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How to find your Garry's Mod Folder and the GMad/GMPublish programs

How to find your Garry's Mod folder

  1. Open Steam
  2. Right click on Garry's Mod
  3. Select Properties
  4. Select Local Files
  5. Click Browse

Example Pictures

Properties

Properties



How to find gmad/gmpublish

  1. Open the Garry's Mod folder (follow the steps above)
  2. Go to the bin folder
    • Within this folder, you should find gmad.exe, gmad_linux or something similar on Mac.
    • You should also find gmpublish.exe, gmpublish_linux or something similar on Mac.


How to find your addons folder

  1. Open the Garry's Mod folder (follow the steps above)
  2. Go to the garrysmod folder
  3. Go to the addons folder





On Windows, your paths may look like the following:

  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\bin\gmad.exe
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\bin\gmpublish.exe
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\addons

On Linux, your paths may look like the following:

  • /home/badger/gmod/garrysmod/bin/gmad_linux
  • /home/badger/gmod/garrysmod/bin/gmpublish_linux
  • /home/badger/gmod/garrysmod/garrysmod/addons

On Mac, your paths may look like the following:

  • /Users/Badger/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/garrysmod/bin/gmad_mac
  • /Users/Badger/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/garrysmod/bin/gmpublish_mac
  • /Users/Badger/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/garrysmod/garrysmod/addons
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