From 376ca876d17312183750145d9db135edd9adc399 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico@vt.edu>
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 16:16:26 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] *disabled auto-creation of the externals folder (legacy
 behavior that is no longer desired)

---
 pd/src/pd.tk | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pd/src/pd.tk b/pd/src/pd.tk
index b1b4bcb81..c9d47e2eb 100644
--- a/pd/src/pd.tk
+++ b/pd/src/pd.tk
@@ -300,12 +300,12 @@ proc bgerror {message} {
 }     
 
 # make sure the user folder for installing externals exists
-catch {
-	if { ! [file exists $externalsdir] && [file exists [file dirname $externalsdir]] } {
-		puts stderr "Creating folder for user-installed externals: \n\t$externalsdir"
-		file mkdir $externalsdir
-	}
-}
+#catch {
+#	if { ! [file exists $externalsdir] && [file exists [file dirname $externalsdir]] } {
+#		puts stderr "Creating folder for user-installed externals: \n\t$externalsdir"
+#		file mkdir $externalsdir
+#	}
+#}
 
 
 # namespace for general-purpose functions
-- 
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