poesel Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 I've symlinked a mod folder into the Z folder but it seems that CMBN doesn't recognize the mods. Is there a reason why this doesn't work? Nelson:Z markus$ pwd /Applications/CM Battle for Normandy/CM Battle for Normandy.app/Contents/Resources/Data/Z Nelson:Z markus$ ln -s /Volumes/Jack/CM/Mods/HQS\ 2.6/ HQS Nelson:Z markus$ ls -la total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 markus staff 96 21 Jul 14:14 . drwxrwxr-x 25 501 staff 800 21 Jul 13:53 .. lrwxr-xr-x 1 markus staff 30 21 Jul 14:14 HQS -> /Volumes/Jack/CM/Mods/HQS 2.6/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicky Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Try putting the mod files directly into the Z folder instead of the aliases and they'll work, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 LOL I think he knows that. He is wondering why an OS file system feature would not work for mods. I'm not a Mac user so I have no idea but I would have thought that the application would not have any idea that files were symlinked and it would just work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicky Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Possibly inbuilt security(?) as all of the CM game files are enclosed within the app package - possibly an insurmountable barrier to linking to external aliases. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poesel Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 3 minutes ago, Wicky said: Possibly inbuilt security(?) as all of the CM game files are enclosed within the app package - possibly an insurmountable barrier to linking to external aliases. FB has external files and it works. CM itself can be started from anywhere in the file system. Why would BFC go to lengths to forbid symlinks? Why am I doing this? To save space. The laptop is a bit low on disk space and the mods work for 3-4 games. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicky Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 19 minutes ago, poesel said: Why would BFC go to lengths to forbid symlinks? Not BFC but Apple - due to it being inside of the package of the App at a guess. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger73 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 CMBN is a legacy design of sorts. It pre-dates M$osft's separation of data folder out from program folders. If aliases work for CMFI, CMRT, and CMFB but not CMBN then I would suspect it's likely because of something related to that "older" directory structure. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poesel Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 For once Microsoft is not at fault here. This is on MacOS. I will try with the other games. Maybe there is a difference. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Sym links or similar were very flaky on Windows. If I were to attempt this kind of thing on a Windows box I would expect it to not work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poesel Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 Nope, doesn't work in FB and that has external files. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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