Hi cats
Having trawled the forum and the web, I cannot find a Pd-l2ork specific walkthrough, for installing the PeRColate collection of externals. No matter where I place the unzipped folder, purr data cannot create the externals when I try to load them. Specifically, there is no ~ . . ./doc/5.reference/ folder in purr data, for the PeRColate objects' help files. I have tried manually adding a StartUp option, but this does not work. I have to admit that I'm not 100% fluent in MacOS (Sierra) file system.

Can anyone hold my hand and walk me through the process please?

thx

There is a doc/5.reference folder. On the OSX App bundle it is inside the bundle.

You can add files to the bundle if you want. However, it's easier to just throw the help files in the same directory where your percolate binaries are found. Then you can add that directory to the startup path. And everything will be found.

Also-- where did you download the percolate binaries from?

Hi
thanks for replying; I found a zip of the PeRColate bundle here: https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/572/pd-port-of-percolate/4

I can only find 2 'purr data' or 'L2ork' folders on my OS (as I said, I'm not very fluent in Sierra or MacOS):

Applications/Pd-l2ork (Show Package Contents) does not contain docs/5.reference.
/Library/Application Support contains CrashPad, Default and Shader cache folders?

I'm considering a remove/reinstall of purr data; is this overkill?

Oh, I see. No, I wouldn't try reinstalling just yet.

For OSX, you've got a user-local path ~/Library/Pd-l2ork which Purr Data will search by default for externals.

For example, let's assume you have a directory named "lib" that contains a compiled external named "foo.pd_darwin" (among others). Here's how to get a "foo" object to instantiate properly:

1. Copy the "lib" directory to ~/Library/Pd-l2ork. You should then have ~/Library/Pd-l2ork/lib.
2. Fire up Purr Data.
3. Create a new canvas.
4. In the new canvas, create a new object.
5. In the new object type "lib/foo"
6. Instantiate the new object. (E.g., click an empty part of the canvas.)

There are several other ways to do it (like using [declare]) but that's the easiest for now.

I use lib/foo as an example because the name of the directory in your screenshot has an unfriendly combination of capital and lowercase letters and I don't feel like trying to get them right.

Also I assume either that the binaries you want to load are directly inside that directory, or that you are typing the name of the relevant subdirs when trying to create your external
objects.

Hope that helps. Let me know if you still run into problems.