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Made a folder on my desktop called 'Max/MSP Building blocks' and been saving in there all morning until I realised it was completely unpopulated. Changed the name of folder and tried saving works fine, undo rename and try and save again and nope, won't let me save files in a folder called Max/msp? It's not even writing the files at all.

Not sure why, does anyone else wanna do this exact test on there machine? I'm on mac osx 10.8.5 and the newest Max.

Made a folder on my desktop called 'Max/MSP Building blocks' and been saving in there all morning until I realised it was completely unpopulated. Changed the name of folder and tried saving works fine, undo rename and try and save again and nope, won't let me save files in a folder called Max/msp? It's not even writing the files at all. 

Not sure why, does anyone else wanna do this exact test on there machine? I'm on mac osx 10.8.5 and the newest Max.


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if you're using the "/" symbol, as in "Max/MSP" I'm guessing you're not on Windows as this symbol is forbidden in user-named folders etc (is it forbidden in OSX?). Try "MaxMSP" or "Max-MSP"

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if you're using the "/" symbol, as in "Max/MSP" I'm guessing you're not on Windows as this symbol is forbidden in user-named folders etc (is it forbidden in OSX?). Try "MaxMSP" or "Max-MSP"

No problem! I'm guessing it is something to do with folders name (I hope) or I've really screwed something when messing with python in the terminal!

OS X is doing the same as Windows, it's looking for the folder "MSP Building blocks" inside of the folder "Max". You can see how this works if you create on your desktop a folder called "Max" and inside that folder create another called "MSP Building blocks". Now if you now try to save into "Max/MSP Building blocks" you will find you file in the folder "MSP Building blocks" instead.

Just lost my work due to folder name