How to share table files between patches?


#1

How can I save a table to a file in one patch and open it in another?
The problem I've been running into is that table/load and table/save seem to restrict the file locations to the directory of the patch; preventing me from accessing those tables in another project.

I'm building an instrument similar to the "Modulin" built by wintergatan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFfe4ZRQOH8) and I need to calibrate my ribbon; but I'd like to not have to do that every time I load a new project; instead have one patch dedicated to calibration (which is a 5 minute process to get the values for the calibration table) and then have all other patches read the table it created.

Screen Shot 2017-09-13 at 1.22.50 AM

This image shows an example of my problem. In the string, I never specified it to be in 0:/untitled/ but it put it there anyway. Is there a way to circumvent this, and have it access 0:/oijjioijojiouhio instead of 0:/untitled/oijjioijojiouhio?

(oijjioijojiouhio is a random keyboard-smash name; its not specifically important)


#2

Put a / in front
E.g.

/myfile.txt
This will put in root directory.


#3

Thank you! That worked :slight_smile: