[Wine] Caution when deleting .wine ...

[David Shaw]

vitamin wrote:
> David Shaw wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> I was referring to something else. About a year or so ago Wine started to use Trash to remove files to. Before it was just removing them.

In which case, please accept my apologies - I was unaware of that behaviour.

David Shaw