Yup, I agree, it should be represented clearly somehow I'm open to suggestions. 
 Its been a long time policy in Pd-extended to avoid using the preferences. Its 
only recently been enforced.

.hc

On Feb 18, 2012, at 3:26 PM, András Murányi wrote:

> Ugh, I more and more tend to think that this info shall be directly 
> accessible from the affected dialog window. Many people may think their Pd is 
> just broken and they might just have no idea what to do about it.
> 
> Andras
> 
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 20:59, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Setting the paths and the libraries to load at start time via the preferences 
> is deprecated in Pd-extended 0.43.  The way to do this is:
> 
> * for the global path, add your libraries, etc. to the built-in user path:
> http://puredata.info/docs/faq/how-do-i-install-externals-and-help-files
> 
> * for a path local to a patch, use the new [path] object, following the 
> interface of [import] with the functionality of [declare -path]
> 
> If you really want to still set the paths via the preferences, you can edit 
> the preferences file, and Pd-extended will still load them from the 
> preferences file.
> 
> So in your case, Scott, it sounds like you are using a preferences file that 
> has your extra paths in it already. The Preferences interface in Pd-extended 
> 0.43 no longer saves the paths to the file, so it doesn't override your 
> previously saved extra paths.  Try renaming or deleting your preferences file.
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Feb 18, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Scott R. Looney wrote:
> 
>> well, just to add my experience i think i can set search paths correctly, 
>> but i would like to add that it seems to be quite difficult to have more 
>> than one instance of PD-extended 0.43 on the computer (trying mac OS 10.6.4 
>> w/ 32bit and 64bit builds) making it a bit challenging to check one build's 
>> operation/stability against another on the same computer. 
>> 
>> for example, the help browser shows all instances of installed objects on 
>> the computer, and then console complains about multiple versions of files 
>> existing. i've tried deleting the extra paths that show up to limit things, 
>> which works temporarily, but on the next startup it just reverts back to 
>> grabbing everything it can find again. it works the same in every .43 
>> pd-extended build i've tried so far (several version of both 32 and 64 bit 
>> builds in Dec/Jan). putting things on other drives doesn't work either - it 
>> will find those paths as well.
>> 
>> scott
>> 
>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Joson Android 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear List!
>> 
>> i love pd-extended-0.43 !! but i cannot add any search path in the 
>> prefferences. It will show my new settings right when i make changes but 
>> wont save anything. It prints "ripts/../extra/mapping: no such object" in 
>> the pd-window. It works in pd-extended-0.42.5 . Should there be a file where 
>> pd saves the path? Where is it?
>> Also, when i make changes in 0.42.5, 0.43 will know about them on next 
>> startup.
>> 
>> I use OSX10.6.7 and the latest autobuild of xi386 version of 0.43.1-extended.
>> 
>> Maybe it is the fault of chaotic me and chaotic computer, so i deleted all 
>> old versions of pd, but that didn't help...
>> 
>> Johnny
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