[MCL-1915] Can't use other game folders then standard "minecraft"-Folder on OSX

As you can see in the attached screenshot the Minecraft-Launcher loads the game from the wrong Game Directory.

In the selected profile I changed the Game Directory to:
"/Users/patrick/Library/Application Support/minecraft_latest"

But as you can see in the screenshot, the launcher starts minecraft from the following directory:
"/Users/patrick/Library/Application Support/minecraft/"

So it is not possible to create more profiles with different minecraft versions, because the launcher always chose the standard "minecraft" folder as Game Directory!

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MCL-446 Launcher unnecessarily downloads assets, libraries and versions folders after changing Minecraft directory

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migrated 2013-12-06T13:19:43Z

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Torabi 2013-12-06T23:23:57Z

The Game Directory setting is just for things like configuration and saves. The whole point is to avoid duplicating unnecessary files, while still allowing for isolated game environments. So things like libraries, which is what the line you have highlighted applies to, are supposed to be shared between different profiles, even when they have their own directory specified.

This is why there's a separate command-line argument for the launcher, to allow you to specify a different base game directory from the default. They have different purposes.

migrated 2013-12-07T10:35:06Z

Hey! First of all thanks for answering so fast!

Oh shit I totally miss understood how this function works!
So minecraft shares the libraries with all the different minecraft versions and only stores things like savegames separately?
Now I understand.
I'm sorry that I marked this as an issue.
Please tell me how to delete this issue cause I don't really see any option.

Thanks again for your answer and sorry for this unnecessary issue report.

Torabi 2013-12-07T14:45:59Z

Don't worry about it. It's not terribly well documented, but that's basically how it works. Everything that is shared between profiles (libraries, game versions, resources) is stored in the base minecraft directory, which can be specified with a command-line argument to the launcher if you don't like the OS-dependent default, while things that might reasonably be specific to a profile (saves, configuration) are stored in the game directory specified in the profile settings.

There's no way for users to delete issues. This will just get marked as "Invalid" or "Works As Intended" when the next mod comes along. Glad I was able to clear some things up for you.