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Bottle Management

Hello,

im new to Crossover on my MAC and testing it in trial right now. I would like to ask more experienced users how to handle bottles.
Especially regarding Launchers (Battle.net, Steam and so on) and the containing games. Right now I have for example a Battle.net Bottle, a Steam Bottle etc. with games within.
When space gets low it is possible to archive bottle on external drives. My question is now:
In my current setup I would need to archive the bottle donating a few games, but I want to archive maybe 1-2 only.
Is it possible to setup one bottle with the battle.net launcher, and in others the games itself. And the launcher can access
the games in the other bottles and start them? And Steam the same?
Or do I need to install the launcher (Steam, Battle.net etc.) in every bottle with every single game?

I'm fairly new to CrossOver (and Wine in general), but it would appear (from the looks of how things are arranged in the filesystem) that each bottle is completely independent of each other.

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