[Wine] moving or renaming .wine folder after installations

[Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI]

On Saturday 01 March 2008, my mailbox was graced by a missive
 from "alfredo" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> who wrote:

> i agree with you but i have the following problem:
> I have installed MS-Trainsimulator in /home/db/.wine-t1. Now I want to move
> due space requirements and for reorganisation the .wine-t1 to /opt. OK, so
> far. The links in dosdevices are relative! Starting the program from the
> new location gives me .... train simulator has a problem .... After some
> checks i found files with the extension .lnk in
> drive_c/windows/profiles/All Users/Desktop/Train Simulator.lnk Inside this
> files are entries like db (the linux home dir) and .wine-t1 (the wine dir).
> These files are not from winecreateprefix or winecfg. They came from the
> trainsimulator-install program. I have made some tests with special dir
> like wine-d1 and wine-d2. After moving and patching 1 to 2 in the .lnk
> files i can restart the simulation in the renamed dir. But this was only a
> simple test because i only change one character! And the .lnk files are
> binary... I don't understand why a windows programs can get information
> about absolute pathes in linux - they should stay in the world of C:!

What about putting .wine anywhere you want, and making ~/.wine a link to 
that ?
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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