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General / Mac question: Working Directory/Rom directory on external volume

« on: December 30, 2023, 08:03:50 PM »

Howdy y'all,

I've got Mame 0.261 setup on an old Mac mini running Catalina that is working well with my X-Arcade Tankstick. The executable, ROM files, and all ancillary files reside on an external hard drive. I thought it would be nice to have Attract Mode handle the front end; however, I cannot seem to get it configured correctly.

I've scanned this forum and googled, but keep striking out.

I've tried using the absolute path

/Volumes/externaldrivename/mamefolder

I've tried making an alias to the Mame folder in my Documents folder and using

$HOME/Documents/mamefolder

and after reading @Hanone's suggestion in the thread at http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=3869.0 I created a symbolic link to the folder in my root directory and used

$HOME/mamefolder

but none of these worked.

What am I overlooking?

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# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.6.1
#
executable           $HOME/mame/./mame
args                 [name]
workdir              $HOME/mame
rompath              $HOME/mame/roms
romext               .zip;.7z
system               Arcade
info_source          listxml
pause_hotkey         $HOME/mame/marquee
artwork    marquee         $HOME/mame/marquee
artwork    snap            $HOME/mame/video;$HOME/mame/snap

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