The Advanced tab

The Advanced tab provides infrequently used bottle options. Most of the settings available here will be automatically set to reasonable defaults.

Make Archive...  This button creates a compressed archive of the selected bottle. It is often prudent to make a backup archive of a bottle before installing new software or modifying bottle settings. Archives can be restored using the Add From Archive... button.

Bottle type.  All bottles, when created, are of type 'private'. A private bottle can only be used by a single user on the system, and is stored in that user's home folder.

A 'managed' bottle is stored in a public directory (In /Library/Application Support/CrossOver/') and can be used by any user of your system. Managed bottles cannot be modified -- any changes that a user makes to the bottle are stored for that user only. The only way to make public changes to a managed bottle is to make a private copy of the bottle, modify the private copy, and then re-publish.

Publish..  The Publish... button makes a managed copy of a selected bottle. You will be prompted for a name for this managed bottle. Once the bottle is copied, all the users of your system will have access to the applications and data in that bottle.

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Any private data that is stored in a bottle's C: drive (for example, passwords, login information, private emails, etc.) will be available to all users on the system. Generally it is best to publish a new bottle before you have configured or used any of the installed applications.

Create a Package From This Bottle..  If you need the ability to distribute a bottle to a large number of systems, you can use the Create a Package option to create a self-contained .rpm, .deb, or .pkg file from a bottle. More information about this can be found in the Installing CrossOver on multiple systems chapter.

Browse C: Drive .  This button will open a file browser window viewing the contents of the current bottle's C: drive.

Use this bottle as the Default for the Command Line.  When this option is checked, the selected bottle will be used to handle Wine commands in the shell, as well as handling most associations and .exe files.