Steffen Juul wrote:

To quote Hans [1]: ... This one comes with Pd-extended and sets the default preferences. If someone creates, ~/Library/Preferences/org.puredata.pd.list, this one will be ignored.

hmmmm... i guess i didn't rtfm... don't remember exactly what i did, but deleting the prefs file now did the trick. that seems to mean it wasn't ignored, but anyway, it works now.

Frank Barknecht wrote:

Isn't it possible on OS-X to tweak a preference file once and for all and use it with each new Pd version like the ~/.pdrc and ~/.pdsettings files are kept on Linux?

Luke Iannini wrote:

The .pdrc works great on OS X, exactly as one would hope now with the embedded prefs: the embedded prefs take care of configuring Pd-Extended and my .pdrc takes care of adding the things I'm interested in.

thanks! .pdrc works for startup flags. for loading libs, you don't specify a path? the embedded prefs don't either. does that have to do with the fact that it's embedded (maybe i'm asking more than i need to know / will understand).

thanks for the patience!