[Wine] Caution when deleting .wine ...

David Shaw dj.shaw at btconnect.com
Thu Apr 17 08:19:59 CDT 2008


John Drescher wrote:
>>  At the risk of getting flamed, you yourself have often told people to 'rm
>> -rf ~/.wine'
>>
>>     
> Doing that will not follow symlinks.
>
> John

Surely dragging and dropping files into the trash or simply deleting 
them in nautilus shouldn't follow symlinks either, which, so far as I 
can tell, was what was happening with the reported bug  :-)

I was merely trying to point out that the idea "to move files into trash 
instead of letting Wine to safely remove them?" is one that is fairly 
regularly suggested here.

David Shaw



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