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Bottle Directory Change for CrossOver 14 Mac

Hello

I Hope Everyone can help me.

My Problem is how i can easily change the Directory for the Windows Bottles to other Path or Volume.

I Test it with this from the Support Library:

By default, Crossover Mac and Crossover Games Mac will look for bottles in the /Users/(username)/Library/Application Support/Crossover (Games)/Bottles directory. You can change where Crossover looks for this directory and have Crossover setup its bottles directory in a new location.

There are two methods. One quick way is to open Terminal and enter:
defaults write com.codeweavers.CrossOver BottleDir <path>

The <path> should be properly escaped/quoted. Dragging a folder in from the Finder is a good way to auto-type it.

But it doesn't work or i don't understand the right way for the Terminal Code.

Thx and Greetings from Germany

I'm having the same issue. I followed the terminal path in Codeweavers F.A.Q. but it does NOT change the bottle directory. I'm running OS X 10.10 Yosemite.

I change the .conf file. It's easy, quick and allows me to run several versions of CrossOver side by side (eg. in beta testing) without one touching the other. To do that, open
/Applications/CrossOver.app/Contents/SharedSupport/CrossOver/etc/CrossOver.conf
in a Text Editor like eg. TextWrangler or TextMate (2 editors where you can change content without changing either line endings or file type), add the following:

;;-----< [BottleDefaults] Section >-------------------------------------
;;    This section specifies settings to be used when creating a new
;; bottle.
;;----------------------------------------------------------------------
[BottleDefaults]
[EnvironmentVariables]
"CX_BOTTLE_PATH"="<path to the bottle directory>"

There might already be something in the file so do a search for bottledefaults first and add the missing parts after the comments.

Edit: forgot, when you want to have the bottles on a different disk, don't forget to add it as follows:


"CX_BOTTLE_PATH"="/Volumes/<disk name>/<path to the bottles>"

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