Hi everyone, I've been getting error messages in the console when accessing the help browser. Apart from the message itself, there doesn't seem to be any problem. I just don't understand what the message is about:

WARNING: duplicate 'helmholtz~' library found!
'/Users/t1/Library/Pd/helmholtz~' is active
'/Users/t1/Library/Pd/helmholtz~' is duplicate
WARNING: duplicate 'honk' library found!
'/Users/t1/Library/Pd/honk' is active
'/Users/t1/Library/Pd/honk' is duplicate

and so on...

So, I'm on a mac and I've installed my externals and libraries where this says I should:
http://puredata.info/docs/faq/how-do-i-install-externals-and-help-files

And I wouldn't be so puzzled if the two paths followed by "is active" and "is duplicate" weren't actually one and the same.

Google came up with this:
http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2012-02/094871.html;

Hans-Christoph Steiner's response to that email, respectively, the part I'm talking about, was
"I'm no longer supporting setting the path and startup libs via the
preferences. Anyone else is welcome to take that on. "

... and I don't understand the connection, since, as far as I remember, I didn't fiddle around with the preferences.

Is this problem worthy of anyone's attention at all, or should I just ignore these messages altogether?

You may still have the old 0.42 preferences file, which may be doubling up the default paths. Try deleting ~/Library/Preferences/org.puredata.pd.plist if it's there.

Thanks, that helped. I really appreciate your taking the time to answer even questions as close to pointlessness as this one...

Hi friends,
I know this an old thread but I have an identical seeming situation and this solution is not working for me.
Has anyone had the warning: duplicate "..." library found on Mac and NOT had deleting the preference file solve problem?
The warning appears when I open the Browser. Two copies of cyclone are shown in the Browser (one with a (2) after it).
I put the cyclone folder in Users/Library/Pd
and added it's path in the path section of preferences.

Please excuse me if this a dumb question; I'm afraid I will alwys be a noob when it comes to loading Pd externals!

K

In case it is relevant, I noticed that there is a / after the first cyclone but not the second listed in the warning:
WARNING: duplicate 'cyclone' library found!
'/Users/Kurt/Library/Pd/cyclone/' is active
'/Users/Kurt/Library/Pd/cyclone' is duplicate