So here's my issue.

I'm working on a patch and have been saving versions of it. On V3 things started becoming glitchy and I want to figure out what part of the patch causes that. So I made a return into V2 which has a lot less code and is working fine. I want to have then both opened and start adding the bits of code from V3 to V2 one at a time to isolate the culprit. But in order to do this I need PD not to process V3 at all because it obviously does not like that all my arrays are duplicated.

Is there a way to tell PD to open a patch but not process it (and I mean not only having DSP OFF for the patch but also ignore things like missing arrays and such) while still having another patch open and processed normally?

Thanks for helping!

You can run PD with the

-noaudio
-noloadbang   

flags.
Or load a patch as abstraction with [switch~ 0] in it.
But I doubt this would help here.
https://puredata.info/docs/faq/commandline

@tomatoKetchup said:

does not like that all my arrays are duplicated.

To avoid duplicates, rename your arrays with $0-arrayname

@lacuna said:

To avoid duplicates, rename your arrays with $0-arrayname

I've seen load of examples and people's patches using $0-xxxxx as array names, never quite understood if there was any reason why. Could you expand on what that does exactly or point me to some documentation explaining about this tag?

EDIT: nevermind, found it.

@tomatoKetchup $0 will just be rendered to a number > 1000.

[o] (bang)
|
[$0]
|
[print]

It will just be a different number for each patch, thus preventing collisions when used in names.

Clever.