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First post, by music_scoring

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Hi,

I'm running macOS 10.14.6 and DOSBox 0.74-3 and was having difficulty loading custom .conf files from the command line. I tried both of these:

open -a dosbox --args -conf custom.conf
open -a dosbox --args -conf ./custom.conf

where I was trying to launch DOSBox from the directory containing custom.conf. In either case, DOSBox would launch but instead load the default conf file in

~/Library/Preferences/DOSBox 0.74-3-3 Preferences 

However, the following does work:

open -a dosbox --args -conf ~/path/to/my/dosbox/files/custom.conf 

Anyway, not sure why this is happening, but it certainly was confusing. Maybe this info will be useful to others.

Reply 1 of 1, by Madd the Sane

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Most likely it's due to app translocation, especially if you downloaded DOSBox.