Being a beginner both with linux stuff and Pd maybe i miss something : everytime i'm trying to open a simple .pd file (with no external objects and few elements...) that i create previously (on OSX), the Pd console told me things like :

"error: ??áÄ#ué: no such object
error: ?ô56?e+??+?K??p$?9ÏÖåÎ`y?4ÚKpjr: no such object
error: ??Ã~FÑ#_: no such object
error: ?xoÑþ>2?~tÒ%?\}Q÷&?)R(w??)ÍqÄ×s???Û?rû?Rþ?_tÚL@?uÍîmm<?1În?Mq?jÇ<ÃyÌ????vÃ'(ÁÎr??84: no such object
error: å?:)á?T?^: no such object
error: ?îâ@+?'á?ci???: no such object
error: ú: no such object"

I don't understand what's the matter.

Can someone explain me what's wrong, and how could i open my old .pd files ?

Thanx,

A.

that's all reading as strange jibberish symbols on this computer.

do the pd help files load ok?

do you want to post one of your old patches here and we can see if the patch has some glitch?

what version of pd are you using, and how did you install it?

Did you create these objects on Mac OS X with Pd or a text editor? Would you mind uploading one of these files you created on your mac to the board here so I can peep the encoding? Thanks.

Eventually, it seems that it's only the pd files i've created on ubuntu (on my previous laptop) during a workshop that i can't open. Because yesterday i've tried to open a patch from this forum and it was working, and now i can open my old OSX patch... (pd help files load well too)

As bz say, it must be a character encoding issue because i can't manage to open this .pd file even with an ubuntu's text editor. Otherwise i can load these files from pd on OSX.

The pd version is 0.39.3-extended-rc5-debian-stable, from Hans homepage...

Here's a very simple file i can't open from ubuntu :

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/modulo.pd

$file modulo.pd
ISO-8859 text

No problems.

Is this a consistent or intermittent problem? Maybe corrupted media?

Maybe i should try to open them on OSX where it loads well, then save them, and eventually try to load them again with pd/ubuntu (!!!)...

With computer, the longest is sometimes the simplest, isn't it ?

must be something encoded in the file header that says it's binary. ..that would certainly explain the jibberish.

one weird thing though... i just tried to download your file again, and now ubuntu says it's a pure data file. ?!

Do you notice a difference if you open the .pd file by double clicking on it versus opening it by way of the File->Open menu from within Pd?