Running from authorized Ableton Live (Suite), still can't save

Maybe try redesignating the Max installation path in Live and make sure everything is up to date

Yeh, I tried moving Max to a different drive and changed the installation path accordingly, didn't help. Tried updating Ableton from 9.7 to 9.71, didn't help. Tried downdating Max to an earlier version, didn't help. Tried running 32-bit Max, didn't work at all.

Same issue here. Very annoying to have to deal with this. On the ableton forums is quite a bit of discussion about this but I couldn't find any statement of cycling or ableton.
Please resolve this, I am unable to use Max4Live at the moment and I am not alone it seems.

So for me the problem seems to be related to the max toolbox.
Thats sad, especially since I find the max toolbox much more intuitive than the max7 patching mechanics.

still running into this issue. extremely annoying,. Im a long time max user, this program really tought me a lot and I really like max. I even teach it at a university. This licencing stuff is the first time I feel really unnecessarily frustrated. would be great to get some official reaction here cycling..

This licencing stuff is the first time I feel really unnecessarily frustrated.

i feel that this copyprotection stuff is unneccesary since 1990, when i had three dongles on my atari workstation for three different programs and could not add another one because of no more free slots for dongles.

today everyone has a bunch of programs installed which he never paid for, and and the same time most people also paid for alot of stuff which still doesnt work (or stopped working for some reason)

the practice of "licensing" executables through copy protection is 50% fraud from one side and 50% fraud from the other side.

...did you ever found out what exactly in maxtoolbox could cause this?

Hi roman, thanks for taking the time to think about this.
Well yes. But with max 6 I was pretty happy actually. I had a dongle and for me that was a great solution (although of course dongles may not be the solution for the bigger picture)
The max tool box seems to be only part of the problem. I deactivated (or uninstalled, cant remember) it. I read somewhere that these issues might be related to externals and this was the only thing I had installed.
Also, deactivating it seemed to help for some time.

I havent tested this a lot and cannot say the following happens every time the same way but at the moment the situation looks to me like this:

I now suspect internet connection. My production PC is typically not connected to the internet (I do everything internet related on a linux machine [yay linux, make max for linux])
So I start my machine, start live, make a new device and it says trial mode. I close out of max and Live. Activate the internet connection, start live again, make a new device, cross my fingers and am lucky most of the time.
I say most of the time since with the toolbox activated, this internet connectivity thing did not seem to help. Also I am not sure if it helps now every time.
I somewhere read that max needs to connect to the cycling licensing servers once in a while, thats why I came to that idea in the first place. While i find this necessity extremely bad (i can't emphasize this enough), I could live with this being the case every two months or so (and I think thats the way it is intended)

Anyway, these are just assumptions, maybe it helps someone out there, maybe it helps cycling to figure out the problem.

@WOYTEG AFAIK iLok is still implemented/available for Max 7 even though it's not documented. If your main machine has no internet connection maybe you want to ask suport if they can still put you on an iLok dongle.