My boot drive is rather small so it would be great to store all my bottles on an external one. I tried symlinking bottle directories to ~/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles but CrossOver did not recognize them.
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My boot drive is rather small so it would be great to store all my bottles on an external one. I tried symlinking bottle directories to ~/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles but CrossOver did not recognize them.
Hi there,
First of all, please make sure that CrossOver recognizes your external drive: https://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/mac/mactutorial/usbtoserial2
Beyond that, you can see this tutorial for more information. It's written for Linux, where bottles are stored in ~/.cxoffice, so the paths won't be the same: https://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/linux/faq/symlinkbottles
Best,
Meredith
Symlinking the default bottle directory to an external drive works for me, here's what I did.
Move the Bottles directory across to the external drive, then run the below:
ln -s /Volumes/Samsung_T5/Bottles "/Users/<myusername>/Library/Application Support/Crossover/Bottles"
My external drive volume name is Samsung_T5, and obviously replace the myusername.
Hope that helps.
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