Let's keep this on the list, it could be helpful to others. On Wednesday, Apr 7, 2004, at 19:39 America/New_York, chun lee wrote:
Hi there:
Thanks for your reply:)
What happened to #2? ;) Anyway, this depends on where and how you installed Pd. If you used the installer, then the externals are installed into /usr/local/lib/pd/extra.
Ya, #2 was deleted cause it sounded a bit silly..... Anyway, I figured
out the externals are all at '/usr/local/lib/pd/extra' but the folder is
hidden in the Finder. Is there a way that I can gain access to these folders
via the Finder? Or could I use the Terminal to copy the /extra folder to somewhere that I have access to and then change the file path in Pd? I
will give it a try...
There are two ways that I know to open hidden folders with the GUI.
First in the Open panel, you can just type it and hit enter. Or from
the Terminal.app, you can do: "open /usr/local/lib/pd/extra"
.hc
pdb is a great resource, but unfortunately, since it has to be
manually updated, it doesn't get updated much. So it shouldn't be taken as definitive. The easiest way to find out what objects are installed on your computer is to look in the above mentioned externals directory..hc
Ok, now I know.
Many thanks
Yours
CHUN
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