Because of an unfortunate coincidence The Whispered World is unable to save games on the Mac. The game's invisible checkpoints work fine, so you can resume a game from where you left off when you quit, but you can't have saved games with nice pictures and dates on them. Neither of the following options will affect any other games in that bottle so you don't need to set up a special bottle for The Whispered World.
Option 1 One fix for this is run a simple command in your Whispered World bottle. You can run this command while the game is running and the save game feature should start working right away.
Start by selecting "Run Command..." from the CrossOver Programs menu and select the bottle you have The Whispered World installed in. Now click on the little triangle labelled "Debug Options" and click on the "Open Shell" button that appears. A Terminal window will appear that will display a whole pile of cryptic text. Once the text stops scrolling by (it only takes a second or two) type in "ln -s /var" without the double quotes and press return. The first letter in that command is a small ell. Close these windows that you've opened up and start saving games in The Whispered World.
Option 2 A second method is just as simple as the first method, but it won't fix a running copy of The Whispered World. In that case, you would have to quit program and run it again for it to pick up the new setting, rather like rebooting Windows every time you install something.
Use the CrossOver menu item Programs -> Run Command... to run "regedit" in your Whispered World bottle. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment in the registry editor and you should see see listings for registry entries called "TEMP" and "TMP". Both of these entries will have the value "C:\users\crossover\Temp". Right click on the "Environment" folder and select New -> String Value. Set the name of this new entry to "TMPDIR" and set the value to be "C:\users\crossover\Temp" (i.e. the same as the other two entries). Now close the registry editor.
See the wiki for a detailed example of using the registry editor.
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