danieleghisi

I've just received two patches as .clct files. I've come to use Max since Max5, so I've never even seen such extension.

Max 5 doesn't seem to open it; MaxMSP 4 Runtime crashes when I open one of them, and simply won't open the second one ("error -1 opening file").

Is .clct an extension for an old "closed" collective? Does anybody know how I can read these patches with any of the Max versions I have (5 or 6, or 4 runtime)?

I've just received two patches as .clct files. I've come to use Max since Max5, so I've never even seen such extension.
Max 5 doesn't seem to open it; MaxMSP 4 Runtime crashes when I open one of them, and simply won't open the second one ("error -1 opening file").

read-old-clct-files

any 4.x runtime should be able to open it.

maybe there is some weird file embedded into it, like a picture file which wont open on your current OS.

you also want to write to cycling directly. if you have a max5 or max6 license they can provide you a max 4 license as well.

you also want to write to cycling directly. if you have a max5 or max6 license they can provide you a max 4 license as well.
jan


and maybe also try to disable loadbang in open...

I am trying to load an old clct file created in Max 4.5 (on a G4 PPC) - I now am demoing Max 6 on OS 10.8.2 and cannot load file in any way.

4.5 cant be installed on intel based macs - so am I stuck? I need this file.

How can I convert the clct file into a format readable by Max 6 or Max Runtime 6?

4.5 cant be installed on intel based macs - so am I stuck? I need this file. 

You could open the .clct file in a text editor like TextWrangler. Then it is possible to copy that part which represent the patch. Best is to compare with how a .mxb or .pat file looks like as text. It is a bit of a puzzle, but doable.

Read old clct files?