Editing in Leopard Directory... huh?

Eric_L · 04-26-2008, 08:00 AM

I've been trying to get the mouse to behave with an old game I've installed in my iMac. Fusion support has been pretty good, but their last reply has made me feel like the n00b that I am. Here it is;

Quote:

To customize the virtual machine's mouse settings for playing games, use TextEdit to make the following changes while the virtual machine is powered off:

In the virtual machine directory, add the following line to the end of the virtual machine's configuration (.vmx) file:
vmmouse.present = "FALSE"
In your home directory, add the following line to the end of the file ~/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/preferences:
pref.motionUngrab = "FALSE"

Sounds easy enough... if you know your way around. All I can find is the Fusion launch icon in the applications folder in my Macintosh HD.

So how do I find the Fusion directory? Where is it?

Thanks for the help and not picking on me too hard.

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JohnRice · 04-26-2008, 08:51 AM

I don't know where it is, but it sounds like if you search for ".vmx" you should get something. To search, in Finder, hit command-f.

Eric_L · 04-26-2008, 12:11 PM

Thanks, but the search turns out zero results. The terms like home directory seem like they should be so simple for me, but they are not. IS this common knowledge or is the author of that article making too many assumptions of what is common knowledge?

Keith Plucker · 04-26-2008, 01:03 PM

VMWare is a package. If you right click on it you should see "Show Package Contents." This will show you a "Contents" folder and inside that is a "Resources" folder.

Inside the "Resources" folder is another package called "naos-1.0.vmwarevm". Again, right click on that and "Show Package Contents." Inside this package there are two .vmx files, "Importer" and "vadk-base".

Not sure which one you need to edit, probably "vadk-base.vmx". Be sure to back up the file before you edit it.

-Keith

JohnRice · 04-26-2008, 01:14 PM

Programmers tend to assume everyone on earth knows what the home directory is, but few three dimensional people with real lives actually do. The home directory is indicated by a tilde (˜). to get to it, just double click on your boot drive icon on the desktop, select the "Users" folder, and then the folder inside it with your account name. The contents of that folder is the "Home Directory". Usually, you can also go to any finder window, and on the bottom left side will be a House symbol with the account name. Clicking on that will bring up the home directory. This all depends on how you have your system configured to display.

Eric_L · 04-26-2008, 01:25 PM

Thanks Keith - I so never would have figured that out. I have only one .vmx file, but when I tried saving/backing it up the mac says that I cannot access that file - "You do not have appropriate access priviledge." Then it tells me to use finder and 'get info' to get priveleges... but when I do that it only tells me I can only read this file - which I already knew before using finder! Ack! There is no option to assign priveleges that is apparent. There is only one user on this computer.

I'm starting to feel like I'm back relearning XP...

I found the home file OK, but this vmx thing is killin me.

Ken Chan · 04-26-2008, 05:44 PM

I don't have Fusion, but I'm guessing they meant to edit the .vmx for the specific virtual machine definition, not the one baked into the VMWare application package. According to their Knowledge base they are located under your "~/Documents/Virtual Machines". Each VM is probably a package in that directory. So right-click to open the one you want to edit. Hopefully there is just one .vmx immediately visible. Right-click to Open With TextEdit. You may have to select "Other..." to choose TextEdit.

Christian Behrens · 04-29-2008, 09:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eric_L

Then it tells me to use finder and 'get info' to get priveleges... but when I do that it only tells me I can only read this file - which I already knew before using finder! Ack! There is no option to assign priveleges that is apparent. There is only one user on this computer.

I'm starting to feel like I'm back relearning XP...

Don't despair! Despite the fact (as pointed out) that that's probably not the file you should be editing, the privileges of files can be changed by an administrator by clicking on the little lock on the bottom right corner when looking at the rights and privileges in the Information window of a file. Since you say you're the only user on your machine, you MUST have administrator privileges, so you should theoretically be able to do so.

Just FYI.

-Christian



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