I am at a loss with finding this file, perhaps I don't have one, but if anyone knows the path to profile.bin for a Mac running Borderlands 2 on Steam, I will be very grateful. The profile.bin file stores all data regarding external storage and items outside of the character's inventory like the vault, claptrap's stash, and golden keys.
I was hopeful that I'd be able to download and boot up Borderlands 2 on my mac this morning to the grand sight of all the characters I'd created on the PC version happily waiting for me. Unfortunately, that was not the case.Edit: the offical word from Aspyr is that steam cloud sync between Mac and PC will not occur:The Steam Clouds are separate since the PC and Mac will be out of sync as far as versions are concerned.So, given that this doesn't happen automatically, is there a way I can copy some files from my PC (bootcamp) to my mac and keep my character progress?
It's not something I want to do more than once. In order to sync your files you need to copy all the save files from this location in Windows:C:UsersMYNAMEDocumentsMy Games/Borderlands 2WillowGameSaveData5478513To this location in OS XUsers/MYNAME/Library/Application Support/Borderlands 2/WillowGame/SaveData/5478513/Note: the folder /5478513/ may be named differently on your machine. If the Library folder is hidden in OS X, go up to Go in the menu bar, hold alt/option and Library should appear. Alternatively, click on Go to Folder and paste in the following:/Library/Application Support/Borderlands 2/WillowGame/SaveData.
Borderlands 2 Character File Location List
The mac saves are, by default:'Users -%username% - Library - Preferences - Feral Interactive - Borderlands - SaveData'and the windows saves are, by default:C:Users%USERNAME%DocumentsMy GamesBorderlands 2WillowGameSaveData(Random Numbers)(in both cases,%username% should be replaced with your user name).I don't know if they are compatible between mac and windows versions (I doubt it, even if they use the same naming scheme), but it may be as simple as copying the windows saves and placing them in the mac folder. If it doesn't work, you can simply remove them. I am doubtful, but I don't know either way. On the one hand: this is an Unreal engine game, so save games may be handled in a portable way. On the other hand, the mac version was ported by a different developer and there may be implementation changes which invalidate saves between versions.
Things like 'serialization' of program objects during the save process (if they happen at all for borderlands) could/would break compatibility AFAIK if those object definitions are altered during the porting to mac os.–Nov 20 '12 at 22:17. Steam Cloud saves were out of sync for the first few versions of the mac release and settings never did, and never will sync across the two platforms, due to the way in which GearBox created the settings files. Saves on the other hand now should sync properly.Of course, you might not want to rely on this for day to day play on two separate platforms, because sometimes the saves stop syncing when patches are applied to the game, as occasionally the Mac and Linux patches can be delayed.If you want to create a file link on a file server or across partitions, you can link the save files from the two platforms into their appropriate place, do NOT link the entire 'Borderlands 2' player settings directory, as the configuration files have slight changes between the two platforms.