Ableton Live Quick Tips: How Backups Work

In this video tutorial in the series Ableton Live Quick Tips, I get into the details of the backup feature that was introduced in Live 10. This function is very useful for avoiding losing your work. Whether you have accidentally overwritten the Live Set after you’d made a mistake. Because once you save a Live Set the Undo history gets deleted. Or if Live crashes, a power outage happens or whatever, your work will be safe.

There are a few things you need to know though to ensure the backups will happen correctly. This, where the backups are saved, as well as how many, I explain and show in the video below.

Further tutorials to make sure you’re not losing any of your work:

Backing Up Ableton Live Projects

Ableton Live Tutorial: How to avoid missing samples

Let me know if you have anything to add or ask in the comments below.

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Madeleine Bloom

Madeleine Bloom is an Ableton Certified Trainer, musician, producer, multi-instrumentalist and singer from Berlin. She studied Electroacoustic Music at the Franz Liszt Conservatory. For a few years she worked as a technical support for Ableton gaining in-depth knowledge of Ableton Live that even most CTs don't ever get. In 2012 she started Sonic Bloom and has since helped countless people on all continents with their music productions and live performances.