win98 trashed & !$!$ files

[pablito]

This problem happens when you run Internet Explorer using wine.  I think it
renames directories temporarily but if wine crashes you are left with the
renamed directories.
-----Original Message-----
From: g.patel at wanadoo.fr <g.patel at wanadoo.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
To: wine-users at winehq.com <wine-users at winehq.com>
Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: win98 trashed & !$!$ files


>On 22 May 2001 15:56:05 GMT, Walter Polkosnik
><walt at sal.physics.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>Wine (20000213-1) has apparently trashed my win98. Many files seemed to
>>have been moved to directories named !$!$!$!$.*. Windows starts, but
>>almost nothing works since programs have been moved to these to these
>>directories. Any help in fixing the situation will be greatly appreciated.
>
>Basically the idea is that these directories have not changed, only
>an  app has renamed them; so the trick is to rename them (this is from
>the answers to quite a few similar posts, I have never seen the
>problem myself). This problem has prompted the following part
>of the README :
>
>You should backup all your important files that you give Wine access
>to, or use a special Wine copy of them, as there have been some cases
>of users reporting file corruption. Do NOT run Explorer, for instance,
>if you don't have a proper backup, as it renames/cripples several
>directories sometimes.
>
>So if you want to run Explorer or Internet explorer for example, mount
>your fat partition read only.
>
>Gerard
>
>
>
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