2011/5/15 Brian Shepard <brian@studioii.com>
Greetings,

I have a student using Pd-extended on Ubuntu Linux, and I am using
PD-extended in Mac OSX. When he sends me a file created on his computer, I
can't open it, and get something like the following in the console:

error: #N: no such object
error: #X: no such object
error: #X: no such object
error: #X: no such object
error: #X: no such object
error: #X: no such object
error: #X: no such object
error: #X: no such object
error: #X: no such object
error: #X: no such object
error: #X: no such object
error: #X: no such object
error: #X: no such object
error: #X: no such object
error: #X: no such object
error: #X: no such object

When I send him patches, he can open them just fine. If he sends me a screen
grab of his patch, I can build it and it works just fine. The problem only
happens when I try to open the actual Pd file he sent. I've also tried
opening them with a text editor, and everything looks fine. If I then
copy/paste the text into a new text file and save it with the .pd suffix,
though, it still won't open. Is there some issue regarding transferring
between these two systems? Thanks for any help or advice.


I would compare the text file of your re-build to his original. Except for some XY-coordinates and order of objects/connections there shouldn't be a difference. I've never heard of such a problem and never had one, although I'm using Pd (vanilla) on both Ubuntu and OSX (and use patches cross-platform). I don't know if some different text encodings have been used in older versions. Maybe others know more about text encodings et cetera. If you want to be shure try to retype a small file instead of copy/paste. I once even typed a text file on a Windows computer and opened it later at home as a working pd-patch.

Funs
 
-- Brian



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