Patcher with Many Subpatchers - All Open with File Open
Max 9 is not saving or respecting the state of subpatchers on file open.
I have a large patcher with a lot of duplicated data flow, so I'm using subpatchers (saved as files). In the past when I saved the main patcher with the subpatchers closed, they remained closed on file open, but that isn't the case now.
I'm working on a 8x8 matrix of data, so I've got 8 sub patchers (external files) that have 8 subpatchers in them. There are other sub patchers in this, but essentially I'm getting 64 subpatchers opening on every file open. They sit underneath, but as soon as I try navigating around, I'm in a confusing sea of patchers.
I'm thinking this is a bug unless I'm missing some option or method to prevent this from happening.
The problem was incremental. At some point a single subpatcher always opened up with the main. Later a different one would. After that 8 of a particular one would, and most recently 64 are opening. I had the 8 inside of 1 replicated 8 times in the patcher for a while before they started opening on every file open.
Would love a fix or even a work around for the moment.
Thanks!
Been happening on various versions of 9.x. Currently happening on 9.1.2 on MacOS 15.7.3. Also observed on an older 9.x on MacOS 12.7.6 (Intel) and 3rd Mac I don't know the OS of.
You probably have some of your abstractions saved with some subpatcher windows opened. Open your abstractions directly in Max (not through your main patcher), make sure they don't have any subpatcher window opened, and save them.
But there might be something else going wrong here, not sure.
I'm actually going through them now to see if that makes a difference. Though it's worth noting that I have never manually opened all the subpatchers in any of the patchers.
So I did that for a few of the higher level patchers and it has stopped it! I'll see if it comes back.
Thanks!