@whale-av Thanks for the info and the links! I'll have a better look at these if this becomes an issue - so far it's working fine, with the -path in the shortcut.

@ingox Thanks, but when I add -prefs, it doesn't actually open Pd at all.

@whale-av They seem to work only when I open Pd through the shortcut. Which is good enough for me (at least for now).

@ingox I've tried the [declare] but it doesn't seem to work, I just get the error message "unknown declaration" (and I've checked for any typos). But yes in theory it should work.

With add_path3 it records the entry 'test' in the second step but doesn't show up after restarting. In the registry it has added 'test' to path1 though.

@whale-av said:

-stdpath

Yes the read permissions are ok in the registry.

Hey, adding the -path "path to cyclone folder" to the shortcut did the trick! Now the objects in the cyclone folder are loading normally upon startup. Thanks so much for the advice! I just still wonder what caused the problem in the first place, and why Pd needs to be a sort of separately reminded of the externals... anyway I'm happy it works now.

@ingox yes, the 0.47-1 one.

@ingox That's the thing, it doesn't show anything in preferences > startup (just blank fields) even if it had saved my entries, which I have no way of knowing.

The only error message on startup I get is "WARNING: Font family 'DejaVu Sans Mono' not found, using default (courier)".

@whale-av Yes they are, in all of the registry locations. Like 'loadlib1' assigned to cyclone and 'path1' to the correct path extra/cyclone.

@ingox Yes, this works! And if I insert the [cyclone/...] in all of the cyclone objects, they all load perfectly. Thanks! This seems to be the solution at least for now, just to get things working.

@ingox ah ok, well I've done that too but it doesn't save it. hmm...

@whale-av Thanks for looking these up! I went through all of them and I have full control of everything.

I removed the pd and installed it again, and this time it let me install the cyclone library (through 'find externals') into the pd/extra folder as I did the first time. But the problem still persists: it doesn't load the library, and it doesn't remember the startup settings... and I've checked that I have a full control of all pd folders, both as local user and administrator.

Btw. when you specify a library to be loaded in the preferences > startup dialog, is it enough to just write the name of the library or do you have to insert the full path?

@whale-av Thanks, David!

Great to hear that the startup settings should be permanent. My Vanilla has always been like this, and I recall some previous versions of extended didn't actually save those, that's why I thought it was the norm. (well curiously, now it does remember my audio settings, before I had to select my external audio card each time... I try not to get 'paranoid' but it's behaving in mysterious ways today indeed).

I thought about installing the pd again, but I read someone had already tried that without any success. Let's see...

@whale-av Yes there was a Windows update actually. I just wonder how that could have caused this...

Yes I tried to reinstall just to see if that could fix the problem. I deleted the library now and changed the attributes, yet the same error message appears when trying to reinstall.

The only way I can get the library loaded is by having it installed in the same folder as my current project, then manually specifying the path in the preferences each time I open pd (I can't understand why it can't save these startup settings, would make life easier). When the library was inside the pd extras folder, if I first opened any patch there, then all my own subsequent patches would load the library normally. But certainly not the practical way to go.

@whale-av Hi, thanks David, but no I haven't deleted any folders since my last successful PD session last night, and I still have my administrator rights re other programs. I've also tried using things like [declare] to import the library manually but no success. I'm rather perplexed by this, I've been using the extended version for years without any problems (though running on XP)...I suspect the issue is with the current Windows, not PD.

Hi!

Could anyone tell me how to get the cyclone library working again on PD Vanilla/Windows 10? I've been using the Vanilla version happily with cyclone working for months now - yet suddenly today the cyclone library stopped loading. When I first started with Vanilla, I installed the library simply through 'find externals' and it was up and running, but now it keeps saying that "no writeable directory found". I mean...what on earth could have happened between last night and now?

Thanks for any help! I've searched through previous posts here on the same topic but none of the solutions seems very clear to me (I'm not too versed with the technical side of PD yet).