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Hi.

I have a baseline M1 Mac Mini. I used the free trial to try the only game I play Guildwars 2, and it all worked satisfactorily so I bought the license.

As the game is 60ish GB it takes up a chunk of my SSD, I already run most of my other programs off an external NVME, is it possible to somehow do the same with Crossover?

Thanks in advance for any and all assistance.

Hi Kenn,

I think you can do this with symlinks.
There is an entry in the FAQ section:
https://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/linux/faq/symlinkbottles

EDIT: to be more precise for macOS>
The Crossover folder is at /Users/<your-username>/Crossover (which itself is a symlink to /Users/<your-username>/Library/Application Support/CrossOver). The bottles will be in the subfolder "Bottles". Your NVME should be formatted with some macOS native filesystem like HPFS+ or APFS, otherwise you may get problems with permissions and such stuff. Move the bottle to the NVME target folder and do the following in a terminal:

ln -s <path-to-nvme-bottle> /Users/<your-username>/Crossover/Bottles/<bottlename>

Should be all what is needed.

Bye
Björn

You can use symlinks but there is another option as well.

You can open up the application using Right Click, show package contents.
Then you go to the following directory: Contents => SharedSupport => etc
Edit the file CrossOver.conf
and put in the following line in the section: [BottleDefaults]

[EnvironmentVariables]
"CX_BOTTLE_PATH"="/Volumes/yourdrive/your_directory/here"

Note: After I posted this, I searched the help files and here is the article about this:
https://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/mac/faq/cxofficemacbottlelocation