Opening Max4 files in Max6 - poly~ and patcher don't find their encapsulate file

pdelges's icon

I'm porting a good old Max4 patch in Max6.

When I open a patch including poly~ objects, the encapsulated patcher (still in Max4) is not found, so all connections to and from poly~'s instances are removed. And they are lost once I save the patch in Max6. This is quite annoying!
The same thing happens with Max4 abstractions.

Fortunately, this is not the case with Max5. So I first need to open the file in Max5, save it as a .maxpatch file, then open it in Max6.

Roman Thilenius's icon

what about renaming it (removing the .mxb extension))

pdelges's icon

There is no extension in those Max4 filename. And adding an extendion doesn't help.
I suppose cycling74 silently dropped Max4 compatibilty.

Anyway I'm slowly getting used to switch between Max4, Max5 and Max6 all day long ;-)

Emmanuel Jourdan's icon

Please contact support with an example, what you're experiencing is not expected.