johno

I've not really used abstractions before and I'm having trouble with it. I created my patch - changed the extension to .mxo and dropped it into the max externals folder. It worked yesterday when I used it in a bigger patch but when I opened up the big patch today its not being recognised as an object. I've done a good bit of searching around the forum but can't find a post about it. I know I could do it with a poly~ but I still want to know how to just make plain old abstractions. 

I've not really used abstractions before and I'm having trouble with it. I created my patch - changed the extension to .mxo and dropped it into the max externals folder. It worked yesterday when I used it in a bigger patch but when I opened up the big patch today its not being recognised as an object. I've done a good bit of searching around the forum but can't find a post about it. I know I could do it with a poly~ but I still want to know how to just make plain old abstractions. 
Cheers for the help guys

dealing-with-abstractions

There's no need to change the extension. Max will load mxo and maxpat in a similar fashion. I usually don't keep those things in the max folder. I don't know if the installer of a new version of max thrashes the folder structure inside the max folder or keeps it intact, but I don't want to find out the hard way. It is possible to add a folder to the search prefs. This folder could be outside the max folder and contain all your abstractions and other stuff that needs to be found.

Cheers man, Got it sorted easily - I knew it was something obvious I wasn't doing

Dealing with abstractions