Dear all,
Is there anyone who can explain to me why in my Windows 10 - PD 54-1 version I can't save my .pdsettings file into a folder, and I obtain the message "Permission denied" in the PD consolle ceindow?

thank you for your help,
best
stefano

@stefano_zorzanello sounds like something to do with permissions. Can you open pd as administrator?

Yes! I've just opened PD as administrator and I finally succeeded in saving the preferences. Super thanks! So, if now I were to install PD 56, could I load the saved pref file and have all the same preferences, including externals path?
best
stefano

@stefano_zorzanello Yes...... the settings are saved to the registry, and so read from the same place when opening all 64-bit versions of Pd.

Caveat.... I use the "portable" zip downloads of Pd so that I have them all available at any time.
So....... if I have installed externals to version 54.1 I still have that version on my computer and the paths are found when I open version 56.
If I then use Deken to install more externals while 56 is open then they will be written to the folders containing version 56 and new paths will need to be set.

If you "install" version 56 it will overwrite 54.1, but the externals will not be overwritten, so the paths will stay the same.
David.

thank you David for your clear and detailed answer, and for the caveat considerations.
Best regards
Stefano

and thank you RT-Chris, of course!!! I really appreciate your help