[Wine] Using Wine with Windows data

[John Drescher]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 5:20 AM, Usurp <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>
> Alistair wrote:
>> Hi I am new to Wine, but I read in the FAQ the following:
>> 'Do not try to configure Wine to point to your actual Windows C:\ drive. We have tried to make this hard to do so you probably cannot do it by accident.'
>>
>> This does not make sense to me since my primary use would be to run programs under Wine eg Quicken which point to a data file in Windows so that both Windows and Linux access the same data. This is what I thought the settings in Wine were for so that you could define desired directories in your Windows partition to use that data. For example your data does not remain in sync. But of course, thats not so, and its  quite an exercise to make it happen. Any comments?
>
> You have to define another drive.
> Lets point a virtual drive (F: or whatever) to "C:\Documents and Settings\Allistair\My Documents" and continue using your data.
>

I think the biggest point is to never use your real c:\windows as your
c:\windows in wine. But you can definitely share your Documents and
Settings as said above.