Hmm, yes, now it works as expected, whether I run it first from Downloads or 
not. Not sure what was going on, but thank you.

Kevin


> On Sep 26, 2018, at 10:46 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The quarantine bit is still set, for some reason. It should be disabled once 
> you allow running it and move it from Downloads. Try downloading another 
> copy, running it, then moving out of Downloads.
> 
> enohp ym morf tnes
> -----------
> Dan Wilcox
> danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/>
> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>
> 
> 
> On Sep 26, 2018, at 7:34 PM, Kevin Haywood <khayw...@ucsd.edu 
> <mailto:khayw...@ucsd.edu>> wrote:
> 
>> Pd isn’t in the Downloads folder, however. It’s where I’ve always kept my 
>> versions of Pd, in /Applications/Pd/
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sep 26, 2018, at 4:35 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomat...@gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:danomat...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Short answer: move the app out of the Downloads folder
>>> 
>>> Long answer:
>>> 
>>> In testing, I see this is happening if you run the app form the Downloads 
>>> folder. The OS keeps track of downloaded binaries and auto-sandboxes them, 
>>> apparently, by opening them within a temporary image somwhere. When Pd 
>>> starts up, sys_libdir is set using the current working directory and picks 
>>> up this temp location. sys_libdir is then used to generate the paths in the 
>>> About file. When you move the .app somewhere else, this sandboxing no 
>>> longer happens and the About paths look correct.
>>> 
>>>> On Sep 26, 2018, at 1:26 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomat...@gmail.com 
>>>> <mailto:danomat...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> That's probably app sandboxing: "An app distributed outside the Mac App 
>>>> Store runs from a randomized path when it is launched..."
>>>> 
>>>> from 
>>>> http://krypted.com/mac-security/app-translocation-services-os-x-10-12/ 
>>>> <http://krypted.com/mac-security/app-translocation-services-os-x-10-12/>
>>>> 
>>>> Funny that the strings loaded for the text file are changed, though.
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sep 26, 2018, at 12:00 PM, pd-dev-requ...@lists.iem.at 
>>>>> <mailto:pd-dev-requ...@lists.iem.at> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Just found the following very perplexing directories listed by Pd’s 
>>>>> “About Pd” window. I re-downloaded 0.48-2 and saw a similar listing. The 
>>>>> paths are accurate and can be navigated in the terminal. This appears to 
>>>>> be the result of macOS AppTranslocation, and probably a headache to deal 
>>>>> with, but I can’t imagine that this display is useful to users in its 
>>>>> current state:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Pd 0.49.0
>>>>> 
>>>>> A real-time graphical programming environment for live interactive
>>>>> computer music, Pd works on Linux, Apple macOS, and Microsoft Windows.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Pd is copyrighted, but is free for you to use for any reasonable purpose.
>>>>> See the file:
>>>>>     
>>>>> /private/var/folders/d7/m7ff94zn5tb7x7m7f_t4mkg40000gn/T/AppTranslocation/5F6B8661-189B-4614-B1FA-B54185D21D65/d/Pd-0.49-0.app/Contents/Resources/LICENSE.txt
>>>>> 
>>>>> Reference documentation for Pd lives in:
>>>>>    
>>>>> /private/var/folders/d7/m7ff94zn5tb7x7m7f_t4mkg40000gn/T/AppTranslocation/5F6B8661-189B-4614-B1FA-B54185D21D65/d/Pd-0.49-0.app/Contents/Resources/doc/1.manual/index.htm
>>>>> or online:
>>>>>    http://msp.ucsd.edu/Pd_documentation/ 
>>>>> <http://msp.ucsd.edu/Pd_documentation/>
>>>> --------
>>>> Dan Wilcox
>>>> @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika>
>>>> danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/>
>>>> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> --------
>>> Dan Wilcox
>>> @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika>
>>> danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/>
>>> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 

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