Place Timberborn saves in Library, not Documents on macOS

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• 04 Feb, '22
  Rob

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  I returned it just because of this. I didn't want to give a game access to my documents folder and didn't want to have a random folder there.

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• 01 Jan, '22
  Marc

  This happened to me in Windows as well: After several days of playing, Timberborn started expecting to find files in C:\Users\Me\Documents\Timberborn\Saves.
  I moved my old save files from steamapps\common\Timberborn\Timberborn\Saves, and I could continue to play my games, but now I can't save because of permissions/space issues (the game is installed in another drive).
  This started happening today 1/1/2022, I don't know why.

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• 04 Sep, '22
  Tommi

  I would add that with more recent macOS versions the Documents folder is protected and requires the user to explicitly allow / add permissions to apps to save files there. And if you're a bit security conscious you may start thinking a game should definitely _not_ have permissions to all the _other_ files in the Documents folder.

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• 04 Oct, '25
  PunkPun

  All applications use the `~/Library/Application\ Support` as a matter of convention.
  
  Poor mac ports sometimes place it in various places:
  Zotero saves everything in `~/`
  BattleTech saves in `~/`
  VMWare saves in `~/`
  Don't Starve saves everything in `~/Documents`
  
  Some applications save in `~/Library/Preferences`
  The vast majority save in `~/Library/Application\ Support`
  Some use both of the above

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