CrossOver bottle "Heroic" does not exist - can't launch (macOS)

[IanDavies]

I have CrossOver and it works just fine (macOS Big Sur 11.6.7) and I'm trying to get Heroic to work with it. Heroic recognises CrossOver as the Wine version, however despite creating a bottle named "Heroic" as per instructions, Heroic reports that it doesn't exist and can't launch: Image link

I've tried various bottle environments (Win 7 64-bit, Win 10 64-bit etc.) but nothing seems to make any difference.
The only slightly non-standard thing is that I have my CrossOver bottle directory on an external drive rather than the default location, but I don't see anywhere in the Heroic interface to specify that. I assumed if CrossOver knew where the bottles were, Heroic would too?

Any suggestions?

[flavioislima]

Being on an external drive should not be an issue.
Try renaming the bottle to Legendary and run an Epic game afterward.

@CommandMC I remember you did some refactoring to check the bottle's existence. Maybe you know better what's happening.

[CommandMC]

Heroic checks if ~/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles/Heroic/cxbottle.conf exists to determine that the bottle is valid. I've tested this on a Mac VM and it worked fine there, and the same check is also done by Legendary (in fact I got that path from its code)

@IanDavies Could you check if the file/folder in question exists?

I assume CX doesn't just symlink the Bottles directory, and instead stores the path in a configuration file somewhere

[IanDavies]

Thanks both of you for looking at this.

So ~/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles/Heroic/cxbottle.conf does exist, however, it's left over from before I changed the bottle directory to an external drive, and all the last modified dates confirm it's not the directory CrossOver is using any more. I followed this guide from Codeweavers, using the defaults write method rather than directly editing the .conf file.

The Crossover directory I changed it to looks like this:
It doesn't look like CrossOver creates a Bottles directory by default, just keeps them in the top level with everything else it creates, but it works.

[CommandMC]

Hm, well, that Bottles directory is what both Heroic and Legendary check for (so even if we would check for the right one, Legendary would still complain)

Could you try running ln -s /path/to/your/new/bottles/dir "~/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles" to symlink the old directory to the new one?

[acryllect]

I'll chime in to revive this thread, I have this same issue. Tried using a symlink to my new bottle directory but it still doesn't recognize the "Heroic" bottle.

[tonicastillo]

The symlink worked for me. thanks