Hi,
We have deployed Ableton Live in a multi-user environment which in my case are Mac computer labs which all have Mac OS Catalina 10.15.6. We use Sassafras as the license server.
I am seeing a problem with the two files Library.cfg and Options.txt. Initially to set up the base installation I logged in as an administrator and installed and configured the Library.cfg and Options.txt files with the changes as per the support pages and changed my user name in the paths in both files to %%USERNAME%% as per https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/209775405-Centralized-administration-of-Live-in-a-multi-user-environment-with-Sassafras-
Both modified files were then relocated to /Library/Preferences/Ableton/Live 10.1/
Permissions on the files allow read by everyone
When a normal user logs in and starts Ableton for the first time, the copies of the files that are created in the users home i.e. in ~/Library/Preferences/Ableton/Live 10.1 still contain the %%USERNAME%% instead of the actual user name and lots of things are not right e.g. Location of User Library and Database Directory are not set.
Here is the top part of Library.cfg in /Library/Preferences/Ableton/Live 10.1/
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Ableton MajorVersion="5" MinorVersion="10.0_377" SchemaChangeCount="3" Creator="Ableton Live 10.1.6" Revision="04cf0aced295425d457145961b4fde60a4334f97">
<ContentLibrary>
<CoreSlice />
<LegacyLibrary />
<UserLibrary>
<LibraryProject Id="0">
<ProjectLocation />
<ProjectName Value="User Library" />
<DisplayName Value="/Users/%%USERNAME%%/Music/Ableton/User Library" />
<ProjectPath Value="/Users/%%USERNAME%%/Music/Ableton/" />
</LibraryProject>
</UserLibrary>
And here is Options.txt in /Library/Preferences/Ableton/Live 10.1/
-Licenseserver
-DefaultsBaseFolder=/private/tmp/AbletonData/%%USERNAME%%/
-DatabaseDirectory=/Users/%%USERNAME%%/Music/Ableton/Database/
-DontAskForAdminRights
-EventRecorder=Off
-_DisableAutoUpdates
-_DisableUsageData
My windows friend had a similar issue with %%USERNAME%% and solved it by changing the variable to %USERNAME% so I also tried that. To test I removed ~/Library/Preferences/Ableton but still no good. Similarly I tried $USER but again no luck
I can go into the user files in ~/Library/Preferences/Ableton/Live 10.1/ and change each occurrence of %%USERNAME%% in Library.cfg and Options.txt and things start working but clearly that isn't the way it's meant to work.
Am I doing this the right way? Can you suggest something to help me get it working