Critical Fix : VINTEL on Mac

[jeffmilton]

I'm getting this error when trying to use Vintel on Mac:

No logs found at: /Users/jeffmilton/Library/Application Support/Eve Online/p_drive/User/My Documents/EVE/logs/Chatlogs

The logs are loaded here now by default. I think this was a cider to wine update:

/Users/jeffmilton/Documents/EVE/logs/Chatlogs

Can we please fix this? I believe the area that needs to be corrected is here:

vintel.py line 64-67:

    if not os.path.exists(chatLogDirectory):
        if sys.platform.startswith("darwin"):
            chatLogDirectory = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), "Library", "Application Support", "Eve Online",
                                      "p_drive", "User", "My Documents", "EVE", "logs", "Chatlogs")

[HendrikPetertje]

+1 on this

[HendrikPetertje]

What i do right now is to open a terminal and type:

cd folder/of/vintel-1.2.3.app/Contents/MacOS
./vintel-1.2.3 ~/Documents/EVE/logs/Chatlogs

This opens Vintel up. now keep that console open for as long as vintel runs. you can check if vintel works by removing the folder ~/Documents/EVE/vintel before you start, then after you have started vintel checking if the folder was recreated on the right place.

[EomarD]

I finally got Vintel to work on Mac despite the changed folder locations.

Workaround: Installed "Sync Folders" (App store, Free) and set up a real-time sync of the folder where Eve now writes log files, with the old folder location Vintel expects to find. Confirmed working.

[Ailang]

There's a much better alternative that Mac and Linux users can also use, it's called a Symbolic Link. It's like shortcuts in Windows.

This is for Mac however:

Terminal is located in Applications-Other->Terminal

• In Terminal, enter: cd /Users/MAC USER NAME/Library/Application\ Support/EVE\ Online/p_drive/User/My\ Documents/EVE/logs
• Before you do the "rm" command make sure that you are in the right place. There is no remorse if you delete the wrong thing. It doesn't use the trash bin, it goes straight to the cpu fan in the form of heat energy.
• To make sure you're in the right place, enter: pwd You should see: /Users/MAC USER NAME/Library/Application Support/EVE Online/p_drive/User/My Documents/EVE/logs
• (optional) Enter this: tar czf OldChatlogs.tar.gz Chatlogs Then this: mv OldChatlogs.tar.gz ~/Documents ^^^ This will create a backup of your old chat logs and move them to your Documents folder.
• Enter this: rm -rf Chatlogs ^^^ This will delete the old folder. So, the previous optional step might be good if you want the old ones kept.
• Enter this: ln -s ln -s "/Users/MAC USER NAME/Documents/EVE/logs/Chatlogs" Chatlogs

To double check that you've done it right, enter this: ls -l You should now see something like this: lrwxr-xr-x 1 staff 40 22 Jan 13:27 Chatlogs -> /Users/MAC USER NAME/Documents/EVE/logs/Chatlogs

(If you're curious what staff means, it's your usergroup. It's like the Administrators group on Windows) - Mac/Linux Tip

I may be wrong, but all of the above should probably work for Linux users as well.

Note: the Chatlogs.tar.gz will be tarred and zipped. You should be able to unzip them and see them with a program like WinRAR in Windows (yes it's compatible) or Winzip. In Mac, you should be able to extract the files with the command: "tar zxvf OldChatlogs.tar.gz ./" (without the quotation marks) in Terminal, after doing: cd ~/Documents. This will create a folder called Chatlogs and put the individual files in there, inside Documents.

[EomarD]

Ailang - I couldn't navigate to the path in terminal... does the Library cause an issue?

In any case, thanks very much for the idea of using symbolic links. I managed to find another way to create one and I can confirm it works perfectly. (although a better fix, obviously, would be for Vintel itself to update the directory paths it is searching)

[Ailang]

I think maybe you didn't have the old Eve client on Mac before, so you have to create all those directories. You should at least be able to do: cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/ mkdir EVE\ Online mkdir EVE\ Online/p_drive mkdir EVE\ Online/p_drive/User mkdir EVE\ Online/p_drive/User/My\ Documents mkdir EVE\ Online/p_drive/User/My\ Documents/EVE mkdir EVE\ Online/p_drive/User/My\ Documents/EVE/logs

For some reason Github is deleting some characters in my command examples. Make sure for every whitespace character in a filename, you add a '\' before the space, this is called an escape character and you need it if you are working in the Terminal and using filenames with spaces. It delineates between a space in a name compared to a second argument of a command (or consecutive arguments passed to a command.) This may be why you can't get to the path. One thing you can also do with commands is use the tab key to auto-fill the filename/path for you. If it doesn't autofill, press tab again and if it beeps then there's no file or folder with that name. If you make a mistake and need to cancel a command entirely, press ctl-c in the terminal. It's like a cancel button in text form.

[EomarD]

Thanks for that. Yes, I think it was the '\' that caused me the issues.