Hi Forum,

Today I was running 0.43.4-extended on Windows 7, and I messed up in a couple of ways. 0.43.4 has never loaded all of the libraries for me, bringing back loading errors on a lot of the big name libraries. I don't seem to use a lot of these libraries though, and have never tried to fix the problem. I started making a few abstractions of my own, but could not get pd to save any new paths in the preferences. I tried editing the pd-extended.bat script, and it loads all of the other libraries, but will not load my file with one patch in it. The batch file itself is super finicky: if you add my library to the end of all the -lib flags, it doesn't even put it in the command line. If I add it to the beginning, it cannot open any libraries. I then installed the program (I usually run the unziped, non-installed version), and have no persistence , but editing the batch file to include one more -lib or even -PA stops pd from loading anything. I thought maybe I'd need to run each of these things as Administrator, and when I do, it starts the audio engine and then cranks on one processor core and then never opens.

Most of the documentation about libraries on Windows is from 0.40.3

Does anyone know what's going on?

@evilsheep23 said:

but will not load my file with one patch in it.

Excuse me... "will not load my folder with one patch in it."

@evilsheep23 Hello there.... Yes, the paths can no longer be reliably updated from the preferences.
Sometimes it works, sometimes not. I have never tried to change pd's own batch file, especially as there is a pd.bat and a pd.com and a pd.exe and it is not always clear which one might be called by your patch.
The solution that I have found is to use a local batch file to start the patch..... something like this........

The Gem bits with paths not found are added by pd as it starts, and can be ignored. The first part sets which pd to use and the paths to anything that is not already automatically set in the preferences window...... and then the patch to open (Minx_Run.pd in this case). It also sets up the audio specifically for this patch, which can be very useful (you can have different setups for every patch, and if the audio hangs on a patch you just change the setup in the batch file).
Surprisingly, sometimes, these paths get automatically added to the preferences window, and the batch file is then no longer necessary!!!
David.

Great. Thanks, David.

Calling "pd.com" instead worked like a charm. Now I'll just need to get my favorite audio preferences in there.