If you run multiple EVE Clients on Windows, you know that you saved overview and fittings will be in your Documents/EVE folder and accessible from all of the clients easily. Unfortunately, this is not the case on the Mac because of Cedega. There is an easy way to unify them, though, through the use of symbolic links.

Creating symbolic links is one through the terminal and is overall a fairly easy process.

The format for creating them is:

ln -s <target> <link name>

If you have multiple clients installed, then hopefully you have already gone through the route of entering the info.plist file and changing the name of the preferences folder. If not, DO THIS NOW! Using the same preferences folders for all of your clients can potentially cause read/write errors when you are running multiples.

Simply right click the EVE.app, select show package contents and double click the info.plist file. You will see this window and need to modify the circled part:

I just add a number after mine, but you can do it however you would like, of course. Save info.plist and close it down. Repeat for each install and launch them individually so the proper preferences folders have been created.

Now that we have fixed your multiple installs, back to the symbolic link. In Finder, press ⇗⌘+G then type

~/Library/Preferences/EVE Online 1 Preferences/p_drive/My Documents/

substituting the EVE Online 1 portion for what you changed it to in the info.plist file, but keeping the word Preferences after it. Tab fill is supported when typing all of that in.

Time to create the symbolic links. Open up Terminal by invoking Quicksilver (you better be using Quicksilver, dammit! [shameless self promotion]). and start typing in the symbolic code above. You cousd cd into a different folder, but I recommend creating your link in root since if you have more than 2 installs you can just copy and paste it around and it makes it easy to find.

After you have typed in

ln -s

go back to Finder and drag the EVE folder into your terminal so you don’t have to type all of that again and the escapes for your spaces are put in automatically, then give the link a name of EVE. You should have something looking much like this:

then just press return. You now have a symbolic link in your root folder pointing to the EVE folder of your first EVE install. Navigate to root in Finder, open a second Finder window, press ⇗⌘+G again and change the EVE Online 1 (or whatever you named your preferences folder) to the preferences folder of your next install, press return, delete the existing EVE folder, and copy and paste in your nice new symbolic link.

What is even better, if you use EFT through Wine, copy your symbolic link into your Documents folder. Wine maps My Documents to Documents and EFT will be able to find your fittings and you can easily save them for import into EVE as well.

Happy linking and unification of Overview and Fittings! (that sounded cheesy, didn’t it)