Aliases are needed one way or another, cause you can only browse to a folder, when you're adding a path to Pd's preferences...
This is not an issue in windows (not sure about linux...)
and I think is easier to hit a shortcut that goes to ~/Library ;) (command
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2017-04-07 18:01 GMT-03:00 me.grimm megrimm@gmail.com:
- the folder is not created for you, you have to pre create it
(requiring previous knowledge
if deken isn't going to automate this on osx maybe just simple copy and paste in a terminal (or?) for new users:
$ mkdir ~/Library/Pd && mkdir ~/Documents/Pd && ln -s ~/Library/Pd ~/Documents/Pd/libraries
at least in a workshop/class setting maybe
might be easier than finder -> go -> go to settings -> ~/Libraries and making Pd directory THEN creating alias to wherever
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On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres porres@gmail.com wrote:
2017-04-06 15:36 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Torres Porres porres@gmail.com:
We don't have such a user friendly manager like that with deken (far from it)
been saying it before, but in any case, by that, I mean:
- the folder is not created for you, you have to pre create it
(requiring previous knowledge) 2) you can't navigate to that folder in Pd Vanilla to add it to your preferences path (and Pd only add paths that you can navigate to). So you need to create an alias for that invisible folder to your desktop, then use it to find the path
this is all for mac os, of course
ways around that would be to auto create the folder and change it to a visible and findable path (like ~/Documents) or redesign pd's interface (which I feel is unlikelier to expect). But a visible folder in Documents will always be simpler, cause it's not always the case that you will download libraries from the library manager (deken). So now that I thought more about it, even if you redesign Pd's interface, this will still be an issue for mac users.
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