Re: [PD] Writing file to folder on OSX

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Si Mills smills@rootsix.net wrote:

HI

I can't seem to write a file into a folder using [writesf~]

So when I click the [open -bytes 3 /audio/foo.wav( message, presumably it should create a folder called "audio" with the file "foo.wav" in it?

Nope, the folder has to be there first. Creating a file that has a non-existent path does NOT create the path.

.....But it doesn't do anything.

Just as it should. There is no folder in which to write the file.

Just doing [open -bytes 3 foo.wav( works fine and creates "foo.wav" in the same directory as the patch.

This is normal, too.

AM I misunderstanding this, or is it a bug?

While you can use some of the shell externals for Pd to create folders, Pd itself won't create them.

I am not really sure about writesf~, but you should be getting an error message back, because the file it is trying to work with does not exist, because the full path does not exist.

Mike

(on OS x 10.5.1, Pd 0.40.3-extended)

thanks S

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