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<p>i agree that this is the biggest hurdle for newbies and as many can attest is sometimes a problem at demos/workshops with less experienced users </p>
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<p>Thanks!</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Pd-list <pd-list-bounces@lists.iem.at> on behalf of Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, July 29, 2017 7:55:35 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [PD] New users and external path struggles</font>
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<div dir="ltr">well, since this debate popped out, I can point to a deken issue on github here:
<a href="https://github.com/pure-data/deken/issues/156">https://github.com/pure-data/deken/issues/156</a> - I had opened it a few days ago, where I suggested a simple change that'd improve some of these issues.
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<div>All I ask is that deken consistently suggests "user specific" standard path at first, for all operating systems. As it already does, if the folder doesn't exist, it can create it for you. So then newbies don't need to learn "hacks" to make deken download
to a reasonable option out of the box, and it'd all work.
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<div>I get this might be too late in the game for the next release round the corner, and I'm cool with that. Also, I've shown that IOhannes has big and awesome plans for deken not in the far future... but anyway, I threw it on the table ;) </div>
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<div>cheers</div>
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</span>Yeah. But why is unhiding necessary in the first place? From what I<br>
understand, Deken suggests the first writable search path it finds, so<br>
the user usually doesn't need to do anything at all but let Deken<br>
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<div>Sorry, again on it... "the right place" as of now, is different for each OS, so we don't really have a "Default" considered to be "the right/best place" for most cases.<br>
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Moreover, besides the reasoning I gave that a visible folder is needed. For now, on Mac OS, if I want deken to download to the "user specific" folder, I need to do to this hidden secretive place and create the folder in the first place (no, it won't suggest
it and automatically create it for me).</div>
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<div>cheers</div>
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