tom w

I'm working on a Mac with Max 7, and I'm confused by the search paths that Max is using. When I open Max, I can type in the name of a patcher (i.e. mypatch.maxpat) that only exists within a folder in my ~/Documents/Project_X folder, and it finds it. I have never added this folder to the Max search path, and it is not listed in the search paths. The problem is, I'm now working in ~/Documents/Project_Y and some of the files have the same names as those in Project_X. Max gets confused as to which version of my mypatch.maxpat I want to use.

How stop Max searching the previous project folder for files?

I'm working on a Mac with Max 7, and I'm confused by the search paths that Max is using. When I open Max, I can type in the name of a patcher (i.e. mypatch.maxpat) that only exists within a folder in my ~/Documents/Project_X folder, and it finds it. I have never added this folder to the Max search path, and it is not listed in the search paths. The problem is, I'm now working in ~/Documents/Project_Y and some of the files have the same names as those in Project_X. Max gets confused as to which version of my mypatch.maxpat I want to use. 

How stop Max searching the previous project folder for files? 

max-7-search-paths-remove-automatically-added-project-folders

Ah - found it. It's because they were in the Recently Used list...

I noticed that 'Add Patchers to Search Path on Save' was ticked, so I unchecked this. I was then able to remove the offending files from the search path manually by going to File Browser > Recently Used and then right clicking on the individual patchers. It would be helpful to have a 'clear all' button for this as it took me quite a while to purge this list!

Max 7 search paths - remove automatically added project folders