Hi,

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since you probably haven't got the text editor vim installed on osx, use "pico":

I made the .pdrc file in my home directory. [/Users/sara/] I just added the lines which were given by Rob Canning, so it looks like this now:

-path /usr/local/lib/pd/pd_pidip_osx/abstractions
-path /usr/local/lib/pd/extra:/usr/local/lib/pd/pdp_pidip_osx/abstractions
-lib /usr/local/lib/pd/pdp_pidip_osx/pdp \

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how do you start up your pd? by typing pd into a terminal shell, or by double clicking on a pd.command shell script in finder? bc, if you use the second version, you can as well modify the pd.command file to load -lib's for you:

If i simply type pd in my terminal, then it says command not found. But if i doubleclick on pd.command in my applications, pd starts up; a terminal window appears which says:

/applications/Pd.command; exit Welcome to Darwin! [okaras:~]sara% /Applications/Pd.command; exit reading startup file: /Users/sara/.pdrc Audio channel 0 was unmuted by Portaudio!

open: No such file or directory No such file or directory open: No such file or directory No such file or directory open: No such file or directory No such file or directory open: No such file or directory No such file or directory open: No such file or directory No such file or directory open: No such file or directory No such file or directory open: No such file or directory No such file or directory open: No such file or directory No such file or directory

When i try to open a helpfile: help-pdp_canvas.pd it says:

RCNE SendEventToEventTarget (mous Up )failed, -9874 RCNE SendEventToEventTarget (mous Up )failed, -9874 open: /usr/local/lib/pd/doc/pidip/help-pdp_canvas.pd: Permission denied help-pdp_canvas.pd: Permission denied

The cursor keeps on going down in the terminal shell, without giving any output.

Sara