{"id":330,"date":"2014-06-12T00:08:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T14:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x37v.com\/x37v\/?p=330"},"modified":"2016-01-21T09:45:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T22:45:54","slug":"mxo-max-external-folder-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x37v.com\/x37v\/max\/mxo-max-external-folder-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix .mxo Max externals displaying as a folder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Under Mavericks, I\u2019ve noticed that quite a number of Max .mxo objects show up in the Finder as folders. Max won\u2019t load these even if they\u2019re in your search path.<\/p>\n

Vade wrote about this back in 2006 \u2014\u00a0MXO externals showing up as Folders in Max\/MSP?<\/a> \u2014\u00a0and offered a solution.<\/p>\n

This fix is easy for the odd external, but cumbersome for a collection of objects. Here’s a Max patch to fix up individual\/multiple objects quickly.<\/p>\n

Require’s Jasch’s [fscopy], [strrchr], [strcut], and [strcat] objects.
\nAvailable from: http:\/\/www.jasch.ch\/dl\/default.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Problem: Max objects showing up as folders.
\nFix: Drag a .mxo folder into the dropfile object in the following patch.<\/p>\n