Jul 31, 2009 Can i get a virus using crossover mac? Hi I am looking to get an imac but need to use normal microsoft office (2007). I am looking at installing office 2007 via crossover, and I wanted to know if by doing so will I be opening up the computer to more risk by running office 2007 on crossover. Bottles are a unique feature of CrossOver that allow separate Windows environments (XP, Win7, etc.) to be packaged and self-contained with your favorite programs. Bottles are really useful, because they let you easily backup your software, and move it from machine to machine.
One quick way to move bottles to a non-default location and have CrossOver still find them is to first create a bottle in CrossOver, move the bottle to the new location, and then create a symbolic link in the ~/.cxoffice directory which points to the bottle's new location.
You can also control the list of directories where CrossOver looks for bottles by setting the CX_BOTTLE_PATH environment variable. By default this variable is set to ~/.cxoffice. To not have to set the modified path manually each time you run CrossOver, edit ~/.cxoffice/cxoffice.conf and add the following lines:
CrossOver will then first look for bottles in /extra/bottles and then in the standard location. Also note that CrossOver will create new bottles in the first writable directory present in the search path. So order is important.
Furthermore CrossOver will not move existing bottles to the new location. So you need to either keep the default bottle location in the list, or to move your existing bottles manually. A simple move command should do the trick:
If you installed CrossOver globally you may want this setting to have an effect on all users. To do so you would set it in the global configuration file, that is in /opt/cxoffice/etc/cxoffice.conf. You should also make sure each user gets his own bottle directory. Usually you would do so by using the USER environment variable like so:
Similarly, when you publish a bottle it is normally put in /opt/cxoffice/etc. However you can change this by setting the CX_MANAGED_BOTTLE_PATH environment variable, for instance by adding the following lines to /opt/cxoffice/etc/cxoffice.conf:
Note that this time we've put this setting in the global configuration file so it is accessible by all users. Also, as for CX_BOTTLE_PATH, new bottles will be placed in the first writable directory and existing bottles will not be moved around.
Change the Bottle Directory in Crossover Mac
By default, Crossover Mac and Crossover Games Mac will look for bottles in the
/Users/(username)/Library/Application Support/Crossover (Games)/Bottles directory. You can change where Crossover looks for this directory and have Crossover setup its bottles directory in a new location.
There are two methods. One quick way is to open Terminal and enter:
The <path> should be properly escaped/quoted. Dragging a folder in from the Finder is a good way to auto-type it.
To unset it, the command would be:
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To affect CrossOver Games, specify com.codeweavers.CrossOverGames instead of com.codeweavers.CrossOver.
There is also a more difficult and permanent way which lets you keep multiple versions of Crossover on your machine each with their own bottle directory. To change the bottle location go to your Applications folder, right-click Crossover and choose Show Package Contents then browse to
/Contents/Shared Support/Crossover/etc/CrossOver.conf
Open up CrossOver.conf with a text editor, and scroll down to [Bottle Defaults]. Under [Bottle Defaults] enter:
For example, if you wanted Crossover to create and look for bottles in a /Users/username/Bottles directory, and your username was “Bob”, you would enter:
If you wanted this rule to apply to all users on a given computer (Crossover Mac Pro, only), you would replace “Bob” with “${USER}”, like so:
To make Crossover look in more than one directory for available bottles, you can add another path after the first after a colon (:), like so:
The above setting would look for bottles in both a user’s “/Bottles” directory, as well as a user’s “Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles” directory.
Keep in mind that Crossover will only use the first given bottle directory path for bottle creation. As such, the above configuration would allow a user to see and access bottles in both directories, but any new bottles created would go into /Users/${USER}/Bottles
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