@whale-av Thanks for the info and the links! I'll have a better look at these if this becomes an issue - so far it's working fine, with the -path in the shortcut.

@ingox Thanks, but when I add -prefs, it doesn't actually open Pd at all.

@whale-av They seem to work only when I open Pd through the shortcut. Which is good enough for me (at least for now).

@ingox I've tried the [declare] but it doesn't seem to work, I just get the error message "unknown declaration" (and I've checked for any typos). But yes in theory it should work.

With add_path3 it records the entry 'test' in the second step but doesn't show up after restarting. In the registry it has added 'test' to path1 though.

@whale-av said:

-stdpath

Yes the read permissions are ok in the registry.

Hey, adding the -path "path to cyclone folder" to the shortcut did the trick! Now the objects in the cyclone folder are loading normally upon startup. Thanks so much for the advice! I just still wonder what caused the problem in the first place, and why Pd needs to be a sort of separately reminded of the externals... anyway I'm happy it works now.

@ingox yes, the 0.47-1 one.

@ingox That's the thing, it doesn't show anything in preferences > startup (just blank fields) even if it had saved my entries, which I have no way of knowing.

The only error message on startup I get is "WARNING: Font family 'DejaVu Sans Mono' not found, using default (courier)".

@whale-av Yes they are, in all of the registry locations. Like 'loadlib1' assigned to cyclone and 'path1' to the correct path extra/cyclone.

@ingox Yes, this works! And if I insert the [cyclone/...] in all of the cyclone objects, they all load perfectly. Thanks! This seems to be the solution at least for now, just to get things working.

@ingox ah ok, well I've done that too but it doesn't save it. hmm...