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Noticing a frustrating phenomenon--maybe someone can enlighten me: I have several patches I made over the last year that all have dropfile objects in them. They were all saved to a certain folder on my desktop. In the process of house cleaning, I moved them to another folder. Now, in the older ones(pre v5.1.5), dropfile objects will not work--it will not allow me to drop a folder into it (I just get the "no-entry" circle/slash thingy) unless I move the patches back out to their original location. More recent patches however are fine--I can move them and dropfile works as expected. I made a few new patches with dropfile as a test and moved them around to different locations from where they were saved, and all is fine. If I make a new dropfile object in one of the "bad" patches in the "bad" location, the new dropfile works. I checked that both the new dropfile object and the old bad ones are set up the same.

Hi,
Noticing a frustrating phenomenon--maybe someone can enlighten me: I have several patches I made over the last year that all have dropfile objects in them. They were all saved to a certain folder on my desktop. In the process of house cleaning, I moved them to another folder. Now, in the older ones(pre v5.1.5), dropfile objects will not work--it will not allow me to drop a folder into it (I just get the "no-entry" circle/slash thingy) unless I move the patches back out to their original location. More recent patches however are fine--I can move them and dropfile works as expected. I made a few new patches with dropfile as a test and moved them around to different locations from where they were saved, and all is fine. If I make a new dropfile object in one of the "bad" patches in the "bad" location, the new dropfile works. I checked that both the new dropfile object and the old bad ones are set up the same.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Max 5.1.5, MacBookPro OS 10.6.4


dropfile-problem

Ahhh---well, I just discovered that if the folder name has a slash in it (for example "Max/MSP work" as I had called this particular one), the pre 5.1.5 dropfile objects do not work(though a new dropfile created in the same patch WILL work). I don't get it, but I'm glad it's sorted out!

Dropfile problem