By the way, I'll let you know that these files that we're looking for are sitting down here in this miscellaneous files folder. So I can click set folder and we can go into our exercise folder and choose that.
And by the way, if you want it to direct it to search in a specific folder, you can have it do that. Now I've got this narrowed a little bit to search in the exercise folder and I've done that because it's going to create a bit of a problem for us as we do this. And then we can ask Ableton to go search for this content so we can ask it to search in the folder of our choice, we can actually ask it to search in the project folder, and you can ask it to search in the library if you want. If this happens to you, you'll want to double-click on this status message to open up this MIDI missing files dialogue over here on the right-hand side of Ableton Live. And this includes not only audio loops that are out here on some clip slots, but it also can include things like the samples that are being used as part of this drum rack. It says: "the assets that are needed to actually use this project can't be found".
And so if a project folder gets moved, or the folder that had those audio files in it gets moved, and the relationship between those folders is changed, when you reopen a project folder like this one or a project file like 13_01, You're going to be confronted with the message like this. Now, this is a problem that occurs when you save a file without saving the audio and video assets that you're using into your actual project folder. So I've got exercise 1 from chapter 13 open, and I want to draw your attention down here to this status bar at the bottom that's telling me that media files are missing. Let's take a look at some of the tools included in Ableton Live that help with file management. File management is an important part of working with all audio and video applications.