How to use the launcher on external hard drive? about arma3-unix-launcher HOT 14 CLOSED

@NightHunter3007
What Mac version do you have exactly?

Config file should be stored at
~/Library/Application Support/.config/a3unixlauncher/settings.conf

If it isn't there, just create it with following content

ArmaPath=/path/where/your/arma/is
WorkshopPath=/path/to/steam/workshop/files

usually it should be something like

ArmaPath=/your/disk/SteamLibrary/common/Arma 3
WorkshopPath=/your/disk/SteamLibrary/workshop/107410

@TriMoon
Unfortunately there are some differences between Linux and Mac, some paths don't exist.

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Then you should probably modify ~/.config/a3unixlauncher/settings.conf and change the value of ArmaPath.

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But how to change the armapath ?

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The file i mentioned above is a configuration file, so you need to edit it and change the value of ArmaPath inside it to reflect the location of your arma3 install....
Because no one besides you knows the exact location of your install, no one will be able to give you a definitive value to put there...
Just use any editor of your choice on linux...

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But my latop is a macbook pro 2018, not a linux

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You didnt tell me that, but np because it still has an Unix operating system 😉
So use any text editor on your Macbook...

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MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports)
And I change use optic+command+c to find the path of my arma 3 file

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Mac Mojave 10.14.6

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@NightHunter3007
Well, I didn't mean that, to make it easier for you you can run this command and it will create the file (just paste it into terminal and click enter)

mkdir -p ~/Library/Application Support/.config/a3unixlauncher
echo "ArmaPath=/Volumes/Hard Disk/Steam games/steamapps/common/Arma 3
WorkshopPath=/Volumes/Hard Disk/Steam games/steamapps/workshop/content/107410" > ~/Library/Application Support/.config/a3unixlauncher/settings.conf

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Thank you for your help and instructions, I can finally install it on my MacBook.
And I have one last question, how to use the launcher?

Should I put the mods in this location?
/Volumes/Hard Disk/Steam games/steamapps/workshop/content/107410

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And I noticed that after I clicked all of the boxes, my steam account has not started downloading anything from the internet.

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You can put your mods in Arma's main directory, that is /Volumes/Hard Disk/Steam games/steamapps/common/Arma 3

So it can be like

/Volumes/Hard Disk/Steam games/steamapps/common/Arma 3/@mod1
/Volumes/Hard Disk/Steam games/steamapps/common/Arma 3/@mod2
/Volumes/Hard Disk/Steam games/steamapps/common/Arma 3/@mod3

And I noticed that after I clicked all of the boxes, my steam account has not started downloading anything from the internet.

Steam should download all the mods, if it doesn't then it's a problem with Steam and I can't do much about it :(

Were you trying to add a new mod? A mod should have 'addons' directory inside it (with .pbo files inside 'addons' directory)

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Closing as stale. Feel free to reopen if issue persists.

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