Hi All - After my previous post details I moved to a 2nd iMac to run a Test to see if I could understand why I am having these problems.

On the Test patch (please see attachment) parameters are still not being saved after closing & restarting Automatonism - but now when I call up the Module List (Esc button) the modules I click are not loading up either.

This is driving me crazy - I must be doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what.

Any help would really be appreciated. Many thanks.

I am using Pd-0.51-4 Vanilla, by the way.

@JackOats You could name your folder that contains a complete copy of Automatism "Drum Test 1" I suppose........ but the patch you have to open for Automatism to work is main.pd.........
Naming the folders that contain copies of Automatism will keep your projects separate....... a copy of the complete download should be made with nothing changed inside the folder. Then you open main.pd within that folder to start work. Do not use "save as" from the Pd menu........ only use the "save" button within main.pd.
You can see in your console that main.pd cannot be found. You cannot rename it to Drum Test 1 or anything other than "main"...........as then none of the state saving and links will work.
David.

@whale-av Ahh! Thanks very much, David. I'll try again using your guidelines.

Seems odd & not a very user friendly procedure, but I'll give it a go - I really do like Automatonism & Pd.

Automatonism was created before [savestate] object was added to puredata. Since, it's easier to save state of objects in a patch, without textfiles.
If you are interested, I made for my own purposes a fork from original Automatonism project, that saves states inside the main patch (that you can rename with an arbitrary name) . https://github.com/jyg/automatonism-reloaded

@jyg Hi. Thanks for the message. I have clicked on the included link - but I'm afraid I don't know how to:
Unzip it into your puredata - externals folder.
as suggested in Installation.
Sorry to be so dim - any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Hi,
Sorry, by "puredata - externals folder" , I meant the folder where all extensions objects to puredata are stored. Usually it is : home/<username>/Documents/Pd/externals

You should uncompress the zip archive there.
However, until I simplify the installation procedure, there is another step to follow . You may have to install another external : iemguts. There is a menu in Pd to do this.
Hope that helps

Hi jyg - Thanks very much for clearing that up. Will give it a go.