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getting started in fg, part 2: fantasy grounds on a mac (wine)
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fantasy grounds (fg) is native to windows, but you have a mac?
no worries. you can use fg on your mac!
here's a guide to get fg on your mac using a virtual windows environment called wine. this free app allows windows apps to run on your mac with little fuss and tech intimidation.
(tested and working on mac os x 10.9.2 maverick)
got wine?
you may be in one of these situations:
- have never installed wine nor fantasy grounds -- follow all steps
- have already tried to install wine and fg before and it did not work -- follow all steps
- have installed wine but have never installed fantasy grounds -- follow step 3
1. fresh start / uninstall wine (skip if wine was never installed)
purge any previous wine installation
- quit wine
- completely move these folders/files to trash:
- applications/wine (app)
- applications/winebottler (app)
- users/[your account]/library/caches/org.kronenberg.wine (folder) *
- users/[your account]/library/application support/wine (folder) *
- users/[your account]/library/preferences/org.kronenberg.wine.plist *
- empty trash
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* if your library is hidden, go to apple finder menu at top of screen,
- select: go > go to folder...
- enter in the location window that pops up: ~/Library
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really quit out any wine process
- open activity monitor: applications/utilities
- find and select any process name containing "wine"
- go to view menu and select "quit process" (do for any wine still opened -- may have to "quit process" a couple of times before it actually quits)
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purge wine preferences (as well as fg if previously installed)
- find and delete this folder: [your user account]/wine files
- drag the whole directory to trash
- empty trash