Hi there.

Any clues how to find the save-game location for "Bard's Tale Trilogy" for hex editing on mac? (*inserted the game title, sorry i forgot when reposting as question)

Installation was smooth and it works fine out of of the box on my mac.

kind regards, Steve

Which game are you talking about? Different games put them in different places since there's no real standard for where they should go. Most common is in ~/Library/Application Support. Sometimes in ~/Library/Preferences, sometimes in Documents, there are others (I found at least one that was saving in the app folder itself). Most annoying is in ~/Library/Application Support/GOG.com/Galaxy/Applications, because those folders are just strings of numbers rather than names, so they're hard to figure out which games they're for (and yes games save there regardless of actually using Galaxy or not, fortunately this is rare).

I'd joke, but I'll actually give you a hand.

$HOME/Library/Application Support/

Start looking there, and that should help you get the rest of the way there.

cant find anything, could it be hidden?

First understand that the MacOS is simply a variant of FreeBSD, which is a Unix based system. As such we switch to unix commands.

I don't have a Mac to test this on, open a commandline
Not sure if it's needed, but put cd ~ (should go to home directory, in the event it drops you somewhere else by default)

then ls -lah (-a should show ALL files, including .hidden ones, -l gives details and -h is human readable file sizes).

I'd assume you are going to look for a .directory, a hidden one, it might be .GoG_Saves or .SaveGames or .shared or something. you can then explore those directories. In the explorer path or opening the explorer with said path should open hidden directories, where then you can explore and find said game saves.

Wouldn't know, don't own an expense account computer. Can't you just use direct input by clicking the address bar in the Finder?

You can just look in the Finder, you don't need to type commands. If the Library folder in your home folder is hidden, either show hidden files, or in the view options for your user folder check "show Library folder".

Your best bet is to go for a "snapshot" option.

1. Make a copy of your $HOME/Library/ directory using cp -R (from the console), calling it (say) $HOME/Library-old/, e.g:

cp -R $HOME/Library/* $HOME/Library-old/

2. Start up Bard's Tale (or whatever game you want to find the savefile for) and save a new game.

3. Use the diff command to compare your current Library with the Library-old folder, e.g:

diff -rq $HOME/Library/ $HOME/Library-old/

The results from this should show where the new savegame has gone, and hence where all your other savegames live.

4. Once done, don't forget to delete the Library-old directory:

rm -r $HOME/Library-old/

See this StackExchange article for other directory comparison tools.

You should be able to find them here, unless they've changed it since I last played (which was a few years ago):

> Library > Application Support > com.krome.BTTrilogy > saves

I can locate the library folder, but i cannot find the game there or any savegames.
thanks for the unix advice, i will try out those.

Of course the game won't be in a Library folder. I assume you're looking in the system Library folder, instead of the user Library folder. Or if you are looking in the user Library folder, you didn't look in Application Support.

Sorry, my mistake, as stated by eric5h5 there are multiple Library folders, you need to look in your *user* library folder.

The correct location is:

Macintosh HD > users > [username] > Library > Application Support > com.krome.BTTrilogy > saves

If you cannot see this Libary folder that is because it is hidden by default, so you may have to reveal it. The way to do this varies by OS, so you will need to google the specific method yourself.

Technically it's /Volumes/[disk name]/Users/[username]/Library/Application Support. A shortcut is ~/Library/Application Support. That's using the shell of course.

Also, you can do a search rather than manually poking through folders. The only thing with the Finder search is that it ignores library folders by default, so when doing a search you have to click "+" and select "system files" and "are included". I normally just use the "find" command in the shell though.

And if I ever find myself in this special hell, I'll start looking for an alternate file manager, it seems.

Probably shouldn't bother replying to your typically inane, ignorant, and off-topic posts, but the Finder search function has a great deal of flexibility, where there are dozens of parameters you can mix and match for stuff like dates, content within files, types of files, etc., and you can save that for use later, such as in the sidebar. It's just mildly annoying that there isn't a setting or something so that system folders are always included by default, but having to save a "system files included" search one time is way down on the list of things that would result in using an alternate file manager.