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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jul 10, 2015 at 03:20 PM

I just bought a copy and am already running ConnectedText on my Mac with it. Just FYI for anyone considering Crossover, which allows you to run many Windows applications on the Mac without installing Windows in a virtual machine.

Steve Z.

Posted by Paul Korm
Jul 10, 2015 at 03:37 PM

Thanks for the update—I’ve been considering this purchase for a while for exactly the reason of running ConnectedText. Went ahead and bought it.

Before installing ConnectedText though I wonder if anyone here has this same situation:

I run ConnectedText (with several projects in progress) on a Parallels Windows 8 VM on this same machine where I installed CrossOver. As I understand it—I need to reinstall a separate instance of ConnectedText in a CrossOver “bottle” (seems like an odd term). I assume further, then, that I will need to move my the ConnectedText data out of the Windows hierarchy within the VM into the OS X file system and then link the Windows instance of ConnectedText to that new location on disk—so that both the CrossOver instance and the Windows instance can access the same data.

The reason for all this is that I frequently crank up the Windows VM just to access ConnectedText and with CrossOver I won’t have to do that. I could uninstall ConnectedText from Windows, but I don’t think I want to do that because I sometimes need connectivity to data for other apps in that environment.

Any thoughts?

Posted by Prion
Jul 13, 2015 at 01:39 PM

Interesting. If run inside Crossover, do all the plugins, scripts etc work, too?
I tried the same a long time ago (Crossover v8 or 9, I believe) and there was no way to link to items or produce aliases of items in the “other” filesystem.
Is that working now?

Thanks for the heads-up
Prion

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
I just bought a copy and am already running ConnectedText on my Mac with
>it. Just FYI for anyone considering Crossover, which allows you to run
>many Windows applications on the Mac without installing Windows in a
>virtual machine.
> >Steve Z.

Posted by Paul Korm
Jul 13, 2015 at 05:09 PM

Sorry for my longer post, above. Self-help answered my questions. After fiddling with CrossOver and CT I dropped the idea and went back to running CT natively in a Windows machine. The process of hooking into things like native-Mac URL schemes (for DEVONthink, etc.) and getting any kind of good typography out of CrossOver was just too twitchy.

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