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EDIT: I fixed it, but I will leave it here in case anyone else needs it too. 

I'm a newbie in modding, so "game folder" does not mean where OSX stores your saves; it means you have to Open Package and drill down inside the executable until you reach ~/Documents/Baldur's Gate II - Enhanced Edition/Baldur's Gate II Enhanced Edition.app/Contents/Resources and then run MWL from there, with the mods. 

Original post below: 

I need to start saying how immensely grateful I am to @subtledoctor for MWL. I have been playing for 20 years and I never modded, and I would have taken 10 more without your kindness. Nowadays I wear glasses to actually see the game... Better now than later for sure.

I carefully read everything here, and I even copied the BG2EE executable file to the game's foder, which is inside ~/Documents. But this terminal message makes me stuck. 

The chitin.key file is there indeed, in ~/Documents/Baldur's Gate II - Enhanced Edition/Baldur's Gate II Enhanced Edition.app/Contents/Resources.

I wonder what else I could do. I'm on Mac OS 12.0.1.

Thank you!
 

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The default interactive shell is now zsh.

To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`.

For more details, please visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT208050.

/Users/elminster/Documents/Baldur\'s\ Gate\ II\ -\ Enhanced\ Edition/Mac_Weidu_Launcher_v7.app/Contents/Resources/mwl.command ; exit;

This-iMac:~ elminster$ /Users/elminster/Documents/Baldur\'s\ Gate\ II\ -\ Enhanced\ Edition/Mac_Weidu_Launcher_v7.app/Contents/Resources/mwl.command ; exit;

[./weidu] WeiDU version 24700

ERROR: Unable to find CHITIN.KEY in:

.

.

..

../..

../../..

/

FATAL ERROR: Failure("Unable to find CHITIN.KEY: run me in an Infinity Engine game directory")

logout

 

On 8/15/2021 at 4:20 PM, subtledoctor said:

I and others have been using MacOS to play the games, mod the games, and create mods for Windows users (you're welcome) for many many years.

Wow this is so great. I am truly grateful @subtledoctor

Thank you @jastey and @Sam.

I will venture forth! 

Maybe this is the best place to ask -- forgive me if it isn't -- but after 20 years of vanilla adventuring, I am ready for BG mods. I read many tutorials, studied and was ready for it, until macOS Big Sur forbade me from, well, doing anything. Two questions, 

1. If I learn to compile from GitHub, will it help?

2. Could anyone point me toward a tutorial for modding that would work with such restrictive OS? 

Many, many, many thanks.