jigen dot

im trying to set the path in the file preferences to

an external hard drive without luck.it used to work

fine on a PC but it wont on mac os 10.3.9.the hard

im reiceving this message: error -43 creating path

did anyone came accross the same problem? or have a

i googled and went to the forum but did not found a

im trying to set the path in the file preferences to
an external hard drive without luck.it used to work
fine on a PC but it wont on mac os 10.3.9.the hard
drive is a lacie one.

did anyone came accross the same problem? or have a
clue why?

i googled and went to the forum but did not found a
solution.

file-preference-error

Are there any apostrophes or slashes or other "unusual" characters in 

I've been frustrated on several occasions because I've had to remove 

apostophes from folder names in order to get something to work in Max.

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Are there any apostrophes or slashes or other "unusual" characters in 
the path name?

I've been frustrated on several occasions because I've had to remove 
apostophes from folder names in order to get something to work in Max.

nothing unusual the path is brain/my docs/maxmsp

naming your folder mydocs should work indeed. or you can add quote to your path "mypath/my docs/etc" in Max prefs. That said, Max add quotes automaticaly, here. Strange if it doesn't on your computer.

followed your advice and now i get a different number

followed your advice and now i get a different number
in the error message

I created for test a folder named 'patch' here :

Now, if I type this path in the Max pref window, I get :

"error: filepath: 30:/Users/julien/testpath/my: error -43 creating path"

Same result as you, isn't it ? Did you type your path, or did you choose your folder with the Choose button ? Max needs double quotes because of the blank space in your folder name. But with the Choose button, Max should add double quotes. At least it does here.

Sorry for mostly repeating my previous message. Just trying to be sure I understand you correctly.

Just to sum up.
I created for test a folder named 'patch' here :

   30:/Users/julien/testpath/my docs/patch/

   "error: filepath: 30:/Users/julien/testpath/my: error -43 creating path"

Quotes from posts are not added to messages or did I make something 

wrong ? mm... This new forum seems too much complicated for me... ;-)

"error: filepath: 30:/Users/julien/testpath/my: error -43 

Same result as you, isn't it ? Did you type your path, or did you 

choose your folder with the Choose button ? Max needs double quotes 

because of the blank space in your folder name. But with the Choose 

button, Max should add double quotes. At least it does here.

Sorry for mostly repeating my previous message. Just trying to be 

Quotes from posts are not added to messages or did I make something  
wrong ? mm... This new forum seems too much complicated for me... ;-)

    30:/Users/julien/testpath/my docs/patch/

    "error: filepath: 30:/Users/julien/testpath/my: error -43  
creating path"

Same result as you, isn't it ? Did you type your path, or did you  
choose your folder with the Choose button ? Max needs double quotes  
because of the blank space in your folder name. But with the Choose  
button, Max should add double quotes. At least it does here.

Sorry for mostly repeating my previous message. Just trying to be  
sure I understand you correctly.

for some reasons everything is fine today. however the

let me explain. yesterday i was choosing the hard

drive using the button choose and i was getting the

same error you mentioned in your reply. than i added

quotes as you said and the error changed into -1

instead of -43. this morning i was having the same

problem so i plugged the hard drive to the pc to see

if it works on a different platform. it did work fine

on pc. i went back on mac again and it worked for some

unknown reasons. but if i add quotes i get the same

for some reasons everything is fine today. however the
MAX did not like the quotation marks.

let me explain. yesterday i was choosing the hard
drive using the button choose and i was getting the
same error you mentioned in your reply. than i added
quotes as you said and the error changed into -1
instead of -43. this morning i was having the same
problem so i plugged the hard drive to the pc to see
if it works on a different platform. it did work fine
on pc. i went back on mac again and it worked for some
unknown reasons. but if i add quotes i get the same
error message(...-1...).

file preference error