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Painted Lady wrote:See if this helps:

Open Finder
On the bar at the top select "GO"
Press and hold down the Option key on your keyboard at that time
This should show the the hidden system Library
Press on the Library option
Open the Application Support folder
Open the Basilisk Games folder
On my system there is a Book 2 Saved Games folder showing

Does this work for you?

It doesn't for me, but then again I'm still OS 10.6 and don't have the hidden Library problem in the first place.

But my point still stands - someone should let BW know about this, because I'm pretty sure that he doesn't want the Book II Saved Folder ending up in a folder that's hidden this way in certain versions of the Mac OS...

Painted Lady wrote:See if this helps:

Open Finder
On the bar at the top select "GO"
Press and hold down the Option key on your keyboard at that time
This should show the the hidden system Library
Press on the Library option
Open the Application Support folder
Open the Basilisk Games folder
On my system there is a Book 2 Saved Games folder showing

Does this work for you?

I opened and did what you said but as soon as you open the library folder, there is no application support folder anywhere. Im using 10.7.2 osx.

This from the Spiderweb Games for problems finding saved games:

If you run it on 10.7 Lion, all of your settings and saved games will be stored in a special operating system sandbox. Your settings and saved games will not be visible. The sandbox is in ~Library/Containers/com.spiderwebsoftware.Avernum.

There may be a similar folder for Basilisk games.

deathknight1728 wrote:
I opened and did what you said but as soon as you open the library folder, there is no application support folder anywhere. Im using 10.7.2 osx.

That explains that - I'm using 10.8.2.
Have you tried Randomizer's tip yet?

Okay, I'm running 10.7.5. Just figured it out after a quick look at Apple's support site. Exactly as Painted Lady says, open the Finder window. Hold down the Option key and select GO from the menu bar at the top of the screen (not the top of the window). You will see a Library selection with no quick-key. That will take you to the hidden Library folder, wherein you can select Application Support\Basilisk Games\Book 2 Saved Games...

This happened because Apple changed the way it handles a lot of these libraries to create its protected memory spaces and try to avoid third-party stuff crashing the whole system. It's not a choice BW made specifically. He simply followed the developer instructions from Apple (necessary if you want to be in the Apple App Store, I presume).

Kreador Freeaxe wrote:Okay, I'm running 10.7.5. Just figured it out after a quick look at Apple's support site. Exactly as Painted Lady says, open the Finder window. Hold down the Option key and select GO from the menu bar at the top of the screen (not the top of the window). You will see a Library selection with no quick-key. That will take you to the hidden Library folder, wherein you can select Application Support\Basilisk Games\Book 2 Saved Games...

This happened because Apple changed the way it handles a lot of these libraries to create its protected memory spaces and try to avoid third-party stuff crashing the whole system. It's not a choice BW made specifically. He simply followed the developer instructions from Apple (necessary if you want to be in the Apple App Store, I presume).

For Book III then, BW might want to slightly "enhance" the Mac edition then, so that, for example, CONTROL-Clicking the Saved Games file path at the bottom of the main menu immediately opens up that folder in the finder (at least, in Windowed mode).

Because, otherwise, it sounds like this change in the way Apple handles the Library in Mac OX 10.7 and later is going to cause a lot of people headaches...

This should be foolproof:

1. Open the Terminal application. It's under Applications/Utilities.

2. Type and press enter.

3. Wait a while. At some point, a line like this will appear: That's for me on Linux, so yours will be in a different place.

SpottedShroom wrote:This should be foolproof:

1. Open the Terminal application. It's under Applications/Utilities.

2. Type

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find / -name eb2.cfg 2>/dev/null

and press enter.

3. Wait a while. At some point, a line like this will appear:

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/home/user/.basilisk_games/book2_saved_games/eb2.cfg

That's for me on Linux, so yours will be in a different place.

Yeah it doesnt work because everything in the folder that you are trying to locate is hidden even the eb2.cfg. When I list that eb2.cfg it comes up under the main folder and not the saves one. The same goes for basilisk games and book 2 saved games.

It might not work - maybe on Mac the eb2.cfg doesn't live in the saved games folder? - but that's not because of hidden files. OS X (and UNIX in general) implements "hidden files" by prefixing the name with a dot. The find utility is perfectly capable of dealing with such files. Maybe try looking for "savename" or "5050.map" instead?

On the Main Screen, click the copyright info, It then changes to your saved game path. If your Library is hidden, at the finder level select Go to folder (shift apple G) and type in the path. Hope that helps.