Place Timberborn saves in Library, not Documents on macOS

15 votes

I just noticed that Timberborn put its saves in a folder in my Documents folder. This is not conventional on macOS — the Documents folder should be reserved for files which the user chooses to put there (using a save dialog or similar). When an app automatically manages files, they should go in ~/Library/Application Support/Timberborn/ instead.

Under consideration macOS Suggestion Suggested by: Kevin (27 Nov, '21) • Upvoted: 14 Apr • Comments: 3

Comments: 3

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.
04 Feb, '22
Rob
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.
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.