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In 2020 or 2021 I installed a Wineskin wrapper for Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (HOMM3) on my Mac. I now need to back all those files up, but I have issues trying to locate where the save games are actually stored, meaning the folder typically stored in ~/.wine/drive_c/ in standard Wine install. There is no .wine folder, of course.

I have searched all of my $HOME drive for 'AUTOSAVE.CGM' and other save game files, but no go. I have also searched for drive_c and other variations, still no go.

I found the launchers/wrappers in the $HOME/Applications/Wineskin folders, so also tried searching them:

find  ~/Applications/Wineskin/Heroes\ of\ Might\ and\ Magic\ 3\ HD.app/drive_c/ -iname '*cgm'

No go. It is like it is on some shadow drive?

$ find . -iname '*cgm'
$ find . -iname '*h3m' | wc -l
     159
$ pwd
/Users/myuser/Applications/Wineskin/Heroes of Might and Magic 3 HD.app/drive_c
$ du -chs .
1.2G    .
1.2G    total

To be honest, I don't really remember installing Wineskin myself, and the recommended installation of using Homebrew should list something when doing brew list right? But it does not. So either it is Crossover (doubt it) or Wineskin. From folder names, definitely looks like the latter, but I could also just have gotten a finished wrapper. The problem of locating the drive remains, either way :)

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    Did you (with Finder or Terminal/ls) look into Applications/Wineskin/Heroes*HD.app/drive_c/? Is there anything stored there at all?
    – nohillside ♦
    Commented Dec 26, 2022 at 10:24
  • @nohillside As I wrote above, I used the find command to try and locate any save game files there. None were found. There are lots of other files, though, including the install files (1.2GB according to du). Like drive_c/GOG Games/HoMM 3 Complete/
    – Wombat
    Commented Dec 27, 2022 at 11:19
  • Can you run the game and does it find the saved files?
    – mmmmmm
    Commented Dec 27, 2022 at 11:31
  • I got it. I have out-tricked myself using symlinks. I will update the question and add an answer.
    – Wombat
    Commented Dec 27, 2022 at 11:45

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Since you say this was years ago, I expect you installed Wineskin, not WineskinServer. For the former:

Wrappers made here are placed by default in...

~/Applications/Wineskin (where ~ means your home folder)

https://web.archive.org/web/20130906024045/http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/tiki-index.php?page=Manual+2.3+Wrappers

You could have placed it anywhere though.

The drive_c folder inside the wrapper should contain your files.

drive_c is a folder that all Windows apps run from this wrapper will see as the computers C: drive.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140825110833/http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/tiki-index.php?page=Manual+3.1+A+look+Inside+a+Wrapper

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  • Sorry, I was exaggerating ... This was 2020 or 2021. But the location is right, as you can see from my post which lists $HOME/Applications/Wineskin. Unfortunately, only the install files (Windows + game files) are there, 1.2GB in total, but the save games seems to be stored elsewhere? Is it possible that there is some kind overlay filesystem for user files that stores user generated files somewhere else? The save games would normally have been stored in %AppData%/Local/... in the user's home directory.
    – Wombat
    Commented Dec 27, 2022 at 11:26
  • I found the answer. Updating.
    – Wombat
    Commented Dec 27, 2022 at 11:45
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My question had a big issue: the title was not reflecting what I was looking for ... I was wondering why the save games for HOMM3 was not anywhere to be found in the ~/Applications/$MyApp.app/drive_c location, but it turns out they kind of were and kind of were not.

It is like it is on some shadow drive?

My comment was spot on. They were not physically there, only logically:

idas-imac:drive_c $ find . -type l -print0 | xargs -0  ls -lh
lrwxrwxrwx  1 idaangelweum  staff    44B Feb 17  2021 ./GOG Games/HoMM 3 Complete/Games -> /Users/ida/Dropbox/Savegames/HOMM3/

Turns out that I had forgotten that I had replaced the Games folder with a symbolic link to a folder for save games in Dropbox and forgotten about it 🙈 This explains why the find command could not find it, since it does not follow symbolic links into other directories.

So awarding the answer to @grg, as he did in fact answer the question to where the files were.

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