<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Recurrent ascension to PD (-050-2) from all-around PD.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I had mentioned in Pd/Preferences/Path… the location of Pd externals where I wanted them to be - that is away from the Pd application package - would its “/Resources/extras” be conserved with installed libraries - when installing a new Pd version ?</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">Anyway using Help/Find Externals, I was obliged to direct myself the install to where I wanted it to be, because the location I found mentioned was not prepared to be the one I had mentioned in the Pd Prefs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So the install went fine.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anyway, going back to the “Pd search path [why not “paths"...] for objects, help, fonts, and other files” of Pd/Preferences/Path… I never keep effectives indications because they are not remembered and/or are overwritten.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Example :</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Commencing downloading of:</div><div class=""><a href="http://puredata.info/Members/porres/software/else/1.0beta27/else[v1.0beta27" class="">http://puredata.info/Members/porres/software/else/1.0beta27/else[v1.0beta27</a>](Darwin-amd64-32).dek</div><div class="">Into /Applications/PURE-DATA/Pd/externals...</div><div class="">[deken]: Successfully unzipped else[v1.0beta27](Darwin-amd64-32).dek into /Applications/PURE-DATA/Pd/externals.</div><div class="">[deken]: Added else to search paths</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Pd-050-2 lay beside Pd/externals inside this Applications/PURE-DATA.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">May I ask where deken added "/Applications/PURE-DATA/Pd/externals” to search paths ? (The “DISABLED” was mine, empty External Install Directory was mine (before was application-package “extras”), and Pd search was /Applications/PURE-DATA/Pd/externals but went empty Preferences/Path… is no use ?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks a lot for this ride,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="0510E692-F625-4D57-A1E8-6A693273AA6C" width="448" height="478" src="cid:9BA6E474-FC1A-417A-AC9E-DB05F0708541@home" class=""></div></body></html>