 | 10:07 pm
      Hi,
      At first Bas' reset didn't work for me, but after restarting Max, i disabled and enabled autocompletion and now everything works again.
      So anyhow, thanks Bas!
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      petter
      Jun 23 2012 | 6:01 pm
      Great tip, thanks!
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      Stephane Morisse
      Sep 26 2012 | 7:15 am
      Auto-completion fail strikes back. Neither the ; max db.reset nor the disable/enable tricks worked...
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      Stephane Morisse
      Sep 26 2012 | 12:00 pm
      Fours hours later, after restarting quitting, etc and opening and working with max 5 (?) this finally works. But the behaviour seems a bit erratic. Let's see if other users get the same problem. Does the database rest message need time to operate ?
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      beni shwartz
      Jun 13 2015 | 1:22 pm
      I have a somewhat similar problem. Everytime I try to make a new object with Command-N, it pops up already auto-filled with a bpatcher. Tried all the listed solutions above. ANy ideas?
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      Bernd L
      Mar 22 2017 | 6:42 pm
      I just had the same problem, auto-completion didn't work anymore. But thanks to the patch above, it works again. max 7.3.1
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      Roman Franke
      Nov 19 2021 | 9:32 am
      https://cycling74.com/forums/hiding-objects-from-auto-completion