Florent Ghys

Is there a way to reset Max to its default settings?

I was messing around with the scheduler settings (queue throttle, scheduler interval...) and now everything looks and sound weird.

Should I re-instal Max? Or is there a document somewhere with that information? I can't find anything in the documentation.

Hello,
Is there a way to reset Max to its default settings?
I was messing around with the scheduler settings (queue throttle, scheduler interval...) and now everything looks and sound weird.
Should I re-instal Max? Or is there a document somewhere with that information? I can't find anything in the documentation.
Thanks
Florent


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In order to reset Max you have to delete the contents of

"Max 6 Preferences Files" inside the Roaming folder.

C:\Users\tada\AppData\Roaming\Cycling '74\Max 6 Preferences Files

(tip: maybe you have to activate show hidden folders)

Hi Florent
In order to reset Max you have to delete the contents of
 "Max 6 Preferences Files" inside the Roaming folder.

windows path is:
C:\Users\tada\AppData\Roaming\Cycling '74\Max 6 Preferences Files
(tip: maybe you have to activate show hidden folders)


Thank you Tada for your answer. Not sure I am going to reset everything right now though.

Could someone just please tell me what are the Max 6 default values for Poll Throttle, Queue Throttle and Redraw Queue Throttle please? I'd really appreciate.

Thank you Tada for your answer. Not sure I am going to reset everything right now though.
Could someone just please tell me what are the Max 6 default values for Poll Throttle, Queue Throttle and Redraw Queue Throttle please? I'd really appreciate.


I would really like this answer as well if someone knows.. somehow resetting is not enough. I just followed Ableton's advice and reinstalled Ableton entirely (Max 10 comes bundled). I also Reset Max4Live by deleting the Cycling74 folder entirely. Still, I'm noticing remnants from my past projects. Particularly, nothing can open and patchers crash Ableton every single time. When I right click Max, I see it's hung up with devices I already deleted long ago! Something is still being hosed up! WTF. Here's a picture showing the menu I get when I right click Max while frozen. Note all those devices are GONE from my computer because I deleted them even before I uninstalled everything.

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I would really like this answer as well if someone knows.. somehow resetting is not enough. I just followed Ableton's advice and reinstalled Ableton entirely (Max 10 comes bundled). I also Reset Max4Live by deleting the Cycling74 folder entirely. Still, I'm noticing remnants from my past projects. Particularly, nothing can open and patchers crash Ableton every single time. When I right click Max, I see it's hung up with devices I already deleted long ago! Something is still being hosed up! WTF. Here's a picture showing the menu I get when I right click Max while frozen. Note all those devices are GONE from my computer because I deleted them even before I uninstalled everything. 

https://docs.cycling74.com/max7/vignettes/messages_to_max

thx for pointing that out to me Source Audio, I didn't know that existed. Still not sure if I've found anything of value to fix whatever bug is going on, but that might be useful stuff in the future!

you could also try to rebuild the database by doing ;max db.reset

Thank you Florent I think this was a very good one to find! You guys have been super helpful

i made that in other times to know a bit more. Maybe others parameters are possible

hey all !
i made that in other times to know a bit more. Maybe others parameters are possible


Just for fun here is unlocked patcher from Max 4.6

One could open it under menu Options/Performance Options...

All inspectors in older max versions were just locked patchers,

and if one unlocked them, one could learn about all more or less

At that time there was no attrui or such, 

so one had to for example set flonum to display arrow, bold

and similar with flags messages, nowhwere documented...

Just for fun here is unlocked patcher from Max 4.6
One could open it under menu Options/Performance Options...

All inspectors in older max versions were just locked patchers,
and if one unlocked them, one could learn about all more or less
secret messages for any object.
At that time there was no attrui or such, 
so one had to for example set flonum to display arrow, bold
and similar with flags messages, nowhwere documented...


Reset Max to default settings