Problem with Apple computer

I just installed dropbox on my mac (with kolmafia inside it), and kolmafia doesn't seem to be able to read any existing files (such as scripts- showing me just an empty list, and if I try to import a script it shows the folder as empty). I assume there is some sort of permission I need to set but I'm clueless with apple products from after 1990, so hopefully someone can help me figure it all out! Thanks.

Mafia is looking for its files in ~/Library/Application Support/KoLmafia, not in the folder with the jar file in it. You can add -DuseCWDasROOT to the line if you run the jar from Terminal. Or you can make a symbolic link between the Dropbox folder and where mafia expects the files to be.

Awesome, thanks. Got it working with symlinks after some tinkering. Is it going to cause a problem with my PC that I now changed all backslashes to forward slashes (e.g. scripts\login.ash to scripts/login.ash) and if so it there a way around that? (edit: it appears / works just fine on windows)

Current versions of Windows deal with forward slashes just fine. There should be no problem at all just using those instead of the backslashes.