Cycling 74 » Topic: reading files from patches folder

reading files from patches folder

Hans Mittendorf — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:13:15 +0000

I created a few quicktime movies and put them into the folder ‘patches-media’. When I make a ‘read my.mov’ I have a message from the Max window ‘can’t find file my.mov
What goes wrong?

Re: reading files from patches folder

Hans Mittendorf — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:27:41 +0000

I found the problem. One has to restart Max when you had it open while putting files inside the folder.

Re: reading files from patches folder

Jean-Francois Charles — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:58:29 +0000

Yes.
Another idea, if you don’t want to mess up the “cycling74″ folders, is to store your movies in a folder of yours, and to add the path in the “Options -> File Preferences”.
J-F.

Re: reading files from patches folder

Hans Mittendorf — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:22:04 +0000

changing folder is actually what I want to do. How do we mark a different hard drive as a directory?

Re: reading files from patches folder

Hans Mittendorf — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:31:01 +0000

I would like to make a folder on a different hard drive. how do we set a directory for an external drive?

Re: reading files from patches folder

Jean-Francois Charles — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:31:48 +0000

One of the ways is to use a [dropfile] object. Drop the file (from any hard drive, and you get your path.
Or drop a folder and populate a umenu.
J-F.

Re: reading files from patches folder

seejayjames — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:47:54 +0000

Jean-Francois Charles wrote on Sat, 14 March 2009 14:31

One of the ways is to use a [dropfile] object. Drop the file (from any hard drive, and you get your path.
Or drop a folder and populate a umenu.
J-F.

The [thispatcher] path message may also be useful, especially if you’re using the umenu just fine on one machine, but then you copy your patch-plus-other-files to another computer, and then the files don’t load. The path message will ensure that the umenu is populated for the current location.