I bet you have multiple patches with this name in your search paths. Does the Max window say anything about dupes?

I had this happen several times and I thought I was going crazy. I went back through the history of the file using Time Machine and found that the new version was there a few days before, then time machine stopped backing it up because the modify date became earlier than it had been. I never figured out how that could happen, but I doubt Max was to blame.

Who needs flying saucer conspiracies when this sort of thing is going on.

MH

I think I figured out how this is happening. If I save a file (leaving it open), then copy it to another computer, work on it, then copy it back to the same place it was (overwriting the old file), and open it, I will now have 2 versions of the patch open in Max. One of those patches is the new one, while the other is outdated. I then spend a few hours perfecting the newer patch, saving often like a good citizen, then decide to quit Max for the night. When I quit Max, it asks me if I want to save changes to the patch. Of course I say OK and that’s that, until I open the patch the next morning and realize that it has gone back to the version that I copied to the other computer back whenever.

When Max asked me about saving changes, it was focused on the old version of the patch left open after copying, not the new one I updated. Max let’s you open the same patch any number of times, and will save one over a newer one without any warning. It might make sense to only allow one instance of the same patch to be open at once.

Check to make sure you only have one copy of your patch open.