Mac Boxer - Problem with setting up how I log into multiple clients at once

[kintamago]

Hey Guys,

Don't post here too often but I have run into a problem on my mac, and was looking to see if anyone could point me in the right direction.

I run WoW on two macs at the same time, on one machine I run my tank separately from the rest of the group and the healer/dps on the other machine. I have been, up until the cata content's release, been launching each instance of WoW using the hybrid approach which lets me run multiple clients through a script and keeps the cache separate. This is so I do not have to copy the entire WoW folder. However, this approach is not working for me at the moment. The details for how I have done this in the past are on:

http://www.wowpedia.org/World_of_War...nality_on_Macs

(found near the bottom of the page under: "Dual-Boxing" on one Mac)

I would like to go back to the hybrid approach (or something similar), as it allows me to run the game a bit more smoothly than with the copying of the entire WoW folder. So, any advice or fingers pointed in the right direction would be very much appreciated. Unfortunately, I am not the most knowledgeable of script/terminal users so any advice may have to be slightly dumbed down for me

If there is any additional information you think I have left out or might need to know just ask.

Thanks in advance.

[mikekim]

I have played around with dual boxing on my MBP and found that the easiest solution for dual boxing was just to copy the WOW application and give it a new name.

you can then run both at the same time (obviously you are stuck with the same config settings for screen size etc.) - you get around this by setting up symbolic links for the wtf folder ( essenially what is discussed in the hybrid approach that you have linked)

[kintamago]

Thanks for the reply mikekim I appreciate the response. The only problem I have is that I am quite literally a boob when it comes to writing symbolic links. I have read the info provided on Wowpedia a couple of times but work better if I have an actual example to work with. You know something with colorful pictures a video and a cute animated character that gleefully explains everything very slowly accompanied by some psychedelic Danny Elfman composition. I am that close to special needs when it comes to anything with Computers.

Joking aside, I have tried a few times to write symbolic links to the wtf folder like you mentioned, but have run into a brick wall each time I try. If you could provide an example that would be stellar, and point me in the right direction towards understanding this thing I call a Mac.

Cheers.

[shadewalker]

I think you want something like this....

If your original WoW folder is in your Applications folder and lets say you made a new folder in the Applications folder called "World of Warcraft 2" for your linked second copy.

ln -s /Applications/World\ of\ Warcraft/Data/ /Applications/World\ of\ Warcraft\ 2/Data

and

ln -s /Applications/World\ of\ Warcraft/WTF/ /Applications/World\ of\ Warcraft\ 2/WTF

make sure to include the backslashes as they are required to pass the spaces in the terminal.

Hope this helps

[kintamago]

Thanks shade,

Just to make sure, when I run those two commands in terminal I should already have a copy of the world of warcraft application in the folder, like mikekim pointed out, as well? So, in the file it would look like:

World of Warcraft 2
world of warcraft (copy)
Data folder (symlinked)
WTF (symlinked)

Getting closer to the answers, and thanks for the patience.

[shadewalker]

Yes that is correct.

The process would be

1. Make a new folder named "World of Warcraft 2" in the Applications folder
2. copy the wow application from /Applications/World of Warcraft to the folder you just created in step 1
3. run the 2 commands in the terminal

then you should have the files you need to run wow in the 2nd folder

you may also want to link your Interface (addons) folder

ln -s /Applications/World\ of\ Warcraft/Interface/ /Applications/World\ of\ Warcraft\ 2/Interface

[kintamago]

Thanks again shade.

i will give it a try when I get home later. If I hit any speedbumps, which I doubt i will, I will let you know how it goes. have a good one.

:-)

[kintamago]

Hey,

Got home just today and tried out your suggestions. Unfortunately, I have hit a speedbump. I tried out the suggestions provided by mikekim and shadewalker, but it only resulted in the world of warcraft icon in the new folder bouncing once and then nothing happened.

Now, the way I used to do it was with a file in the users/myname folder, I put a '___.sh' file. with some info. That was the way they did it in the wowpedia version. Should I add something similar to get this new way to function.

[shadewalker]

Try putting a copy of the WoW.mfil and Wow.tfil files from the original folder into the World of Warcaft 2 folder. That got the symlink version up and running on my computer

[shadewalker]

This is what my file structure looks like after i got it working.